Agaricus Muscarius agar.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

SPINAL AXIS: OCCIPUT. NERVES. Lumbar region. Peristalsis. Heart. Circulation. Respiration. Chest.

Worse

Air: COLD. FREEZING. OPEN. Stormy. Exhaustion: Mental. Coition. Debauchery. Alcohol. Pressure. Touch. Morning. During menses.

Better

Gentle motion.

General

Gradual onset . Many symptoms (Tub.). IRREGULAR, ANGULAR, UNCERTAIN AND EXAGGERATED MOTIONS ( Ign.); he reaches too far, staggers or steps too high, drops things, etc. TREMBLING, TWITCHING, JERKING or fibrillar spasm; here and there; < EYELIDS or tongue. Shuddering. Nervous and restless. Chorea. As of cold needles, a cold drop or a weight on parts. Painful twitching, then parts stiff and cold.

Particulars

Hilarious or dull and dizzy; as if drunk. Turns head to and fro. Headache, > after stool or urine. Oscillating eyeballs. Gum in canthi. Musca volitantes. Angle of mouth droops. As of a lump in epigastrium. Rumbling and fermenting in bowels. Hot flatus or semen; cold urine. Isolated coughing attacks, then sneezing; as if from spine; easy expectoration of flocculi or balls of mucus. Indistinct, jerky speech. Palpitation during coition; depressed afterward. Premature ejaculation. Pressure or burning sticking from heart to left scapula. Angina pectoris, has excessive pain only. Metastases from suppressed milk. Single vertebra sensitive to heat. Spine sensitive, > pressure or touch; shooting, burning along; seems short (Sul.), < stooping; stiff. Restless arms. BURNING-ITCHING (Ap.), < IN SKIN; AS IF FROZEN; changing place on scratching. Skin pains when cold. Chilblains. Yawning; before pains or spasms; as a concomitant. Chills or sweats easily. Sweats on alternate sides. Night sweats. Itching, over affected part. Cold buttocks.

Related

Antidotes: Coff. Pul. Complementary: Calc-c. Related: Phys. Tub.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

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Keynote

Persons with light hair; skin and muscles lax. Old people with weak, indolent circulation. Drunkards, especially for their headaches; bad effects after a debauch (Lob., Nux, Ran.). Delirium: with constant raving; tries to get out of bed; in typhoid or typhus. Headaches: of those who readily become delirious in fever or with pain (Bell.); of persons subject to chorea, twitchings or grimaces; from spinal affections. Chilblains, that itch and burn intolerably; frostbite and all consequences of exposure to cold, especially in face. Involuntary movements while awake, cease during sleep; chorea, form simple motions and jerks of single muscles to dancing of whole body; trembling of whole body (twitching of muscles of face, Myg.). Sensation as if ice touched or ice-cold needles were piercing the skin; as from hot needles. Burning, itching, redness of various parts; ears, nose, face, hands and feet; parts red, swollen, hot. Uncertainty in walking, stumbles over everything in the way; heels pain as if beaten, when standing. Spine sensitive to touch (Ther.); worse mornings. Pain: sore, aching, in lumbar and sacral regions; during exertion in the day time; while sitting (Zinc.). Spinal irritation due to sexual excesses (Kali p.). Nervous prostration after sexual debauches. Epilepsy from suppressed eruptions (Psor., Sulph.). Every motion, every turn of body, causes pain in spine. Single vertebra sensitive to touch. Prolapsus, post-climacteric; bearing-down pain almost intolerable (compare, Lilium, Murex, Sepia). Exteremely sensitive to cold air (Cal., Kali c., Psor.). Complaints appear diagonally; upper left and lower right side (Ant. t., Stram. - upper right, lower left, Ambr., Brom., Med., Phos., Sul. ac.).

Relations

Similar; to, Act., Cal., Can. Ind., Hyos., Kali p., Lach., Nux, Op., Stram., in delirium of alcoholism; to, Myg., Tar., Zinc., in chorea.

Aggravation

After eating; after coitus; cold air; mental application; before a thunder-storm (Phos., Psor.).

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General

This remedy is exceedingly rich in symptoms in almost every organ and function of the body. The confirmations of these symptoms are not yet so very numerous, but they are worthy of close study and observation. I am always well rewarded in its study and use when I find cropping out, itching, redness and burning, on any part of the body, as if frost-bitten or burning and itching of internal parts. Chilblains. It is a remedy of great value in typhus fever, also in St. Vitus' dance, etc.

Mental

Much out of humour and declines to answer questions. Quite indifferent. Disinclination to work. Delirium, tries to get out of bed. Delirium constant, knows no one, throws things at the nurse. Delirium tremens. Sings, talks, but does not answer questions. Morose, self-willed, stubborn, slow in learning to walk and talk.

Head

Reeling and staggering to and fro when walking in open air. Dull headache, obliging him to move the head constantly to and fro, and to close the eyes. Twitches in the skin of the forehead above the right eyes. Sensation of coldness as of ice, on the scalp, right side of the frontal bone. Pain as from a nail in the right side of the head. The head constantly falling backwards, as if a weight were attached to the occiput. Lies almost unconscious though he could be roused for a moment when questioned. Throbbing and beating headache with a sensation of stiffness of the muscles of the face. Dull, drawing headache in the morning, extending into the root of the nose, with nosebleed or thick mucus discharge. Headaches in those subject to chorea, or who readily become delirious in fever or with pain; twitchings or grimaces. Head in constant motion. Vertigo in bright light. Tinea capitis, with crusts sometimes spreading to other parts of the body.

Eyes

Twitching and trembling of the eyelids. Narrowing of the interval between the lids, as if half open eyes. Twitches and spasms of the eyeballs, with aching pain. Dimsightedness, everything seems obscured. He reads with difficulty, because the type seem to move. Much burning and itching in the eyes and agglutination. Angles of the eyes much affected, itch and burn and look red. Muscæ volitantes. Strabismus. As soon as she opens her eyes in the morning both eyeballs begin to revolve toward the right and left, with a velocity of half a second, almost constantly, the whole day. Blisters and ulcers on the cornea, eyes inflamed, with lachrymation.

Ears

Burning and itching in ears. Redness, burning itching of the ears, as if they had been frozen. Itching behind the ears.

Nose

Bleeding of the nose, particularly of old people. Profuse fetid discharge from the nose, sometimes dark and bloody. On blowing the nose, early in the morning blood comes out of it; followed by violent bleeding. Burning itching redness of the nose.

Face

Redness of, with itching and burning. Twitching of the muscles of, lasting all day. Blue and puffed, in epilepsy. Lancinating, tearing and drawing pain in right cheek. Paralysis of, so that one or both corners of the mouth drop down, allowing the saliva to run out upon the pillow. Itching, burning, redness of, as if it had been frozen.

Mouth

Swelling of the gums. Tongue is coated white. Shooting from right lower teeth up to left side of the head. Inarticulate speech. Tongue dry. Phagedenic ulcers on the ligament of the tongue, mercurial aphthæ on the roof of the mouth and tongue. Frequently suffering from aphthæ, want of appetite, diarrhœa. Burning thirst.

Throat

Throws up small flocculi or solid balls of phlegm, almost without cough. Sensation of dryness of the pharynx, causing contraction there, as when drinking liquids.

Stomach

Frequent empty eructations; or with taste of apples; or with the taste of rotten eggs. Nausea--inclination to vomit. Vomiting. Much pain in the stomach.

Abdomen

Sharp, needle-like pains in region of the liver. Pinching below the umbilicus. Meteorism and distention of the abdomen. Rumbling of wind and passing of large quantities. Sensation of writhing in the abdomen.

Stool

Diarrhœa, with violent pinching in abdomen; with the passage of large quantities of wind. Dysenteric flux. Very hard and difficult stools. Diarrhœa of children, with grass-green, bilious stools. Fetid stools.

Urine

Effusion of viscid, glutinous mucus from the urethra; clear lemon-colored urine. The urine passes at intervals and dribbles away. Urine profuse and colorless.

Sexual

Male: Great desire for an embrace, the penis being relaxed. After emission, pain and weakness in the thighs. During coition: burning in urethra; most painful with the ejaculation; insufficient ejaculation, or very late; voluptuous ecstasy wanting. After coitus: loss of appetite, lassitude for several days, night-sweats. Complaints after sexual debauches. Old gleets and other sequelæ of gonorrhœa. Female: Very strong bearing-down pain, almost unbearable. Strong desire for an embrace, with itching and irritation. Complaints following parturition; nipples itch, bum, look red; lochia continues, metastases of milk to the brain, abdominal troubles, etc.

Chest

Constant irritation to cough, which can mostly be suppressed, but if not, several violent shocks of cough succeed each other. The cough appears in isolated attacks, and is very violent, often terminates in paroxysms of sneezing. Long-lasting cough and pus-like sputa. Can't sing from a scratching in throat. One is constrained to make deep inspirations, occasionally, in order to be able to continue the function of respiration. Sense of oppression at the cardiac region, as if the cavity of the thorax were narrowed. Jerking stitches through the right lung. Oppression in the lower part of the chest with drawing pains. Inflammation, tuberculosis and consumption of the lungs.

Heart and Pulse

Very weak, unequal, intermittent pulse. Palpitation of the heart, particularly in the evening.

Neck and Back

Stiffness in the nape of the neck. Pain in the back as after continual stooping. The muscles of the back feel bruised, and seem too short on stooping. Spasmodic and drawing pain, which starts from the back, and extends into the middle of the chest and into the œsophagus. Violent shooting, burning pains deep in the spine. Pain in the sacrum, a sort of crick, extending the whole length of the spine to the nape of the neck. A painful sensation in spinal column on stooping as if it were too weak to support the body. Sensation as if ants were creeping along the spine. Increased painfulness of the spinal column at every motion of the body. The whole spinal column is exceedingly sensitive to touch. A sudden and violent stitch comes in the sacrum whilst walking in open air.

Extremities

Frequent jumping of the muscles of the extremities. She feels as if her limbs did not belong to her. Irregular and hurried movements of the upper extremities. Painful drawings along the muscles of the arms. Tremor of the hands. Itching, redness, and burning of the hands and fingers, as from frost-bites. Trembling of the hands. Stiffness in fingers from gout. Much pain in the hips. Weight in the legs, they feel weary; much pain in, relieved by walking; feel so tired and heavy, can hardly lift them. Itching, burning, and redness of toes or feet, as if frozen. Cramp in the soles of the feet at night. Complaints of spin-bore. Frozen limbs and burned places with concomitant symptoms.

Skin

Burning, itching, redness and swelling as from frostbites. Miliary eruptions. Itching and burning all over the body, causing great distress.

Fever

Shivering through the body from above downwards. Easy chilliness on slight movement. Much heat, burning all over; air getting under bedclothes causes chilliness. Not much thirst is found in this remedy.

Sleep

As a rule sleeps badly and unrefreshingly.

Generalities

Convulsions. Frequent jumping of the muscles in different parts of the body. Symptoms appear diagonally, e.g., pain in the right arm and left leg, or vice versa. General trembling. Great weakness and weariness and uncomfortable feeling in the body. Uncertainty in walking, tumbling over everything in the way. In reaching for an object, it is usually missed. Chattering of jaws and trembling of limbs. Twitching of eyelids, eyeballs, cheeks, chest and abdomen. Involuntary movements of children when awake, ceasing during sleep. Jerking, twitching, chattering, and trembling seem to be strong characteristics. Chorea.

Remedies following

Bellad., Calc. carb., Mercur., Opium, Pulsat., Rhus tox., Silic.

Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica

J. W. Hutchison · Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica · rewritten from Hering's and other materia medicas

Red line symptom

Painfulness and violent burning, shooting pains in spinal column. Spinal column sensitive to touch. Sensation as if ants were creeping along the spine. Violent muscular twitching and jumping, as if caused by a galvanic current. Burning, Itching and redness of various parts as if frostbitten. Sensation in various parts as if ice touched or as if ice-cold needles were piercing the skin.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Toad Stool-Bug Agaric (AGARICUS MUSCARIUS-AMANITA)

General

This fungus contains several toxic compounds, the best known of which is Muscarin. The symptoms of poisoning do not develop at once, usually twelve to fourteen hours elapse before the initial attack. There is no antidote, treatment, entirely symptomatic (Schneider). Agaricus acts as an intoxicant to the brain, producing more vertigo and delirium than alcohol, followed by profound sopor with lowered reflexes.

Jerking, twitching, trembling, and itching are strong indications. Incipient phthisis; is related to the tubercular diathesis, anæmia, chorea, twitching ceases during sleep. Various forms of neuralgia and spasmodic affections, and neurotic skin troubles are pictured in the symptomatology of this remedy. It corresponds to various forms of cerebral excitement rather than congestion. Thus, in delirium of fevers, alcoholism, etc. General paralysis. Sensation as if pierced by needles of ice. Sensitive to pressure and cold air. Violent bearing-down pains. Symptoms appear diagonally as right arm and left leg. Pains are accompanied by sensation of cold, numbness and tingling.

Mind

Sings, talks, but does not answer. Loquacity. Aversion to work. Indifference. Fearlessness. Delirium characterized by singing, shouting, and muttering; rhymes and prophesies. Begins with paroxysm of yawning.

The provings bring out four phases of cerebral excitement.

1. Slight stimulation-shown by increased cheerfulness, courage, loquacity, exalted fancy.

2. More decided intoxication-great mental excitement and incoherent talking, immoderate gaity alternates with melancholy. Perception of relative size of objects is lost, takes long steps and jumps over small objects as if they were trunks of trees-a small hole appears as a frightful chasm, a spoonful of water an immense lake. Physical strength is increased, can lift heavy loads. With it much twitching.

3. Third stage produces a condition of furious or raging delirium, screaming, raving, wants to injure himself, etc.

4. Fourth stage-mental depression, languor, indifference, confusion, disinclination to work, etc. We do not get the active cerebral congestion of Belladonna, but a general nervous excitement such as is found in delirium tremens, delirium of fevers, etc.

Head

Vertigo from sunlight, and on walking. Head in constant motion. Falling backward, as if a weight in occiput. Lateral headache, as if from a nail (Coff; Ignat). Dull headache from prolonged desk-work. Icy coldness, like icy needles, or splinters. Neuralgia with icy cold head. Desire to cover head warmly (Silica). Headache with nose-bleed or thick mucous discharge.

Eyes

Reading difficult, as type seems to move, to swim. Vibrating specters. Double vision (Gels), dim and flickering. Asthenopia from prolonged strain, spasm of accommodation. Twitching of lids and eyeballs (Codein). Margins of lids red; itch and burn and agglutinate. Inner angles very red.

Ears

Burn and itch, as if frozen. Twitching of muscles about the ear and noises.

Nose

Nervous nasal disturbances. Itching internally and externally. Spasmodic sneezing after coughing; sensitiveness; watery non-inflammatory discharge. Inner angles very red. Fetid, dark, bloody discharge. Nosebleed in old people. Sensation of soreness in nose and mouth.

Face

Facial muscles feel stiff; twitch; face itches and burns. Lancinating, tearing pain in cheeks, as of splinters. Neuralgia, as if cold needles ran through nerves or sharp ice touched them.

Mouth

Burning and smarting on lips. Herpes on lips. Twitching. Taste sweet. Aphthæ on roof of mouth. Splinter like pains in tongue. Thirsty all the time. Tremulous tongue (Lach). Tongue white.

Throat

Stitches along eustachian tube to ear. Feels contracted. Small solid balls of phlegm thrown up. Dryness of pharynx, swallowing difficult. Scratching in throat; cannot sing a note.

Stomach

Empty eructations, tasting of apples. Nervous disturbances, with spasmodic contractions, hiccough. Unnatural hunger. Flatulent distention of stomach and abdomen. Profuse inodorous flatus. Burning in stomach about three hours after a meal, changing into a dull pressure. Gastric disturbance with sharp pains in liver region.

Abdomen

Stitching pains in liver, spleen (Ceanothus) and abdomen. Stitches under short ribs, left side. Diarrhœa with much fetid flatus. Fetid stools.

Urinary

Stitches in urethra. Sudden and violent urging to urinate. Frequent urination.

Female

Menses, increased, earlier. Itching and tearing, pressive pains of genitals and back. Spasmodic dysmenorrhœa. Severe bearing-down pains, especially after menopause. Sexual excitement. Nipples itch, burn. Complaints following parturition and coitus. Leucorrhœa, with much itching.

Respiratory Organs

Violent attacks of coughing that can be suppressed by effort of will, worse eating, pain in head while cough lasts. Spasmodic cough at night after falling asleep, with expectoration of little balls of mucus. Labored, oppressed breathing. Cough ends in a sneeze.

Heart

Irregular, tumultuous palpitation, after tobacco. Pulse intermittent and irregular. Cardiac region oppressed, as if thorax were narrowed. Palpitation with redness of face.

Back

Pain, with sensitiveness of spine to touch; worse in dorsal region. Lumbago; worse in open air. Crick in back. Twitching of cervical muscles.

Extremities

Stiff all over. Pain over hips. Rheumatism better motion. Weakness in loins. Uncertain gait. Trembling. Itching of toes and feet as if frozen. Cramp in soles of feet. Pain in shin-bone. Neuralgia in locomotor ataxia. Paralysis of lower limbs, with spasmodic condition of arms. Numbness of legs on crossing them. Paralytic pain in left arm followed by palpitation. Tearing painful contractions in the calves.

Skin

Burning, itching, redness, and swelling, as from frostbites. Pimples, hard, like flea-bites. Miliary eruption, with intolerable itching and burning. Chilblains. Angioneurotic œdema; rosacea. Swollen veins with cold skin. Circumscribed erythematous, papular and pustular and œdematous lesions.

Sleep

Paroxysms of yawning. Restless from violent itching and burning. On falling asleep, starts, twitches, and awakes often. Vivid dreams. Drowsy in daytime. Yawning, followed by involuntary laughter.

Fever

Very sensitive to cool air. Violent attacks of heat in evening. Copious sweat. Burning spots.

Modalities

Worse, open cold air, after eating, after coitus. In cold weather, before a thunder-storm. Worse, pressure on dorsal spine, which causes involuntary laughter. Better, moving about slowly.

Relationship

Compare: Muscarine, the alkaloid of Agaricus (has much power over secretions, increasing lachrymal, salivary, hepatic, etc, but diminishing renal; probably neurotic in origin, stimulating the terminal fibers of the secretory nerves of all these structures, hence salivation, lachrymation and excessive perspiration. Atropin exactly opposes Muscarine. Resembles Pilocarpin in action). Amanita vernus-spring mushroom-a variety of Agar Phalloides-Death cup-active principle is Phallin, active like Muscarine. Amanita phalloides (Death Cup-Deadly Agaric). The poison is a toxalbumin, resembling the poison in the rattle snake and the poison excreted by the cholera and diphtheria germs. It acts on the red blood corpuscles, dissolving them so that blood escapes into the alimentary canal and the whole system is drained. The amount of this toxic principle is small, even handling of specimens and breathing of spores affects some people unpleasantly. The poison is slow in development. Even 12 to 20 hours after taking it the patient feels all right, but vertigo violent choleraic symptoms with rapid loss of strength with death the second or third day, preceded by stupor and spasms. Fatty degeneration of liver, heart and kidneys, hæmorrhages in lungs, pleura and skin (Dr. J. Schier). Vomiting and purging. Continuous urging to stool, but no gastric, abdominal or rectal pain. Intense thirst for cold water, dry skin. Lethargic but mentally clear. Sharp changes from rapid to slow and from slow to rapid breathing, extreme collapse, suppressed urine, but no cold extremities or cramps. Agaric emet (severe vertigo; all symptoms better, cold water; longing for ice-water; gastritis cold sweat, vomiting sensation as if stomach was suspended on a string). Tamus (chilblains and freckles). Cimicif; Cann ind; Hyos; Tarantula.

Antidote: Absinth; Coffea; Camphor.

Dose

Third to thirtieth and two hundredth potency. In skin affections and brain exhaustions give the lower attenuations.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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Leaders

Ears, face, nose and skin in general, red and itch as if from chilblains.

Twitching in eyelids (especially), face, extremities, even choreaic jerkings, which cease during sleep.

Spinal column painful and sensitive to touch, aching extending into the lower limbs.

Agaricus has some very characteristic skin symptoms. "Ears, face, nose, toes and skin in general are affected with a redness, itching and burning as of from being frozen." This is a very valuable symptom and may lead to the choice of this drug in many very different diseases. I have used the remedy a good many years with very gratifying results for chilblains. I always use it internally in the 200th. It is also a remedy of first importance for twitchings, from simple twitching in face, eyelids (especially) and extremities, to severe cases of chorea. In the latter disease the twitchings cease during sleep. Again it has been found useful in spinal irritation. The symptoms indicating it here are best given in Allen's Encyclopædia. No doubt this remedy has been over proven, and as a consequence many of its recorded symptoms are unreliable. The best work that can be done with it now is to separate them, if possible, "proving all things and holding fast that which is true."

Text Book of Materia Medica

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Mind and Disposition

Indisposed to talk. Indisposed to perform any kind of labor, especially mental. Exuberant fancy. Ecstasy. Prophecy. He makes verses.

Head

Vertigo, giddiness, as from intoxication, especially in the morning, in the open air, and caused by the bright rays of the sun. Sensation of heaviness, in the morning, as after intoxication. Drawing head-ache in the morning, extending into the root of the nose. Pressing in the (right) side of the head, as if a nail had been thrust in ; worse when sitting quietly ; relieved by slowly moving about. Great sensitiveness of the scalp, as from subcutaneous ulceration. Itching of the hairy scalp, especially early in the morning, after rising.

Eyes

Burning in the corners of the eyes. Twitching of the eyelids and eyeballs. A viscid yellow humor glues the eyelids together. Narrowing of the intervals between the eyelids. Muscæ volitantes. Short-sightedness. Black mote before the left eye. He sees things double.

Ears

Itching, burning and redness of the can, as if they had been frozen.

Nose

Bleeding of the nose in the morning, after blowing it.

Face

Tearing in the face and jaw bones. Twitching in the right) cheek. Pulsation in the cheeks. Itching in the face, with redness and burning, as if frozen.

Teeth

Tearing in the lower molar teeth, worse from cold air. Gums painful and bleeding.

Mouth

Smell from the mouth offensive, as from horse-radish. Soreness of the tongue. Tongue coated white.

Stool and Anus

Stools pappy, with violent cutting in the abdomen, and discharge of much flatulency. Itching in the anus, as from worms.

Chest

Short breath and dyspnœa, making it very difficult to walk.

Back

Sensation of soreness and great weakness in the back.

Upper Extremities

Trembling of the hands.

Lower Extremities

Heaviness of the legs.

Generalities

Great debility, with trembling of the limbs. Trembling. Twitchings in the eyeballs, eyelids, cheeks, posteriorly in the chest, in the abdomen. Epilepsy (with great exertions of strength). Great sensitiveness of the body to pressure and cold air. Tearing pains, face, legs, continuous while at rest, disappearing while moving about. Soreness and sensation of rawness, (nose, mouth). Itching, burning, and redness, (as if frost-bitten), ears, node, cheeks, fingers, toes.

Sleep

Sleepiness in the day-time, especially after eating.

Fever

Pulse. Accelerated in the morning, slower during the day, uneven, and sometimes intermitting. Chilliness. Great chilliness in the open air. Chilliness, with natural heat of the skin. Perspiration, from the least exertion.

Skin

Burning, itching, and redness, as if frost-bitten. Miliary eruptions, close and white, with burning and itching.

Conditions

Symptoms often appear diagonally, (right arm, left leg).

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Amanita muscaria. Agaricus muscarius. Fly Agaric. Bug Agaric. Champignon fou. (Europe, Asia, and America; in dry places, especially in dry pine woods.) N. O. Fungi. Trituration of the carefully dried-up cap (pileus); or tincture of the fresh fungus.

Clinical

Acne rosacea . Blepharospasm. Brain, softening of . Bunion. Chilblains. Chorea. Coldness. Cough. Cramp . Delirium tremens. Dysmenorrhœa. Enteric fever . Epilepsy (with great exertion of strength). Gangrene. General paralysis. Hyperpyrexia . Itching. Jaundice. Lachrymal fistula. Lichen. Lumbago . Meningitis. Myopia. Neuralgia. Numbness. Nystagmus. Phthisis. Rheumatism. Sacrum, pains in . Sebaceous tumours. Sexual excess, effects of. Spinal Irritation. Spleen, affections of. Starting . Stitch in side. Tic Convulsif. Toothache. Tremors. Typhoid fever. Typhus.

Characteristics

As Agaricus is used in many parts for making an intoxicating drink, we find in alcoholism a sphere for its action, and also in all states of delirium, mania, and even idiocy. A peculiarity of the delirium is to make verses and prophesy; also silly merriness, and incoherent talk, with mania; kisses companions. Talcott considers Agaric . gives the nearest approach to general paralysis of all remedies; exalted notions of grandeur and power, hilarity, and excitement followed by depression, confusion, imbecility. Accompanying bodily symptoms are vertigo (marked and persistent), with constant impulse to fall backward; twitching about eyes and face, redness without heat, puffy and distorted. Ravenous appetite, with bolting of food. Sexual appetite enormous and enthusiastic, with relaxed penis and impotence. Throughout the body there are spasmodic twitchings, followed by waning tremulousness; finally relaxation and exhaustion. In all these respects the drug accurately corresponds with the disease. Typhoid states often call for it, and also epilepsy. Rolling of the head is a leading indication for it in brain affections and fever. Peculiar headaches are: "Throbbing headache, with sensation of stiffness of muscles of face." "Dull, drawing headache in the morning, extending into root of nose, with nose-bleed or thick mucous discharge." "Pain as from a nail in right side of head." One of the most characteristic of the Agaricus effects is the muscular jerking and twitching it sets up. This renders it appropriate in large numbers of cases of chorea. Twitchings are especially marked in the eyes, eyelids, and facial muscles; and Agaricus has cured many cases of blepharospasm and tic convulsif . Pain as if touched or pierced by needles of ice is very characteristic. Belonging to a low order of vegetation Agar . produces fetidity of breath, eructations, and stools. Sweat may be oily but is not offensive. Agar . is a spleen medicine, causing stitch in the side, and it has cured stitch in runners, enabling them to run further. The symptoms of Agaricus are apt to appear at the same time on opposite sides of the body but diagonally (right upper and left lower, or vice versâ ). The nervous patients requiring Agar . pass little urine (opp. Ign .), though the bladder may be irritable.

Mushrooms are among the articles of diet forbidden by Grauvogl to persons having the "hydrogenoid constitution," as described by him, in which the patients are exceedingly sensitive to cold and damp. Agreebly with this we find in the provings of Agaricus great sensitiveness to cold air. All symptoms are < in cold weather, especially headache. Looking out of an open window causes toothache and pains in the limbs. Drinking cold water < Symptoms are < before a thunderstorm. At the same time many symptoms of intense coldness are produced: cold and blue; sensations as if touched with ice, or ice-cold needles. All the symptoms of frostbite and chilblains (itching, redness, and burning). Somewhat allied to chilblains is bunion, for which Agar . has been found specific by many practitioners. Many symptoms appear when walking in the open air; this is a very general and characteristic aggravation. On the other hand, all symptoms are < indoors and at rest, except vertigo, which may be either < or > in a room. Conversely to sensitiveness to cold there is sensitiveness to the rays of the sun, and sunstroke is within the curative range of Agaric . < After moving, and by pressure from without.

Relations

Compare: Bovista; Sticta pulmon.; Act. r.; Can. ind.; Op.; Stram. (alcoholism, chorea); Coff. (ecstasy); Cicut. (spasm of eyes); Codein (spasm of eyelids); Mygale; Tarent.; Verat. alb. (icy-cold feeling in head); Ars. ( hot needles; Agar. ice-cold needles) Agar. stands between Stram. and Lach. It is antidoted by: Charcoal; coffee; wine; brandy; camphor; fat or oil (relieves stomach); Calc. c. (relieves icy coldness); Puls.; Rhus (nightly backache). It follows well: Bell., Calc. c., Merc., Op., Puls., Rhus, Sil. Is followed by: Tarent. (typhoid with "rolling of the head"). Teste includes Agar. in his Belladonna group.

Causation

Coitus, subjective symptoms arising after. Frost. Sun. Fright. Mental application or excitement. Over-exertion. Sexual excess. Alcoholism. Blood poisoning.

Mind

Aversion to conversation. ─ Indisposed to perform any kind of labour, esp. mental. ─ Exuberant fancy. ─ Ecstasy. ─ Inclination to make verses and to prophesy. ─ Mania, timid, or furious, with great display of strength. ─ Embraces companions and kisses their hands; alternately with vexation. ─ Silly merriness. ─ Great loquacity; sings, talks, but does not answer questions. ─ Delirium, tries to get out of bed. ─ Delirium constant, knows no one, throws things at the nurse. ─ Delirium tremens. ─ Morose, self-willed, stubborn, slow in learning to walk and talk.

Head

Dizziness, as from intoxication, principally in the open air, in the morning, and on reflecting. ─ Vertigo, with impulse to fall backward. ─ The bright light of the sun instantly produces a dizziness, so as to occasion falling. ─ Piercing pains in the head when seated. ─ Dull pain, chiefly in the forehead, with drawing of the eyelids. ─ Drawing pains in the head, extending to the eyes and root of nose, principally on waking in the morning. ─ Pain, as if a nail were driven into the head; < when sitting quietly; > by slowly moving about. ─ Digging pain and sensation as from a bruise in the brain. ─ Semilateral cephalalgia; pulling and pressing with confusion in the head. ─ Beating in the vertex, with almost furious despair. ─ Pressure in the head to the bottom of the brain, increased by pressure or contact of the hair, and accompanied by a complete loss of energy. ─ Sensation of icy coldness in the head; on the scalp, r. side of frontal bone. ─ A jerking sensation in the forehead and in the temple. ─ Great sensitiveness of the scalp, as from subcutaneous ulceration. ─ Itching of the hairy scalp, esp. early in the morning.

Eyes

Itching in the eyes. ─ Burning sensation in the internal corners of the eyelids, which are painful on being touched. ─ Pressure in the eyes. ─ Humour in the corners of the eyes, and agglutination of the lids. ─ Twitching of the eyelids and eyeballs. ─ The cleft of the eyelids growing narrower. ─ Canthi itch, burn, are red; < from touch; stick together (lachrymal fistula). ─ A viscid yellow humour glues the eyelids together. ─ Weakness and confusion of vision, as from a mist before the eyes. ─ Brownish spots (like flies) before the eyes. ─ Black motes before the eyes. ─ Myopia. ─ Diplopia. Muscular asthenopia; nystagmus; squint. ─ Clonic spasms.

Ears

Otalgia excited and aggravated on the admission of free air. ─ Itching in the ears, with redness and burning pain, as from chilblains. ─ Buzzing in the ears.

Nose

Excoriation and inflammation of the nostrils, with painful sensibility. ─ Itching in the interior and on the exterior of the nose. ─ Blood on blowing the nose, and bleeding at the nose. ─ Increased acuteness of smell. ─ Frequent sneezing without coryza. Dryness of the nose. ─ Flow of clear water from the nose, without coryza.

Face

Tearing in the face and jaw bones. ─ Twitching in the (r.) cheek. ─ On waking, pain in l. jaw-joint, so violent, he can scarcely open his mouth. ─ Itching, redness, and burning in the cheeks, as if from chilblains. ─ Palpitations and pulsations in the cheeks. ─ Bluish lips. ─ Burning fissures in the upper lip. ─ Herpetic eruption, principally on upper lip. ─ Spasmodic drawing in the chin and in the lower jaw. ─ Needle-like prickings in chin; chin covered with minute blisters.

Teeth

Tearing pains in the teeth, aggravated by cold. ─ Tearing in the lower molar teeth, < from cold air. ─ Shooting from r. lower teeth up to r. side of head. ─ Gums swollen, painful, and readily bleeding.

Mouth

Pain, as from excoriation in the mouth and in the palate. ─ Excoriation of the tongue. ─ Tongue, after a meal, covered with aphthæ of a dirty yellow, with a sensation as if the skin were being taken off. ─ Tongue coated white. ─ Neuralgic splinter-like pains in tongue with salivation. ─ Ulcer on the frænum of the tongue. ─ Offensive smell of the mouth, as after eating horse-radish. ─ Foam about the mouth. ─ Flow of bitter saliva. ─ Speech inarticulate.

Throat

Dry fauces and pharynx, causing contraction and difficulty of swallowing; with ravenous appetite. ─ Pressure in fauces as though a foreign body stuck there which could not be removed by swallowing. ─ Induration of tonsils. ─ Tension in thyroid gland; < towards evening; feels cravat too tight. ─ Throws up small floculi or solid lumps of phlegm almost without any cough.

Appetite

Insipid and fetid taste in the mouth. ─ Want of appetite for bread. ─ Hunger, with want of appetite. ─ Attacks of bulimy, chiefly in the evening. ─ After a meal, pressure in the stomach and the abdomen, with fulness. ─ Very drowsy after dinner.

Stomach

Eructations alternately with hiccough. ─ Eructations, with the taste of the food that has been taken. ─ Frequent empty eructations; or with the taste of apples; or with the taste of rotten eggs. ─ Nausea, with cutting pains. ─ Inclination to vomit immediately after a meal. ─ Pressure on the stomach, and in the precordial region, after a meal. ─ Pain resembling cramp and oppressive heaviness in the stomach.

Abdomen

Shootings (sharp needle-like pains) in the hepatic region. ─ Prickings in the region of the spleen during and after inspiration. ─ Stitch in side from running. ─ Cutting and pinching pains in the abdomen as from diarrhœa. ─ Moving about and rumbling noise in the abdomen. ─ Abundant expulsion of flatulency of a fetid odour, like that of garlic.

Stool and Anus

Hard stools of a dark colour after a period of constipation. ─ Loose stools in the form of pap, with flatulency and severe colic. ─ Loose stools, a painful drawing in the stomach and in the abdomen. ─ Tingling in the anus. ─ Itching in the anus, as from worms. ─ Dysenteric flux. ─ Diarrhœa of children, with grass-green, bilious stools. ─ Fetid stools.

Urinary Organs

Urine scanty and infrequent. ─ Urine clear, and of a yellow (lemon) colour. ─ Flow of viscous mucus from the urethra.

Male Sexual Organs

Increase of sexual desire, with flaccidity of the penis. ─ Scanty emission in coition. ─ After coition great weakness and nocturnal sweat. ─ Itching in the genitals. ─ A sensation of drawing in the testes.

Female Sexual Organs

Awfully bearing-down pains almost intolerable. ─ Menses too profuse and early, with tearing, pressive pains in back and abdomen. ─ Itching and irritation of the parts with strong desire for an embrace. ─ During menses: headache, toothache, pain and itching in l. ear, > by boring; labour-like pains; pains in l. arm; itching; palpitation; salivation. ─ Leucorrhœa, with much itching internally and externally.

Respiratory Organs

Expectoration of small globules of mucus, almost without cough. ─ Spasmodic, convulsive, nervous cough, which may provoke secondary hæmorrhage.

Chest

Respiration short and laboured, with difficulty of walking, even slowly. ─ Respiration difficult, as if the chest were full of blood. ─ Oppressive constriction of the chest, with a necessity for frequent and deep inspirations. Pain principally in the lower part of the chest, as if its contents were compressed. ─ Prickings in the chest. ─ Copious nocturnal sweat upon the chest. ─ Itching of the nipples.

Heart

Stitches; burning, shooting pains in region of heart, extending to l. shoulder-blade; < by coughing, sneezing, or deep inspiration. ─ Oppression in cardiac region as if thorax narrowed. ─ Painful palpitations of the heart. ─ With heart symptoms, paralysed feeling in l. arm and hand. ─ Pulse weak, dicrotic, intermittent.

Neck and Back

Pain as from fatigue and dislocation in the back, at the nape of the neck and in the loins, esp. when sitting or lying down. ─ Painful weakness in the muscles of the back. ─ Sensation of soreness and great weakness in the back. ─ Paralytic pain in the loins, increased by walking or by standing.

Limbs

Limbs affected diagonally; l. forearm, r. thigh; r. knee, l. hand. ─ Tearing in limbs, < in rest or sitting, > moving. ─ Cracking in joints. ─ Subsultus tendinum. ─ Feels as if her limbs did not belong to her.

Upper Limbs

Arms weak and without vigour. ─ Burning pain in the arms, followed by an eruption of small pimples with scaling of the epidermis. ─ Irregular and hurried movements of arm. ─ Upper arms shaken as from an electric shock. ─ Prostration, weariness, and paralytic feeling in l. arm. ─ Tearing in both hands; on l. wrist. ─ Trembling of hands; and coldness. ─ Tearing in the fingers. ─ Cramp-like pain in the thumb. ─ Paleness and numbness of the fingers, which are, at the same time, very sensitive to cold. ─ Itching, burning pain, and redness in the fingers, as if from chilblains.

Lower Limbs

Legs heavy and fatigued, esp. in the thighs. ─ Twitching, quicksilver sensation, in gluteal muscles. ─ Pains in legs like electric shocks. ─ On crossing thighs feels a violent pain in them. ─ Drawing in the legs, as if in the interior of the bone, esp. when sitting or standing, > by motion. ─ Painful sensation in the hip on walking. ─ Drawing in the legs. ─ Darting pain in the feet and in the toes. ─ Drawing pressure in the malleolæ. ─ Burning itching and redness in the toes, as if from chilblains. ─ Bunion.

Generalities

Painful cramps in the muscles when seated. ─ Sensation of tearing in the limbs, principally during repose, whether seated or standing, and which disappears on movement. ─ Twitchings in the eyeballs, eyelids, cheeks, posteriorly in the chest, in the abdomen. ─ Symptoms which exhibit themselves transversely (for instance, in the r. arm and in the l. leg), > by walking slowly. ─ Great sensibility in the whole body; the softest pressure produces continued pains. ─ Pains, as from a bruise in the limbs and in all the joints, after even moderate exercise. ─ Soreness and sensation of rawness (nose and mouth). ─ Piercing pains in different parts of the body, chiefly in the head, with desire for sleep, and faintness when seated. ─ Tearing pains (face, legs) continuous while at rest, disappearing While moving about. ─ Great weakness and heaviness in all the limbs. ─ Trembling. ─ Convulsions. ─ Epileptic fits. ─ Epilepsy (with great exertions of strength). ─ Great sensibility to cool air. ─ Great sensitiveness of the body to pressure and cold air.

Skin

Itching and titillation, which force the sufferer to scratch himself. ─ Itching, burning pain, and redness as from chilblains in different parts of the body. ─ Miliary eruption, whitish and close-grained, with excessive itching.

Sleep

Desire to sleep in the day, particularly after a meal. ─ Violent yawning, followed by dizziness. ─ In the morning, a sense of dizziness, and great difficulty in rising. ─ As a rule sleeps badly and unrefreshingly.

Fever

Disposition exceedingly chilly, and shiverings in the open air, or on raising the bed-clothes, although the limbs may be warm. ─ Shivering through the body from above downwards. ─ Easy chilliness on slight movement. ─ Violent shivering and trembling over the whole body, with heat in the face and cold in the hands. ─ Sweat from even a moderate walk and slight exertion.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

Cannot find proper word, uses wrong words ; < after exertion and sleepless nights.
Dulness almost amounting to idiocy. θ Chorea.
The whole psychological sphere as if paralyzed, hence a kind of idiocy.
Ecstasy, fancies excited ; makes verses ; prophesies.
Talks incoherently ; passes rapidly from subject to subject.
Falls into a delirium as with high fever ; becomes now gay, now melancholic.
Delirium : tries to get out of bed ; constant raving without exacerbation ; constant, does not know his relations, and throws his wine and medicine at his nurse. θ Typhus.
Delirium tremens.
Fearless, menacing, mischievous frenzy ; frenzy causing him to assail and injure himself, great exertion of power.
Silly merriness.
Great loquacity, convulsive motions of facial and cervical muscles, mostly right side, drawing head down to shoulder ; merry, incoherent talk, followed by malaise.
Sings, talks, but does not answer questions ; strength augmented.
Laughs at his attempts to stand and walk.
Disinclined to answer questions.
Aversion to work. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Indisposed to perform any labor, especially mental.
She is indifferent, though naturally very solicitous.
Very much out of humor.
Takes offense easily.
(OBS :) Mental solicitude about his condition. θ Incipient tuberculosis.
Cross, self-willed, stubborn. θ Chronic spasms of eyes.
His mind much depressed. θ Chorea.
Great selfishness. θ Nymphomania.
Morose, self-willed, stubborn, slow in learning to walk and talk ; on trying to walk stumbled singularly often. θ Nystagmus.
Protracted mental application or exciting debates brought on vertigo.
Complaints after getting angry.
(OBS :) Epilepsy after fright.
While meditating : vertigo.
When thinking of pain : undefined disagreeable sensation.

Sensorium

Vertigo : when walking in open air, reeling as if drunk ; long-lasting, with great sensitiveness to cold air ; momentary ; from strong light of sun ; with stupefaction and burning in vertex ; combined with a
tottering gait and indistinct sight, even of near objects ; > thinking of something else ; in attacks ; objects whirling ; tendency to fall forward ; brought on by protracted mental application or exciting debates.
When walking does not arrive at point he sets out for. θ Chorea.
Constant dizziness. θ From overwork at desk.
Lay almost always unconscious, though he could be raised for a minute when questioned. θ Typhoid.
Confusion of head.
Heaviness as after drunkenness.
As if drunken and always sleepy. θ Epilepsy.
Unconscious and speechless with convulsions ; t.
Fainting after moving head, hearing others talk, smelling aromatics or perfumeries, even smelling vinegar.

Inner head

Nervous headache.
Great weight in head, A. M. θ Chorea.
Throbbing, beating cephalalgia, with a sensation of stiffness of muscles of face. θ Climacteric years.
Beating pain, with despair bordering on rage.
Burning in head.
Pain as though sharp ice touched head or cold needles pierced it.
Dull pain, especially in forehead ; must move head constantly to and fro and close eyes as for sleep.
Violent oppressive pains, chiefly in forehead, with delirium.
Fulness and pain in temples. θ From overwork at desk.
In temples : burrowing pain ; drawing ; shooting cramplike pain.
Pressing in right side, as if a nail was thrust in ; worse sitting quietly ; better moving slowly about.
Tearing and pressure in left half of brain.
Heaviness or sense of bearing down ; weight in top of head, with a feeling of pressing together of brain.
In vertex : pressure ; burning ; throbbing.
Dull fulness after waking.
Heaviness, drawing and tension ; heaviness towards nape.
Dull, drawing headache in morning, extending into root of nose, with nosebleed or thick mucous discharge.
Headache from spine affection.
Headaches of those who are subject to chorea ; or who readily become delirious in fever or with pain ; twitchings or grimaces.

Outer head

Various sensations in left half of occipital bone, when seated.
Sensation of coldness on right side of frontal bone, though warm to touch.
Icy coldness in region of coronal suture after itching and scratching.
Sensation of icy coldness on head.
Twitching in skin of forehead, above right eye.
Twitching of head and cervical muscles on right side ; drawing of head towards shoulder. θ Pregnancy.
Drawing or stitching pains in head, shifting from side to side. θ Neuralgia.
Such a violent shock of whole head, starting in first cervical articulation, he involuntarily bit his tongue.
Drawing from both sides in frontal bone as far as root of nose.
Chronic tenderness of scalp, like that with spinal irritation.
Chorea-like muscular motions of galea aponeurotica (scalp), temporal muscles in cheek and lower jaw.
Head constantly falling backward as if a weight were attached to occiput.
Head in constant motion. θ Chorea.
Sweat all over, even on scalp.
Biting itching on scalp and other parts of head ; like tetter on a small spot on border of forehead, left side.
Scalp sensitive as from subcutaneous ulceration.
Itching of scalp, especially early in morning, after rising.
Itching nettle-rash on scalp with stupefaction and vertigo. θ Climacteric years.
Tinea capitis with crusts sometimes spreading to other parts of body.
Right half of head higher and thicker at birth of child.
Head appeared crooked and displaced ; both halves of head grew almost even. θ Clonic spasms of eyes.

Sight and eyes

Sensitive to light, even candlelight ; confusion, dizziness from it.
Feeling of weakness in eyes without having exerted them.
Shortsightedness.
Dim sight : focal distance changes while reading, first grows shorter then longer ; things look obscured as from turbid water ; muscæ volitantes ; vibrating spectra ; with vertigo.
Reads with difficulty, type seems to move.
Flickering before eyes while writing.
If she grasped at any object held before her, her hand did not generally come near it. θ Nystagmus.
Yellow, brown or black spot before left eye.
Brown muscæ volitantes.
Pupils dilated ; light glares.
Optical illusions in dark colors.
Diplopia ; sees things double. θ From overwork at desk.
Myopia, dependent upon spasm of ciliary muscle, especially if complicated with twitching of lids.
Muscular asthenopia, with weakness of internal recti, and consequent inability to keep eyes fixed on reading (vanishing of sight), with pain around eyes, soreness of balls, twitchings and jerkings of balls and lids.
Muscular asthenopia consequent upon uterine disorders and spinal anemia ; cannot fix eyes long even on distant objects, could not converge them ; lids heavy, as if stuck together, but are not.
Pupils dilated, eyes dull, tarsi reddened ; constant lachrymation ; balls and lids twitch. θ Chorea.
Pupils rather contracted. θ Typhus.
Exertion of eyes makes a pressure in balls ; flimmering and mistiness.
Black motes hover before eyes, everything surrounded by mist, as if covered by cobweb, eyes hurt ; dizzy ; disposed to shut eyes. θ Headache.
Viscid yellow humor gluing lids ; gum in canthi.
Heat in eyes.
Burning most in inner canthi ; they itch, burn and are red ; < from touch ; stick together. θ Lachrymal fistula.
Frequent slight twitching in eyelids.
Spasmodic twitching in eyes and lids, clear water runs out of them.
Twitching in eyeballs ; while reading, frequent twitching and pressing in left eyeball.
Moving eyes hurts, burns and presses, and brows are sore to touch.
Jerks and pressing in left eyeball at all times of day, and under all conditions.
Jerks in eyeballs frequently following each other.
While reading, frequent jerking and pressing in eyeballs.
Trembling and jerking of eyelids.
Child usually stared blankly and without taking notice of things, also squinted. θ Clonic spasms of eyes.
As soon as she opens her eyes in morning, both eyeballs, no matter whether they are fixed upon an object or not, begin to revolve towards right and left with a velocity of half a second, and this continues whole day, with but few intermissions. θ Clonic
spasms of eyes.
Spasms, with aching in left eyeball.
Narrowing of space between eyelids.
Clonic spasms ; lids open and close in quick succession ; quivering of lids.
Eyes suffused. θ Typhus.
Swelling of tear-glands.
Little blisters on cornea ; ulcers of cornea ; eyes inflamed, with flow of tears, from smells, from coughing.

Hearing and ears

After listening to exciting debates, vertigo.
Every slight noise causes palpitation.
Hearing very acute ; t.
Feels worse from hearing people talk.
Dulness of hearing.
Increasing deafness, seventeenth day. θ Typhus.
Creaking in both ears, as from a wooden screw at each attempt to swallow.
Jumping of tensor tympani, sounding like a leathercovered metal valve.
Twitching, rattling, fluttering in tympanic cavity.
Tearing in right ear ; twitching stitches.
Painful stitches in left ear.
Itching in left external auditory tube, with a stitch in inner ear, as of an ice-cold needle.
Stitches in left mastoid process.
Stitches from fauces along eustachian tube, right side Excessive secretion of wax.
Redness, burning itching of ears, as if they had been frozen.
(OBS :) Frost-bitten ears pain and itch.

Smell and nose

Smell of vinegar unbearable.
Smell sensitive ; mucous membrane very sensitive.
Nosebleed of old people, with a relaxed state of bloodvessels.
Profuse fetid discharge from nose ; epistaxis. θ From overwork at desk.
Frequent dropping of clear water from nose, without coryza.
Dry and fluent coryza, with sneezing.
Frequent sneezing, even when there is no coryza, in morning in bed.
Copious discharge of thick tenacious mucus from nose.
Occasionally discharge dark and bloody. θ Chronic nasal catarrh.
Running coryza, with bad odor from nose and running of water from eyes.
Accumulation of dry mucus in nose, with sensation as if nose was entirely filled with it.
Stoppage of nose, especially when stooping.
Constant, copious and offensive discharge from nose, no one could inhale his breath without disgust. θ Chronic nasal catarrh.
Nose turns bluish.
Chronic inflammation of external nose.
(OBS :) Frost-bitten nose with itching.
Little hard pimples on side of her nose and lips.
Headache extending into root of nose.
Drawing in nose ( see 3 ), with nosebleed or much thick nasal mucus, followed by dropping of water from nose.

Upper face

Face red and hot. θ Headache.
(OBS :) Heat in face and upper part of body, in spells lasting from five to ten minutes. θ Incipient tuberculosis.
Puffy, pale ; blue under eyes ; nose and lips bluish.
Face blue and puffed. θ Epilepsy.
Tearing in face and jaw bones.
Twitching in right cheek.
Pulsating and throbbing in cheeks.
Twitching of facial muscles. θ Chorea.
Lancinating, tearing and drawing pain in right cheek.
Faceache with toothache.
Itching in face, with redness and burning, as if frost-bitten.
Paralysis of muscles of face, so that one or both corners of mouth drop, allowing saliva to run out. θ Typhus.
Expression of face somewhat idiotic ; child had a senseless stare right before her and sometimes squinted. θ Nystagmus.
Expression of face wore appearance of idiocy. θ Clonic spasms of eyes.

Lower face

Froth at mouth, face bluish and puffed. θ Epilepsy.
Jaws clenched.
Sensation as if splinters had been run into right lower jaw.
Trembling vibration in lips and muscles of lower jaw ; convulsive shaking.
Pricking in chin, as from needles.
On awaking, so violent a pain in left articulation of jaw, he could scarcely open his mouth.
Violent tearing in right side of lower jaw.
(OBS :) Chaps and fissures of lips.
Herpetic eruption principally on upper lip.
Many little blisters on skin.

Teeth and gums

Pains in superior maxillary bones and teeth.
Teeth feel too long.
Teeth sensitive to touch, pressure, or while chewing.
Painful jerk in teeth each time he drinks cold water.
Tearing in lower molars, worse from cold air.
Swelling and bleeding of gums, with pain.
Bleeding gums.
Shooting from right lower teeth up to right side of head.
(OBS :) Inflammation of lining membrane of alveolar processes.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste : sweetish, disagreeable, nauseous ; foul ; flat ; bitter ; sharp and bitter ; metallic ; offensive, gummy, sweet, after
breakfast ; sweetish-bitter when smoking ; bad at root of tongue, with slight nausea ; salty, as after herring ; rancid.
Inarticulate speech. θ Chorea.
Inarticulate speech, like from trismus. θ Typhoid fever.
Learned to speak with difficulty. θ Clonic spasm of eyes.
Left side of tongue numb, with vertigo.
Tongue : coated white, mornings ; smarting, burning in tip, as from pepper ; coated with thick, tough mucus in morning.
Tongue very tremulous and quite dry and bluish. θ Typhus.
Tongue dry. θ Typhus.
Soreness of tongue.
(OBS :) Tip of tongue studded with small dirty yellow aphthæ. θ Incipient tuberculosis.
Papillæ enlarged, sensation of dryness and contraction like after an astringent, tongue covered with a tough viscid phlegm, especially in morning.
Phagadenic ulcers on ligament of tongue.

Inner mouth

Offensive odor like that after eating horseradish.
Bad odor from mouth. θ Incipient tuberculosis. θ Catarrh.
Dryness of whole mouth and back of it.
Increased flow of acrid saliva.
Water accumulates in mouth, with pain in abdomen.
Mercurial aphthæ on roof of mouth and tongue.
Sometimes in erecting head, saliva gets into windpipe, causing a violent ejecting cough.
Frequently suffering from aphthæ, want of appetite, diarrhœa. θ Clonic spasms of eyes.

Palate and throat

Feeling of dryness of fauces extending into pharynx, causing contraction, as when drinking an astringent.
Great difficulty in swallowing, with ravenous appetite. θ Chorea.
Throws up some flocculi or solid lumps of phlegm, almost without cough.
Pressure in fauces as though a foreign body stuck there, which could not be removed by swallowing.
Angina tonsillaris with great dryness in throat and general weakness. θ Cured by Pulsat.
Induration of tonsils, thymus and other glands.
Feeling of tension externally in region of thyroid gland.
Neck distended ; cravat feels too tight.
A burning-cooling feeling along œsophagus to stomach, as after eating cress.
Scratching sensation in throat, renewed with every attempt to sing. θ A professional singer after an epidemic influenza.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Much hunger, but no appetite.
Towards evening, suddenly attacked with rabid hunger ; body covered with sweat ; tremor and weariness of limbs.
Ravenous appetite, but difficult swallowing. θ Chorea.
Much hunger, but no appetite ; early in morning ; stomach feels as if empty.
Violent thirst.
Burning thirst. θ Typhus.
Thirst rather rare, particularly in throat during chill.

Eating and drinking

Before breakfast : better.
During breakfast : nausea ; very soon satisfied while eating, and pressure and bearing down in stomach.
After breakfast : headache, a very offensive taste, dryness, burning in throat, nausea and vomiting, and pressure in stomach.
Before dinner : bitter taste ; but eats with appetite.
After dinner : inability to think ; inner uneasiness ; disgust for work ; pressing in forehead and temples ; painful drawing in occiput ; same in eyeballs ; buzzing in ears ; earache ; uneasiness in muscles of lower jaw and lips ;
unpleasant taste ; biting behind on left edge of tongue ; a tearing sensation in pharynx, when swallowing saliva ; very soon hungry again ; belching ; nausea and gagging ; vomiting ; sore feeling under ribs ; fulness in
stomach, even after using light food moderately ; pressure and fulness in abdomen ; expansion ; bloating ; wind passing off ; a stool with pain in anus ; short dry cough or sneezing, causing violent pain ; tension in sides of chest, and
burning ; pain in back ; convulsive shaking of left shoulder ; a cold feeling as from quicksilver on left nates, in hollow of knee, on a small spot towards right ; tearing pain in left tibia ; prostration of lower limbs ; burning in thighs ; violent burning
in a corn on right little toe, which does not allow him to take his siesta.
Very drowsy after dinner, quite unusual ; he sleeps very deeply and gets awake with pains in all limbs.
After supper : molesting fulness in abdomen, backache, chills.
Sleepy while eating, distended abdomen ; griping around navel ; pappy stools ; tension across chest ; nervous sensation running through body.
Better for an hour after eating while he is so exhausted ; but great sleepiness remains.
After a meal : nausea, eructations ; abdomen distended (even after moderate eating).
Eating is almost always followed by heartburn ; prunes by pressure in stomach.
After a swallow of cold water, nausea, the same quiets vomiting of phlegm ; wine indisposes to work ; coffee accelerates pulse.
Daily about three hours after a meal she has a burning at stomach, which changes into a dull pressure with nausea.
After smoking : peeling off inside of lips ; saltish bitter, exceedingly offensive taste ; belching and hiccough alternating ; sudden nausea and vomiting ; attacks of violent cough.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Hiccough alternating with belching.
With hiccoughing : burning pains in region of heart.
Belching : with taste of food.
Eructations : empty ; taste of rotten eggs ; taste of apples.
Nausea : with anxiety, depression, vertigo, sneezing, unpleasant sensation in stomach, stitches in liver, cutting in abdomen, rapid breathing, great weakness ; in chest.
Heartburn.
Vomituritio and great prostration, fainting.
Vomiting : in evenings ; middle of night ; of ingesta.
Bitter vomit, with stitches in rectum and loin, followed by headache and irritation to sneeze.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Sensitive to pressure in pit of stomach. θ Chorea.
Spasmodic drawing from pit of stomach up into chest.
Drawing in of pit of stomach.
Burning below sternum.
Sense of oppression at cardiac region, as if cavity of thorax was narrowed.
(OBS :) Bilious dyspepsia in very nervous persons.
Cardialgia for three hours after a meal.
Burning in stomach, changing into a dull pressure, as from a foreign body, with nausea.
Heavy sensation in stomach ; faintness, with an empty feeling, sometimes alternating with a jerking sensation as of some heavy object. See 29 .
From 12 to 2 P. M. daily, cramp from middle of spine through into stomach ; severe gagging and vomiting ; legs feel as if pricked all over with ice-cold needles.

Hypochondria

Liver enlarged, congested.
Sensation of pain and drawing in right hypochondrium, as if liver had increased in weight and dragged at its ligaments.
Sharp stitches, as from needles, in region of liver ; dull stitches during breathing.
Stitches under short ribs, left side.
Pain in stomach and liver, burning from acidity.
(OBS :) Enlargement of liver.
Pain in left hypochondrium, with rumbling in region of left superior flexure of colon.

Abdomen and loins

Violent colic, cutting, griping, pinching.
(OBS :) Popular medicine for colic with the Korjäkes.
Great noises in abdomen.
Rumbling, with constant pain deep in umbilical region ; < from pressure.
Loud rolling and rumbling in bowels, with constipation. θ During pregnancy.
(OBS :) Flatulency of stomach and bowels.
Pinching below umbilicus, attended with a bloated condition of abdomen.
Pain in abdomen with fetid discharges. θ Typhus.
Burning in abdomen.
(OBS :) Ulceration of stomach and bowels. θ Typhoid fever.
A great heaviness like from a weight, most below navel.
A pressure as from a swelling from left hypogastrium to back.
In region of cecum, violent stitches, with sneezing.
Sensation of emptiness, hollowness or coldness in abdomen.
Distension of abdomen.
Undulatory jumping of upper abdominal muscles.
Twitching, tension, tearing and stitches in loins.
Subsultus of abdominal muscles.
Bruised feeling in loins, in sitting and lying.
Laming pains in loins, < walking and standing.
(OBS :) Abdominal plethora.
Weakness in loins. θ Rheumatism.
In groins, peculiar tensive sensation as if wrenched, less when walking, quivering in left.

Stools and rectum

In rectum : a sharp itching, invites to drawing upward, but is only relieved by pressing down ; burning and loss of blood ; biting after wind passes ; bearing down, tenesmus.
Prickling, itching in rectum and anus, as from worms.
Passes much inodorous flatus, every day for weeks ; more after breakfast.
Wind of odor like carrion ; like garlic.
Stool thin, yellow, fecal, slimy.
Stool mushy, most after breakfast, oftener than usual.
Stool pappy, passage of a large quantity of wind.
Stool has an abominable stench ; t.
Fetid stools.
Diarrhœa mostly in morning, after rising and eating, with much rumbling ; crampy colic and passing of wind.
Diarrhœa in children ; liver involved, with grass-green, bilious stools.
Diarrhœa, with cutting in abdomen ; bowels loose, stools light and offensive. θ Typhus.
Looseness commencing in morning, immediately after rising, returning after each meal with much rumbling, passing wind and spasmodic bellyache ; crampy colic. θ Chronic diarrhœa.
Very hard stools ; at first hard and knotty, then soft, finally diarrheic.
Costiveness. θ Rheumatism.
Before stool : pinching and cutting in abdomen ; urgent tenesmus ; painful straining in rectum.
During stool : colic and passing of flatus ; burning soreness, smarting and cutting in anus ; sweat ; pain in loins to legs, continuing after stool.
After stool : headache > ; biting in anus ; straining in rectum ; cutting pain in anus ; griping in hypogastrium ; distension of abdomen ; heaviness in abdomen and around naval ; pain in chest.
In anus : periodical violent stitches, afternoon ; tearing pain with hard stool ; heaviness and fulness ; pressing, at noon ; an urging towards it from wind ; very unpleasant sensation of dryness, had
to draw it upward ; sensation as if completely closed ; paralytic weakness in sphincter ; warm feeling, burning with cadaverous smelling flatus ; heat and itching, itching
and burning ; crawling as from worms, has to scratch ; moisture and oozing out ; slime appears without a stool.
A copious mush-like stool, followed by burning in anus.
Hemorrhoidal tumors burning, inflamed, swollen.

Urinary organs

Pressing pain in region of kidneys, disturbs sleep.
Stitch in right kidney.
Lameness in left kidney, sore to touch, with cramp extending into thighs.
Tensive pain while riding.
Twitching pain in bladder.
Paralytic weakness in sphincter, can hardly hold urine.
Sphincter vesicæ weak, with dribbling.
Urine passes at intervals and dribbles away, with a cold shrunken penis.
Urine passes in intermissions ; flows and stops.
Constant desire to urinate.
Quantity of urine very much increased, even with diarrhœa.
Urination, with coldness down legs, numbness and twitches.
After urination, urine passes off involuntarily.
Urine passes slowly in a small stream or in drops, has to press to promote flow.
Urine : watery, clear, lemon-colored, bright yellow ; dark yellow and hot ; red ; red, flocculent or powdery sediment ; watery in forenoon, in afternoon milky ; like whey ;
turbid ; with a red or white sediment (phosphate of magnesia) ; iridizing on surface.
Urine profuse, colorless. θ Chorea.
Urination lessened. θ Rheumatism.
A little shimmering pellicle on urine.
Urine with red, flaky sediment ; sediment white, of phosphate of magnesia.
With urination : spasmodic drawing in left groin ; burning in urethra , at night in orifice ; sensation as if a cold drop of urine was passing ; painful urging along
urethra.
Urethra : burning stitches ; stitch like from a red-hot iron ; several fine stitches, most in orifice ; crawling, itching, tickling in orifice lessened by cold water ; discharge of prostatic
juice or of a tough viscous slime ; momentary burning in orifice during night.
Viscid, glutinous mucus from urethra.

Male sexual organs

Excited sexual desire, most mornings.
After siesta, an irresistible urging, and, after emission, tensive pressure in hypochondria.
Erections night and morning.
Great desire for coition, with relaxed penis.
Pollutions : several nights ; in siesta.
After emission, pains and weakness in thighs.
Sexual power much diminished, apathy, nothing can produce an erection.
During coition : burning in urethra ; most painful with ejaculation ; insufficient ejaculation, or very late ; voluptuous ecstasy wanting.
After coitus : loss of appetite ; each time great relaxation for several days , lassitude ; night-sweats ; for two nights burning itching of skin,
with sweat on upper chest and shoulders, afterwards on abdomen and arms.
Complaints after sexual debauches.
Drawing in testicles, with a sense of discomfort, heaviness and drowsiness ; evenings.
Spasmodic drawing in left testicle and spermatic cord.
Excessive and painful retraction of testes towards inguinal ring, has to palliate it by pressing them off with fingers.
Disagreeable sensation in urethra, only in front part of penis, like a crawling, has to squeeze penis.
Penis cold and shrunken.
Itching in penis, on foreskin and scrotum.
On left side of scrotum red swelling, tickles and itches.
Old gleets and other sequela of gonorrhœa.
Excessive itching of genitals, in mons veneris ; unbearable for several days.
Itching and burning at night above genitals, lichen pilaris urticatus.

Female sexual organs

Awful, almost intolerable bearing-down pain.
Cramps as if she must have a child, obliged to lie down.
Itching and irritation of parts, with strong desire for an embrace.
Menses too profuse, with tearing, pressive pains in back and abdomen.
At beginning of menses : nightly restlessness on account of troublesome rigors ; toothache and wakefulness.
During menses : headache, toothache, pain and itching in l. ear, lessened by boring ; pains, like those of labor, in belly and back ; pains in left arm ; itching here and there, particularly about genitals ; rigors ; palpitation ; running of water from
mouth.
Swelling of vagina and several nodules (with horses).
After menses : pain as from exhaustion ; palpitation ; headache and dizziness ; prolapsus after cessation of menses ; interrupted sleep with anxiety.
Leucorrhœa very profuse, dark colored. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Leucorrhœa, with much itching internally and externally.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Constipation with rumbling in bowels during pregnancy.
Four weeks after childbirth a pressing pain like a swelling from left side of hypogastrium, extending towards back ; motion aggravates ; thirst ; loss of appetite.
Metastasis of milk to brain. θ Epilepsy.
Nipples itch, burn, look red.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Worse from singing.
During singing a scratching in throat ; after "grippe".
Oppression and constriction of larynx ; he fears suffocation.
Tickling along windpipe, with a violent, raking dry cough.
Tickling in trachea. θ Laryngo-phthisis.
(OBS :) Frequent tickling irritation in windpipe. θ Incipient tuberculosis.
At night breathing was impeded, owing to closure of nose by thick mucus. θ Chronic nasal catarrh.
Oppression of chest with pain in stomach.
During inhalation : stitches in left side and below short ribs ; increasing pressure on middle of sternum ; dull stitches in liver.
With a deep inspiration : pains in different parts of chest and abdomen ; shooting from heart to shoulder blade.
Frequent deep inspirations.
Rapid breathing, evenings, with heat all over and sweat, most in face.
Great inclination to sighing, involuntary, with rapid beating of heart.
Suffocative fits with anxiety and fainting ; t.
Difficulty in breathing, as if chest was too full ; he must breathe more deeply.
Chest as if too narrow, pressure on both sides of sternum.
Difficult and noisy respiration.
(OBS :) Short breath in walking, has to stand still to get breath. θ Incipient tuberculosis.
Constriction of chest, with deep inspirations at times, and visible beating of heart, and a kind of oppression, especially behind two borders of sternum, along its whole length.
In region of diaphragm painful drawing with difficult breathing.

Cough

Dry cough with whistling behind sternum.
(OBS :) Frequent dry cough, after meals. θ Incipient tuberculosis.
Cough with rattling of phlegm, without expectoration.
Dry cough from a tickling in trachea at night, shaking whole body violently.
Constant irritation to cough which can mostly be suppressed, but, if he cannot resist it, several violent convulsive shocks of cough succeed one another, which are very painful, tears run from eyes, and he has to double up.
Violent cough in isolated attacks, ending in repeated sneezing.
(OBS :) Hacking cough. θ Incipient tuberculosis.
Convulsive, hacking cough, with oppressive sweat.
Sudden convulsive coughs, < forenoons, or during day.
Violent spasmodic cough at night.
Cough most at night, less in morning, in forenoon, < towards evening.
Dry cough after dinner.
During cough : burning in chest ; stitches in left side ; palpitation.
Convulsive cough with anxious sweat.
Has to sit up in bed, or cough takes his breath.
With cough pressure in left head, running in scalp ; burning in eyes, tears run from eyes.
Spasmodic contraction of chest, threatening suffocation ; rawness of chest, shooting in left side of chest ; some saliva flies out of mouth ; nausea, retching ; burning in stomach ; heaviness in abdomen ; colicky pain impedes coughing.
Cough towards evening with frequent pulse (100) intermitting.
After each cough violent sneezing ; sometimes so rapid that he does not know if he coughs or sneezes.
Frequent hemming and bringing up small, firm lumps of phlegm, without cough. θ Laryngo-phthisis.
Mucous sputa most in morning.
(OBS :) Mucus is loosened by slight clearing and comes up in small, hard, round balls. θ Incipient tuberculosis.
(OBS :) Expectoration of small flakes of mucus raised almost without any cough. θ Incipient tuberculosis.
Sputa sometimes consisting of large brown lumps.
Long-lasting cough and pus-like sputa.
Rattling of phlegm in chest, < mornings and when lying on back.
Chronic catarrh.
Loose cough ; with distension of abdomen ; heaviness most in region of navel ; noise in belly ; passing of wind.

Inner chest and lungs

Sudden stitches in middle of chest.
(OBS :) Incipient tuberculosis.
Stitching behind sternum most at end of expiration.
Very painful stinging pressure in chest, below shoulder blades, and on corresponding places in front ; has to breathe deeply.
Stitches : in right lung while walking ; with every breath in l. chest ; between sternum and nipple, pulse 90, hard and full, 3 P. M.
Jerking stitches through right lung.
Oppression of chest in region of diaphragm, with drawing pains. θ Angina pectoris.
Pressure on chest and heavy sensation.
(OBS :) Sense of constriction in cardiac region, as if chest were too narrow or too full of blood. θ Incipient tuberculosis.
Sprained sensation in chest, increased by taking a deep breath, evenings.
Tension in lower part of chest during motion and when sitting, taking away his breath.
Tension, pressure, heaviness and constriction of chest.
Tension over whole chest, most in front after breakfast.
Oppression behind sternum with strange beating of heart.
Anxious sensation in chest.
Burning in left chest, worse after dinner.
(OBS :) Severe burning in chest. θ Incipient tuberculosis.
Sensation of sore pain deep in chest, first left, then right
Inflammation of lungs.
(OBS :) All symptoms of incipient phthisis.
(OBS :) Sticking, under nipple. θ Incipient tuberculosis.
(OBS :) Twitches running across chest in rapid succession, accompanied by prickling. θ Incipient tuberculosis.
Consumption of lungs ; tuberculous consumption.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Sticking pain in apex of heart.
Stitches in region of heart, through to shoulder blade ; < from cough.
Violent stitches in region of heart, with an intermitting pulse and great weakness.
Burning, shooting pains in region of heart, extending to left shoulder blade ; caused by deep inspiration and much worse from coughing, sneezing and hiccough.
Sense of oppression in cardiac region as if cavity of thorax was narrowed ; confined feeling.
Constant feeling of a lump in epigastrium, with pain under sternum ; drawing in region of diaphragm, sharp pains in left side. θ Angina pectoris, gastralgic form.
When he lay down at night he felt several blows in heart with trembling in pit of stomach and anxiety, caused by every slight noise.
Several twitching shocks of heart.
At night transient painful shocks at heart, with anxiety.
Oppression at heart on bending body down, with violent beating of heart.
The right heart overfilled with blood ; t.
When he awoke, trembling of heart.
Palpitation most in evening. θ Real convulsio cordis.
After a feeling of compression with omission of beats of heart, some very quick irregular beats.
Palpitation violent, strongly felt, < evenings, with redness of face ; on sitting down, some irregular, strong beats ; anxious oppression.
Attack of violent palpitation of heart, with anxiety breaking out in a sweat.
Forcible beats of heart, lifting hand lying on chest and moving a newspaper she had in her hand up and down.
The prover hears the heart-throbs.
Accompanying palpitation : anxiety ; trembling in pit of stomach ; dull headache ; vertigo ; red face ; oppression.
Paralyzed feeling in left arm and hand ; shudders, crawls ; water runs together in mouth ; all the limbs are weary.
Pulse : frequent, 100 in a minute, irritated, full, strong ; beats quick, 87 ; weak, small, 60 ; felt in all parts of body, most in epigastrium ; intermits after 30 or 40 beats ; dicrotic ; weak, small ; small, irregular ; t. exceedingly
weak ; t ; small (incipient tuberculosis) ; feeble, scarcely perceptible ; becomes slower during day, more frequent in morning ; small, uneven, very unequal, irregular, at times intermitting ; weak, tremulous (from overworking).
Pulse very frequent and small, 140 ; first sound of heart scarcely audible. θ Typhus.
General inactivity of circulation.

Outer chest

Peculiar sensation of contraction of sternum.
Jerking, subsultus of all pectoral muscles.
Pressure on right chest near nipple, throbbing sore feeling.
(OBS :) Painful pressure on middle of sternum, < when inhaling. θ Incipient tuberculosis.
Sharp stitches : like splinters in pectoralis near nipple, first right, then left, later on lowest ribs ; on different parts of thorax.
Pain in left intercostal muscles.
Twitches of pectoral muscles.
Shooting tearing pains in small spots.
(OBS :) Throbbing aching pain in small spots on chest. θ Incipient tuberculosis.
Soreness deep in chest in two spots, four inches on either side of sternum ; it hurts or weakens her to breathe or speak.
Copious sweat on chest during night.
Burning, biting pimples on outer chest.

Neck and back

Tension in region of thymus gland.
(OBS :) Struma.
Cervical glands swollen. θ Chorea.
Muscles in neck feel as if beaten.
Stitches in cervical vertebræ.
Twitching of cervical muscles.
Stiff neck.
Tension and stiffness of muscles of neck.
Sensation as if sprained in neck when turning head to left.
Extending to nape of neck : crick in back.
Itching pimples on neck.
In back below shoulder blades, a gnawing, shooting, tearing pain.
(OBS :) Sticking between shoulder blades. θ Incipient tuberculosis.
Frequent sharp stitches like from splinters on dorsal vertebræ.
Feels as if large splinters were pushed into back.
Violent shooting, burning pains, deep in spine.
Spasmodic, pressive, drawing pain starts from back, extends to middle of chest and into œsophagus.
Painful pulsation in spinal canal.
Dorsal muscles feel as if beaten or bruised ; on bending forward they feel short.
Backaches disturbing sleep at night ; cannot find a position to lie in, with heat.
Aching along spine and limbs.
Pain in back, as after continued stooping.
Pain along spinal column, < when stooping.
Every motion, every turn of body, causes pain in spine.
Crepitation in vertebræ of neck when stooping and crackling all along spine when moving body, in loins when stooping.
Crick in back extending from sacrum to nape of neck.
After dinner, pain in spine, especially a spot size of palm in middle of spinal column ; is very sensitive to touch, as well as at every motion of body.
Shooting pains in single vertebræ.
Violent shocks starting from one of lower vertebræ.
Sensitiveness of single vertebræ to hot sponge. θ Chorea.
The whole spinal column is very sensitive to touch, even by a sponge, or leaning against a chair.
Biting burning in a small place on spine.
Spine sensitive to touch ; < mornings.
Pain along spine in several places, tender to touch.
Sensation as if cold air was spreading from spine over body, like an aura epileptica.
Coldness below shoulder blade, as if touched by a piece of ice.
Chilliness over whole back.
Crawls over back and limbs.
Running heat through limbs.
Sensation of soreness and great weakness in back.
Numbness and weakness in back. θ Chorea.
Great uneasiness and weakness in spine, with twitchings.
Great weakness in muscles of back, can hardly sit straight.
Peculiar sensation of weakness and stiffness between shoulders ; extends to neck.
When stooping, spine pains as if too weak to support.
Sensation of ants creeping along spine.
Burning, biting on back.
Itching on back ; suppurating pimples.
Violent pains in first and second lumbar vertebræ when turning.
Pain in first two lumbar vertebræ, with sense of coldness in glutei muscles, spreading down legs, and formication in feet.
Spinal column sensitive to pressure of a hot sponge in region of second and third lumbar vertebræ. θ Chorea.
Sensitiveness of lumbar vertebræ. θ Chorea.
Pain in lumbar region and sacrum , especially during exertion in daytime and while sitting ; pain, sore aching ; back not sensitive to touch.
Pressure in sacrum like a heavy load, as if it would burst.
Pain in sacrum : a sort of crick in back ; extends along spine to nape of neck ; < in evening, or goes into lower limbs.
Sudden violent stitch in sacrum while walking in open air.
Pain in back and sacrum so violent that he has to keep in bed, some palpitation, no appetite, no stool, but frequent discharge of pale yellow urine.
As if beaten in sacrum, or dislocated feeling.
Feels palpitation even in os coccyx.
Dry feeling in os coccyx.

Upper limbs

Shoulder joint as if dislocated.
Convulsive shakes in left shoulder.
Tearing in right shoulder.
Shooting in axilla.
Icy feeling in right axilla and left inner ankle.
Rheumatism of right deltoid worse when moving joint backward, with great weakness in loins, costiveness and less urination.
Spasmodic pains in left upper arm below deltoid, followed by a similar pain in right upper leg.
Sprained feeling in deltoid and as if thousands of splinters were in it when lifting arm ; at 5 P. M.
Drawing pain : from left upper arm to forearm ; in muscles of left forearm.
Tearing in left upper arm, lower teeth and left ear, with violent itching in ear ; pains < from lying on sore side ; from 2 P. M. till evening.
Irregular and hurried movements of arms.
Twitching and spasms in arms, ceasing when doing hard work with hands.
Violent shock of left arm, followed by wavelike twitchings of abdominal muscles ; during siesta.
Upper arm shaken like from an electric shock.
Subsultus tendinum on upper arm.
Such constant motions of upper limbs that pulse cannot be felt, lower limbs are drawn up to trunk ; t.
Irregular quick motions in upper limbs ; t.
Tension in left upper arm.
Has to put his arms often into another position.
Violent laming or paralytic pain in left hand and arm five minutes after palpitation commences.
Cannot lift his arm ; arms are stiff.
Prostration, weariness and paralytic feeling in left arm.
Burning above left elbow.
Itching on arms.
Burning itching on both hands, as if frozen ; parts hot, swollen, red.
Burning itching pimples size of millet-seed on arms.
A small painful abscess on middle of right deltoid.
Violent rheumatic pains in forearm, extending into thumb ; afternoon, in rest.
Drawing in forearm, in left, or both.
Tearing drawing pains in left elbow joint.
Rheumatic or gouty stiffness of left hand and elbow joint.
Electric stitches in olecranon of each arm.
In point of elbow, coldness like from ice.
Forearm : tearing in bones of left ; tearing between bones ; strong painless pulsation near and above right olecranon ; tension, lameness and numbness ; starting and quivering on upper surface of right hand, extending to ball
of hand ; pressive trembling in right hand.
In extensor side of right forearm, sudden awful pain like thousands of splinters, with a momentary sensation as if he would lose consciousness.
Sensation like from splinters in point of left elbow.
Burning in front of left forearm near wrist as if he had burnt himself.
Burning itching on right forearm ; after scratching, white nodules, size of millet-seed, and furfuraceous peeling off.
Itching on point of elbow.
Tearing : in left wrist ; in both hands.
Burning sore pain in skin of right hand from wrist to thumb and index finger ; slightest touch with finger painful.
Trembling and coldness of hands. θ From overwork at desk.
Trembling of hands. θ Typhus.
Right hand unsteady while writing ; arm feels paralyzed from much writing.
Left hand up to forearm asleep at night in bed ; from leading a little boy during a walk.
Cold hands.
Hands chilly, nails blue, with a small, hard pulse and prostration of whole body, at noon.
Face and hands blue and icy cold.
Sometimes a warm sweat on palms.
Itching on right wrist.
Itching, redness and burning in hands like chilblains.
Tearing burning in thumbs, stitches like needles.
Spasmodic pain in thumb.
Tearing between thumb and index finger.
Drawing, tearing in left index finger as from splinters.
Burning and crawling in right index finger as if a felon would come.
Icy cold sensation in joint of middle finger ; somewhat reddened and sensitive to touch ; violent tearing.
Finger often deadens and remains a long time sensitive to cold.
Tearing in left little finger.
Frequent sudden motions of right fingers.
Tearing in joints and drawing, as if in periosteum, of all fingers.
Stiffness in fingers from gout.
Fingers itch, burn and look red, as if frost-bitten.
Points of fingers blue ; t.
Nails blue.

Lower limbs

Pains over both hip joints, he gets up stiff.
Tensive, pressing tearing in hip joints as if heads of bones were pulled from sockets.
Violent ischiatic pain ; neither touch nor pressure, neither walking nor rest has any influence, but < by stooping or change position.
Stretching pain in acetabula.
Stitches, pressing and feeling of dislocation or as if beaten in hip joint.
Coldness in region of trochanter ; at intervals shaking, pushing concussions now in left hip, now in right hand, commencing in joints of lower limbs.
Pains in legs, especially in region of right hip joint, like from fatigue.
Itching on condyles of hip bone.
Violent pains in limbs, especially left hip under gluteal muscles.
In left buttock violent tearing with sensation of coldness, wakening him out of sleep.
Twitching of gluteal muscles.
Icy coldness from glutei down to feet, most in big toes, with numbness and twitches.
Furuncle on right gluteus, size of hen's egg, very painful, discharging black blood on seventh day, with most violent burning pains ; lasted five days.
Pressing in thighs, < in right.
Sensation of a plug on outer side of thigh, above knee.
Rending drawing in thigh, extending to knee.
Tendons of thigh are stretched.
From groin down to middle of anterior thigh, violent contraction in flexors.
Tearing from hip joint to knee, with numbness.
Crossing legs causes pain in thighs.
Thighs pain as after a long journey on foot.
Painful weariness and heaviness in thighs.
Electric stitches or spasmodic pain in anterior part of thigh.
Burning, itching on inner and anterior portion of thigh.
Biting and burning pimples above knee.
All along flexor side of thigh violent burning, and later a thick rash like from nettles.
On front of thigh and on buttocks very painful furuncles.
In knee joint : drawing, tearing, stinging ; weakness ; sprained feeling.
Tearing drawing in knee ; < sitting, > walking.
Violent stitches in both knees, followed by weakness.
Muscular twitches, or weakness in knees, they knock together.
Itching, violent pain, a tremulous feeling, or coldness on a small spot in bend of knee.
Pain in bones of lower legs, sometimes as if in periosteum.
Pains in bones of legs, as if in marrow.
Violent pressing pains in left tibia beginning in morning, < at noon, > afternoon and evening.
Pains similar to syphilitic bone-pain, not worse in warmth of bed, but rather better.
Tearing drawing pains in shin bones, < sitting, > walking.
Burning in tibia.
Pains in legs most marked when standing or sitting ; > when walking or from motion.
Dull pain along tibia ; drawing pains in shin.
In calves : tearing ; painful contraction ; stitches ; burning ; heaviness.
While walking, alternate stretching and flexion in lower limbs, causing a strange lifting and sinking of body, accompanied by merry, incoherent talking ; t.
Heaviness, weariness, or a tearing with a paralytic numbness in lower legs.
Painful prostration in legs, cannot go up-stairs.
The legs ache as after a prostrating sickness.
Lower limbs weak, weary, cannot support body, cannot stand, has to sit.
Heaviness : as if lead was hanging on legs ; with languor.
Weight in legs ; they feel weary and as if they had been knocked from under.
Weak and heavy in legs all day ; yellow urine.
On crossing thighs he feels a violent pain in them.
Trembling of lower limbs.
Electric shock through lower limbs, most in left, suddenly awaking him.
Jerking motion in lower limbs.
Sudden concussions in legs.
Muscular twitching, followed by biting itching on soles.
In lower limbs : coldness, burning, evening and night copious sweat.
At night in warmth of bed an itching, forcing to scratch, leaving bloody streaks.
Burning on right lower leg.
Burning itching, skin dry and peeling or small nodules.
Sweats much on lower leg.
Drawing, pressive pains in legs ; especially in ankles.
Pain < in standing, has to walk or sit.
Pains in ankle joint waken him at 2 A. M.
Crampy pain in ankle joints extending over heels ; shooting burning pains.
Crawling and itching on dorsi of feet.
Shooting in metatarsal bones and feet while walking.
Feet cold like ice up to ankles.
Burning in feet, as if blood was glowing in veins.
Great weakness, heaviness, or formication in feet.
Stiffness in tendo-achillis.
Heels as if beaten, when standing.
In soles : tearing, shooting, like splinters, biting itching.
Cramp in soles at night.
Right little toe pains as from narrow shoes, in left second toe same sensation in a corn.
In big toe : tearing , jerking pain, digging, sudden stitches like splinters.
In all the toes : drawing , digging, shooting , crawling or prickling ; painful swellings, like nails growing in ; itching , burning and redness, as if frost-bitten.
Pain and inflammation of frost-bitten toes.
Chilblains.
Violent pains in a corn on right little toe.

Limbs in general

Tearing in left forearm and right thigh.
Tearing in limbs, < in rest or sitting, > moving.
Shooting pains : in all limbs ; most in knees and nape of neck ; right knee < going up-stairs ; in fingers and toes.
Violent pains all night along back, on chest, in loins and legs.
Pain in right knee and left hand ; pain shifts about every third day ; during attack cough only on moving about ; pains < when he begins to move about in morning. θ Rheumatism.
Tearing and drawing in tubular bones, < in their ends.
Pains in bones of legs and forearm, alternating with similar pains in right tibia.
Cracking and other noises in joints.
Trembling of limbs.
Restless, tremulous feeling in upper and lower limbs, with shaking and twitching.
Subsultus tendinum.
All the limbs as if beaten, after slight exertion.
After repeated and severe epistaxis, great soreness and bruised feeling of joints of limbs.
Muscular soreness as it remains in some cases after fever, in attacks of influenza.
Violent ulcerative pains in limbs prevent sleep at night, from left elbow to little finger, and from calves to heel, with beating pains in little toe ; general heat. θ A
young, leprous lame girl.
Feels as if her limbs did not belong to her.
Pains in limbs with lameness and numbness.
Weakness and coldness in limbs. θ Chorea.
Limbs cold, blue ; t.
Livid limbs. θ Typhus.
Formication in upper and lower limbs, as if gone to sleep.

Rest. position. motion

In rest : pains in forearm, metatarsus, toes ; symptoms generally <.
In standing : vertigo ; headache ; pressure in stomach ; tension in groin ; prostration in chest ; very painful palpitation ; pain in sacrum, loins, thumb, legs, knees, heels and toes ;
legs weak.
Uncertain footing when standing. θ From overwork at desk.
Stooping : nose stopped up ; stitches under ribs ; oppression at heart ; spine pains.
After using flexors : most after stooping or bending forward, painful tension and soreness in different places.
When sitting : vertigo ; headache ; pressure in stomach ; cutting in diaphragm ; colic-like spasm in stomach ; tension in groin ; itching on scrotum ; dry cough ; pressure on chest ; sudden violent
stitches in chest ; tension lower part of chest ; anxious, irregular beats of heart ; sore as if beaten in neck, loins, back, sacrum , hips, thighs , knees, shinbone, buttocks
and lower limbs ; stitches on outer ankle ; tearing in inner heel, foot, big toe, little toe and corns ; cramps in muscles ; painful sensations in anus disappear.
Has to sit down when cough comes.
After changing position, most when rising from sitting and using extensor muscles, different, painful and other sensations in limbs.
Lying on back : rattling in chest ; pain in occiput through to glabella.
Pain in sacrum and loins lying on right side, > turning to left Worse lying on suffering side.
Lying in bed : headache, extending to left ear.
Lying down : rushing in right ear ; palpitation ; shocks at heart ; pains in loins, sacrum, knees ; shaking chill ; twitches of muscles.
With every attempt at voluntary motion twitches are increased ; no twitchings at night. θ Chorea.
Moderate motion : relieves pain in limbs, in head and limbs, in small of back, in knees, in corn, also weakness.
Motion : moving head, neck hurts ; any motion of body, back pains ; chilly ; joints crack ; pressure in eyes ; eyeballs burn ; hands tremble ; tension lower part of chest.
From slightest exertion : copious sweat.
In going up-stairs : greatest weariness in lower limbs.
Walking up hill : makes him faint.
Worse in walking : vertigo ; headache ; thirst ; stitches in chest ; pain in knees, they give way ; pain in lower limbs, in ankle joint, heel, metatarsus, soles.
From walking : vertigo ; oppression of stomach ; colic ; difficult breathing ; stitches in lungs ; stitches in sacrum ; pressure in upper part of chest.
Uncertainty in walking, tumbling over everything in the way.
Unsteady walk. θ Chorea.
While walking, pains in lower limbs and groins disappear.
Thigh most affected and painful after walking.
In writing : lameness in upper arm ; weariness in forearm ; uncertainty in hand ; cramp in ball of thumb.
If she reaches for an object, she usually misses her mark. θ Clonic spasms of eyes.
Uncertainty in his carriage and when walking. θ Chorea.
He stumbles over everything in his way.
Learned to walk and to speak with difficulty, and at a late date. θ Clonic spasms of eyes.
In turning around : pain in back or neck.

Nerves

Increase of strength during delirium ; t.
The slightest influence of the will seems to have the most powerful effect ; t.
All motions are much easier and are made with much more dexterity ; t.
Extraordinary strength of muscles. θ Epilepsy.
They lift up heavy loads and carry them with great facility for distances ; t.
It seems as if they were dancing, they make the strangest pantomimes with the hands ; t.
They run to places where they had no intention to go ; t.
Nervous excitement bordering on convulsions.
Extreme wakefulness and restlessness, and continual fever.
At night, 3 A. M., awakes with an inner restlessness in all voluntary muscles, followed by a trembling and finally an irresistible playing and twitching of all muscles.
Very restless. θ Typhus.
Trembling of lower jaw and lips.
Chattering of jaws and trembling of limbs. θ Typhoid fever.
Great weakness and trembling. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Tremulous sensation in whole body.
Tremor of whole body. θ Typhus.
Trembling of parts or all over. θ Chorea.
Trembling, with anxiousness and prostration.
Trembling of legs and hands, with debility ; soreness of spine ; < at approach of thunder-storm.
Twitching of muscles in different places, now here, now there ; subsultus tendinum.
Twitching and spasms during sleep.
Muscular twitchings grow more violent ; only a few hours sleep. θ Chorea.
Twitchings : of eyelids and eyeballs ; of cheeks : in chest posteriorly ; in abdomen.
Twitching of arms ceased when patient used them in his work of shoemaking. θ Chorea.
Involuntary movements (especially with children) while awake ; ceasing during sleep. θ Chorea.
As soon as she opened her eyes in morning the two eyeballs began to turn to right and left at intervals of half a second, and this continued all day.
Spasmodic motions, from simple involuntary motions and jerks of single muscles, to a dancing of whole body. θ Chorea. θ Hysteria.
Eclampsia.
Frequent attacks of slight convulsions. θ Clonic spasms of eyes.
Cramps in hands and feet ; body convulsed, as if a galvanic battery was applied to spine.
Convulsions and tremor.
Convulsions, fever with hot head, lying in a lethargic state ; distortion of eyes and crying out in sleep. θ Nystagmus.
Catalepsy.
Epilepsy : with great exertion of strength ; from fright, every seven days : he falls and lies almost motionless ; from suppressed eruptions ; two or three attacks a week, after suppression of tinea capitis ; attacks increase at first and lessen gradually.
Discomfort and heaviness in whole body ; general indescribable malaise.
Great debility.
Powerlessness and great weariness, had to remain in bed on account of great weakness.
Great prostration and inability to think.
Exhaustion with delirium ; t.
Debility : after coitus ; with trembling of limbs ; from least exertion, with frequent palpitation ; with vertigo.
Gets tired from a short walk.
(OBS :) Greatest lassitude with irresistible drowsiness, > after eating.
Great lassitude and heaviness in limbs, after a short walk, or even in bed, accompanied by anxiety and trembling. θ Incipient tuberculosis.
Great weakness and viscous sweats ; t.
Sense of languor as if body were bruised and joints dislocated. θ Headache.
Sense of uneasiness and weakness all down spine. θ Headache.
Paralysis of lower limbs, with slight spasms of arms.
Paralysis of upper and lower limbs. θ Incipient softening of spinal marrow.
Paraplegia from congestion of lumbar part of cord.
A child, æt. 15 months, paralyzed all over, eyes turned, face bluish pale, puffed up, small, irregular pulse, slight tearing and twitches in upper limbs ; t.
In all paralyzed parts, violent pains.

Sleep

Very frequent gaping all day.
Gaping : followed each time by involuntary laughter ; makes him giddy ; and sneezing, with pain in maxillary joint ; with stretching, most of arms ; and shaking chill.
Frequent yawning : before spasms, or paroxysms of headache.
Drowsiness, cannot resist sleep, even soon after getting up.
Irresistible drowsiness in day time. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Early in evening very sleepy ; has to go to bed, but a peculiar fear as if somebody would come and disturb him prevents sleep for hours.
Great drowsiness and weariness during day ; at night a rush of ideas prevents sleep.
Sleepy and heavy headed, mist before eyes, pressure in eyes, lower limbs very tired.
Sleepiness, especially after or even while eating.
Afternoon drowsy and weary, with sexual desire.
Weary and drowsy by day, sleepless at night. θ From overworking at desk.
On falling asleep starts, twitches ; sudden complete awakening. θ Chorea.
Sopor and convulsions ; t.
Coma, with paralysis of face and limbs. θ Typhus.
Convulsive affections, which cease during sleep.
During sleep, one does not notice any motion of eyes whatever. θ Clonic spasms of eyes.
Uneasy, restless sleep ; from violent itching and burning of skin.
Restless night and chilliness.
Tosses about from annoying crawls over whole body, head, chest, abdomen and feet.
Restless nights, suffers pain in back, chest, loins and thighs.
Restless night, a burning itching pain on different parts awakens him.
Restless night, a heaviness in whole body, in head, chest, abdomen and feet induces him to toss about.
Unpleasant dreams waking him from sleep.
Dreams he could not open his mouth on account of pain in maxillary joint, and that they made him smell caustic ammonia, which wakened him.
Dreams as if he was walking up and down in his room and reading, while he was sure he was in his bed ; could not overcome it.
In his dreams, anxiety as if suffocating.

Time

At night : frequent anxious waking ; tearing pain in scalp ; buzzing in ears ; sneezing in sleep ; pain in cracked lip ; toothache, after midnight ;
grinding teeth can elderly man).
At 2 A. M. : pain in ankle joint.
Morning : itching of scalp ; spasm of eyes ; tongue coated ; hunger without appetite ; diarrhœa ; excited sexual desire ; cough > ; mucous sputa ; rattling of phlegm in chest ; pulse more frequent ; spine more sensitive ; pains
in tibia begin ; pain in right knee and left hand <.
Towards noon : headache ; stitch like a needle over left brow ; trembling of left upper lid ; nausea ; pressing around navel ; disagreeable full, heavy feeling in anus ; stinging and tension in chest ;
backache ; pain in both tibiæ ; out of humor.
At noon : headache ; pressure like a piece of sand under upper lid ; trembling of left upper lid ; very unpleasant , saltish, bitter, sweetish metallic taste, most on root of tongue ; cramp in
stomach ; sudden stitch in region of liver ; colic ; pressure, heat and itching in anus ; cough with sneezing ; pain in chest, in region of heart ; stitch in sacrum ; in left tibia ; burning runs all along corn in little toe.
Afternoon : dizziness and dull head ; pain over eyes, in vertex, in occiput ; painful sensitiveness in upper part of nose ; coryza : toothache and pain in lower jaw ; nauseous sweetish taste ; violent thirst ;
frequent belching ; pressure or burning and digging pain in epigastrium ; dull pressure in hypochondrium ; stitches in region of spleen ; rumbling in abdomen ; cutting in upper and later in lower abdomen ; soft, dark green
stool ; stool with copious urination ; urine milky, fiery ; drawing in both testicles ; violent cough ; pressure here and there in chest ; sudden stitches deep in chest ; soreness in chest < ; constant pressure near
heart and uninterrupted palpitation ; irregular beats of heart ; neck puffed up ; sudden violent stitch in sacrum ; pain and lameness in arm ; pains in elbow and forearm ; burning in right thumb ; in right hip joint, and
along outside of lower leg, annoying pains ; drawing, tearing in thigh ; electric shock through legs ; giving way of knee with painful drawing on back of left lower leg ; stinging in right little toe ; pains in corns ;
epileptic shock of body ; sleepiness ; crawling all over.
In evening : general malaise ; dizziness with loss of sight and weakness ; double sight ; momentary jerk in side of head ; viscous yellow moisture in internal canthi ; bubbling noise in right ear and noise as if bells were
ringing in distance ; warmth in face ; front teeth as if too long and sensitive ; bad taste returns, with chest and abdominal symptoms ; tip of tongue feels sore ; more appetite, even ravenous hunger ;
sudden nausea and vomiting of food ; burning in scrobiculum, with a spasmodic drawing up into chest ; digging, pinching cutting in abdomen ; cutting itching in rectum ; tension in right groin ; unpleasant sensation in urethra ;
drawing in testicles, < cough with blowing nose or expectoration of phlegm ; stitches in lung ; violent palpitation ; burning or itching on sternum ; quivering in muscles of right loin ;
tension along whole spine ; pains in back of sacrum ; itching on back and inflamed nodules ; tearing in left upper arm ; stitches like needles in left thumb ; in right hip joint and outside of right lower leg very tormenting pains ; electric shock in lower
limbs ; pains in lower limbs ; burning in upper part of foot and violent pains in little toe ; pains in corns ; gaping ; weakness ; crawls and chills, shaking chill ; attack of
heat ; sweat without heat.

Temperature and weather

Very sensitive to cool air.
Cold air : increases earache and toothache ; looking out of an open window, toothache and pains in limbs ; easily chilled, least cool air makes "goose skin."
Easily chilled on slight movement, and in a cooler air, or if cold finger touches a warm part of body.
Very sensitive to cold, mostly hands and feet ; his face is pale and haggard.
In cold weather <, especially headache.
When lifting bedcovers at night, crawling and shaking chill.
To drink cold water after it increases effect and lengthens it ; t.
After a swallow of cold water : toothache ; nausea.
Washing or bathing palliates.
Itching, burning and redness of fingers, toes and other parts, as though they had been frozen.
Complaints from frost. θ Headache. θ Chilblains.
Chilblains, frost-bite, and all consequences of exposure to cold, particularly in face.
In open air : vertigo > or < ; pressing in eye ; momentary attacks of drunkenness ; headache ; nausea ; colic, stitches in sacrum ; dulness ; drowsiness.
Walking in open air : staggering ; at stitch like lightning through brain ; half-sided digging headache ; vanishing of sight ; singing in right ear ; pressure in stomach ; sensation like a dislocation in groin ;
sudden violent stitches in sacrum ; painful drawing in right foot ; tired in feet, weak ; a painful pressure in region of right nipple, feeling as if a deep breath would remove its cause ; frequent gaping.
After walking in open air : such a sudden weakness that he can hardly get along ; severe fluid stools with burning in anus, and a copious sweat even on scalp ; pulse frequent and small.
In room : vertigo < or > ; nausea ; chilliness ; all symptoms < in-doors and in rest.
In bright sunshine : as if drunken Heat of sun : caused violent vertigo.
In warmth of bed : feet burn.
Vertebræ sensitive to a hot sponge. θ Chorea.
Worse before a thunder-storm. θ Chorea.

Fever

Shiverings over body, run from above downward.
Shudders : with bitter vomiting after supper, lasting all night.
Feels chilly with headache, giddiness, cold hands and feet ; chilly feeling runs along limbs.
Chilly feeling : with gaping ; blue hands ; want of strength ; bad humor ; dull senses and no appetite ; at noon.
Feels chilly all the time, cannot get warm in room, early in morning.
After sleep a chilly sensation all over, but most in feet.
Chilly on slight movement, or from raising bedclothes.
Great chilliness in open air, strikes through whole body.
Inner chilliness : with cool skin ; with natural warmth of skin ; in evening.
Sensation as if touched by ice, keeping time with pulse.
Sensation of coldness on right side of frontal bone, though the surface is warm to touch.
Coldness on buttocks.
Cold hands and toes, with contracted pulse.
Cold and blue limbs ; t.
Coldness and heat in alternation, towards evening.
Unpleasant coolness in whole body after going to bed.
Body cold, head hot.
Partial chill on upper part of body.
Chill with warm face, hands and feet.
Shaking chill with gaping ; chill continues until he shakes.
Chill in back as if cold water was running down, if he leans back in chair.
Feverish chill every evening without thirst and without heat.
Shaking chills when lifting his bedcover.
During violent shaking chill, after undressing in evening, a peculiar inclination to laugh.
A gradually increasing rigor, face and hands bluish, icy cold ; pulse very small and hard, forenoon 10 to 11.
Attacks of rigor, shaking whole body ; cold hands, tremble when writing ; face warm, no thirst, and no heat following.
Violent rigor with gooseflesh, followed by heat in head, painful throbbing in forehead and sweat.
After dozing awhile, violent rigor, chattering of teeth, he lies doubled up, violent headache, hands blue, no thirst.
Heat slight, chiefly on upper part of body.
Heat in face and upper half of body in repeated attacks, lasting five to ten minutes.
Heat all over : becomes burning, he has to uncover lower limbs ; blood seems to run glowing through vessels ; pulse strong, hard, tense and more frequent, disappearing gradually after midnight.
Heat at night ; turning in bed or lifting covers makes her chilly.
Violent attacks of heat, evenings ; cheeks glowing, hands cold, continual thirst, no sweat.
Frequent attacks of fever with heat in head, associated with a soporific state, rolling of eyes and screaming during sleep. θ Clonic spasms of eyes.
Heat and sweat in attacks, all afternoon, with a dull headache, no thirst.
General heat with cold finger ends, dry lips, thirst, clean tongue, want of appetite, with violent pains in upper and lower limbs. θ A young leprous girl.
Continual heat followed by sweat.
Anxious palpitation causing sweat to break out at night.
Sweat most on lower limbs, evening and night.
Sweat all forenoon.
Night-sweat, towards morning, with relief.
Much sweat with fainting.
Sweat all over, even on scalp.
Cold sweats ; t.
Viscous sweat and great prostration ; t.
With sweat exhausted feeling and trembling of limbs, canine hunger.
Sweat : greasy, but not offensive, all night, during sleep ; from least exertion ; often only on front of body ; at night, especially about legs ; cold, on face, neck and chest ; profuse.
Sweat when walking or with slightest exertion.
(OBS :) Slight exercise causes sweat ; oily night-sweats. θ Incipient tuberculosis.
Coma following febrile excitement of dentition ; eyes half open, showing whites ; breathing not hurried, but often a deep inspiration, followed by a sigh and slight convulsive twitchings of extremities.
(OBS :) Ataxic typhus.
(OBS :) Obstinate, intermittent.

Attacks, periodicity

Periodicity. In attacks : itching on scalp ; violent pressure on right eyeball upward and outward ; coughing ; pain in sternum ; pain between eighth and ninth dorsal vertebra ; heat in face.
Momentary stitches in eyeball.
Pressure first in left, then in right eyebrow.
After toothache lessens, complaints in abdomen return.
Periodical drawing up into os hyoideum.
Gets awake exactly at midnight three nights in succession.
Every seven days. θ Epileptic attacks.

Locality and direction

Very often complaints appear diagonally ; that is, appear in upper left and lower right side. [Obs. If we compare the symptoms of our Materia Medica with regard to right and left sides, we will find that in many of them there is a decided
difference between the upper and lower limbs as regards the sides, one or the other side predominating. Amanita is one of the few remedies in which the symptoms appear at the same time on opposite sides, but diagonally. If, after giving a medicine, the symptoms do not disappear in a
reverse direction to their origin, we may know it is not the right remedy].
From within outward : stitches in chest and belly.
From without inward : pressing, boring, drawing pains.
From below up : a cutting boring from nostrils up to frontal bone ; drawing from pelvis up to hypochondria.
From back to front : violent momentary tearing through chest.
From left to right : shooting headache ; painful drawing in forehead ; pressure above eyes ; pain in temples ; running coryza ; griping in belly ; pain in tibia ; splinter sensation in lower limbs.
From right to left : stitches in temples ; burning soreness in back.
Worse left side : inner head, external ears, teeth, abdomen, groin, male parts, shoulder, upper and forearm.
Worse right side : outer head, hypochondrium, loins and lower limbs.
Very few semilateral symptoms.

Sensations

Heaviness, as after drunkenness ; as though sharp ice touched head or cold needles pierced it ; as if a nail was thrust in right side of head ; various in left half of occipital bone ; as from subcutaneous ulcers in scalp ; stitch as of an ice cold
needle in ear ; as if ears, nose and face had been frost-bitten ; as if splinters had been run into jaw ; as from needles in chin ; teeth feel too long ; as from pepper on tip of tongue ; as from an astringent on tongue and in throat ; as if a foreign body
stuck in fauces ; cravat feels too tight ; burning-cooling feeling, as after eating cress, along œsophagus ; dull pressure as from a foreign body in stomach ; jerking as of some heavy object in stomach ; legs as if picked all over with ice cold needles ; as if
liver had increased in weight ; as of a swelling from left hypogastrium to back ; hollowness in abdomen ; as if wrenched in loins ; crawling as from worms in anus ; coldness down legs when urinating ; stitch as from a red-hot iron in urethra ; painful
retraction of testes towards inguinal ring ; disagreeable crawling in front of penis, has to squeeze it ; anxious sensation in chest ; as if cavity of thorax was narrowed ; feeling of a lump in epigastrium ; felt several blows in heart with trembling ; like
splinters in pectoralis near nipple, and in back ; as after continued pain in back ; shocks starting from lower vertebræ ; as if cold air was spreading from spine over body ; as if touched below shoulder blade by a piece of ice ; spine as if too weak to
support ; as of ants creeping along spine ; as of a heavy load in sacrum, as if it would burst ; a sort of crick in back ; as if beaten in sacrum, or dislocated feeling ; feels palpitation in os coccyx ; as if thousands of splinters were in deltoid, extensor
side of right forearm, in l. elbow and index finger ; hands as if frostbitten ; as of an electric shock in upper arm ; as if a felon would come in right index finger ; as if heads of thighbones were pulled from their sockets ; shaking pushing concussions in left hip,
in right hand, in joints of lower limbs ; as of a plug on outer side of thigh above knee ; pain in thighs as after a long journey on foot ; as if lead was hanging on legs ; electric shock in lower limbs, most in left ; sudden concussions in legs ; as if blood
was glowing in veins of feet ; like splinters in soles ; pains in toes as from narrow shoes ; like splinters in big toe ; painful swellings in toes like nails growing in ; toes as if frost-bitten ; as if her limbs did not belong to her ; as if touched by
ice, keeping time with pulse ; as if cold water was running down back ; as from living quicksilver in different parts ; as if whole body was shaken inwardly ; as if cold needles ran through nerves ; as if whole body would dwindle to nothing ; as if skin was
pasted on.
Pain : in temples ; around eyes ; in left ear during menses ; in left articulation of jaw ; in superior maxilla and teeth ; in right hypochondrium ; in stomach and liver ; in left hypochondrium ; deep in umbilical region ; in loins to
legs ; in chest ; in left intercostal muscles ; in back ; along spinal column ; in first and second lumbar vertebræ ; in sacrum ; over both hip joints ; in legs ; in right hip joint ; in left hip under gluteal muscles ; in bend of
knee ; in bones of lower legs ; in ankle joint ; in frost-bitten toes ; in corn on right little toe ; in paralyzed parts.
Spasmodic pains : in left upper arm ; in right upper leg ; in thumb.
Lancinating : in right cheek.
Jerking stitches : through right lung.
Twitching shocks : of heart.
Gnawing : below shoulder blades.
Ulcerative pains : in limbs, from left elbow to little finger ; from calves to heel.
Cutting : in abdomen ; in anus.
Biting : in anus ; on back ; on soles.
Biting itching : on scalp ; in soles.
Smarting : in tip of tongue ; in anus.
Burning : in vertex ; in head ; in inner canthi ; of ears ; in face ; in tip of tongue ; in region of heart ; below sternum ; in stomach ; in abdomen ; in anus ; in hemorrhoids ; in left chest ; in region of
heart ; pimples on outer chest ; deep in spine ; in a small place on spine ; on back ; above left elbow ; of hands ; in pimples on arms ; in front of left forearm near wrist ; on right forearm ; in skin of right hand from wrist to thumb and
index finger ; in hands ; in thumbs ; in right index finger ; in glutei muscles ; in furuncle on right gluteus ; on thigh ; pimples above knee ; in tibia ; in calves ; in legs ; in ankle joints to heels ; in feet ; in
toes ; of skin ; internal and external ; miliary eruption.
Stitches : in head ; in ears ; in left mastoid process ; from fauces along right eustachian tube ; in region of liver ; under short ribs, left side ; in region of cecum ; in loins ; in anus ; in right kidney ; in urethra ; in
middle of chest ; behind sternum ; in left breast ; in right lung ; between sternum and nipple ; in region of heart ; in different parts of thorax ; in cervical muscles ; on dorsal vertebræ ; in sacrum ; in olecranon of each arm ; in
thumbs ; in hip joint ; in anterior part of thigh ; in knees ; in calves ; in big toe.
Stinging : in knee joint.
Shooting pain : in temples ; from right lower teeth to side of head ; in region of heart ; in outer chest ; in nape of neck ; in back below shoulder blades ; deep in spine ; in single vertebræ ; in axillæ ; in knees ; in ankle
joints ; in metatarsal bones and feet ; in soles ; in toes.
Pricking : in head ; in chin ; in rectum and anus ; in chest ; in fingers ; in toes.
Sticking : under nipple ; in apex of heart ; between shoulder blades.
Tearing pain : in left half of brain ; in right ear ; in face and jaw bones ; in right side of lower jaw ; in loins ; in anus ; in right shoulder ; in left upper arm, lower teeth and left ear ; in left elbow joint ; in left wrist ;
in hands ; in thumbs ; between thumb and index finger ; in left index finger ; in joint of middle finger ; in left little finger ; in joints of fingers ; in hip joints ; in left buttock ; from hip joint to knee ; in knee joint ; in
shinbones ; in calves ; in soles ; in big toe ; in left forearm and right thigh ; in tubular bones.
Twitching pain : in bladder ; in back during menses ; in outer chest ; below shoulder blades ; in arms.
Jerking pain : in teeth ; in big toe.
Pinching : below umbilicus.
Digging : in big toe ; in all toes.
Burrowing pain : in temples.
Spasmodic drawing : from pit of stomach into chest ; in l. testicle and spermatic cord.
Drawing pain : in temples ; in head ; into root of nose ; in right cheek ; in pit of stomach ; in right hypochondrium ; in testicles ; in chest ; in region of diaphragm ; from back to middle of chest ; from left upper arm to
forearm ; in forearms ; in left elbow joint ; as if in periosteum of fingers ; from thigh to knee ; in knee joints ; in shinbones ; in shin ; in legs ; in ankles ; in toes ; in tubular bones.
Dull pains : in forehead ; along tibia.
Soreness : of eyeballs ; of tongue ; in anus ; in chest ; in r. chest near nipple ; deep in chest in two spots ; in back ; of joints, after epistaxis ; muscular, after fever or influenza.
Cramplike pain : in temples ; from middle of spine into stomach ; into thighs ; as if she must have a child ; in ankle joints to heels ; in soles ; in muscles ; erratic.
Oppressive pains : in forehead.
Bearing down : in rectum ; in female sexual parts.
Stinging pressure : in chest.
Pressure : in right side of head ; in left half of brain ; in vertex ; in eyeballs ; in fauces ; from left hypogastrium to back ; in region of kidneys ; in back during menses ; like a swelling from left hypogastrium to back ; on
chest ; on right chest near nipple ; on middle of sternum ; in hip joints ; in thighs ; in left tibia ; in legs ; in ankles.
Throbbing : headache ; in vertex ; in cheeks ; in right chest near nipple ; in small spots on chest ; in os coccyx.
Painful pulsation : in spinal canal.
Scratching : in throat, after influenza.
As if beaten : in heels ; in all the limbs.
Bruised feeling : in loins ; in muscles of neck ; in muscles of back ; of joints, after epistaxis.
Stretching pain : in acetabula.
Laming pain : in loins.
Rheumatic pain : in right deltoid ; in forearm and thumb.
Contraction : of sternum.
Constriction : in cardiac region ; in chest.
Compression : of heart.
Weight : in head ; in top of head ; in legs.
Oppression : in cardiac region ; behind sternum ; at heart.
Heaviness : in head ; towards nape of neck ; in stomach ; below navel ; in abdomen ; in chest ; in thighs ; in calves ; in lower legs ; in feet.
Fulness : in temples ; in anus.
Emptiness : in abdomen.
Tension : in head ; in loins ; in left upper arm ; in lower chest ; in region of thymus gland ; in muscles of neck.
Stiffness : of muscles of face and neck ; between shoulders ; in left hand and elbow ; in fingers ; in tendo-achillis.
Lameness : in left kidney.
Laming pain : in left hand and arm.
Dislocated feeling : in sacrum ; in shoulder joint ; in hip joint.
Tremulous feeling : in bend of knee ; in upper and lower limbs ; in whole body.
Painful weariness : in thighs ; in legs.
Weariness : in lower legs.
Weakness : in eyes ; between shoulders ; in loins ; in back ; in knee joint ; in legs ; in feet.
Sprained sensation : in chest ; in neck ; in deltoid ; in knee joint.
Paralytic pain : in left hand and arm.
Paralytic weakness : in sphincter.
Paralyzed feeling : in left arm and hand ; in arm after writing.
Paralytic numbness : in lower legs.
Numbness : left side of tongue ; left hand ; in legs ; in back ; in thigh.
Crawling : over back and limbs ; in right index finger ; in toes ; over whole body.
Tickling : in orifice of urethra ; on left side of scrotum.
Formication : in feet ; in upper and lower limbs ; in glutei muscles.
Crawling itching : in urethra ; on dorsi of feet.
Uneasiness : in spine.
Itching : in inner canthi ; in left ear ; of ears ; in frost-bitten nose ; in face ; in rectum ; in anus ; in mons veneris ; in penis, foreskin and scrotum ; of female sexual parts ; with leucorrhœa ; of nipples ; pimples
on neck ; on back ; on arms ; on both hands as if frozen ; in pimples on arms ; on right forearm ; on right wrist ; in hands ; on hip bone ; on thigh ; in bend of knee ; on soles ; of skin ; between thumb and forefinger left
hand ; miliary eruption ; whitish nodules on abdomen and legs ; small nodules deep in skin.
Itching stitches : on different parts of body.
Burning cooling : along œsophagus to stomach.
Heat : in eyes ; in face and upper part of body ; in anus ; running through limbs ; on point of elbow.
Icy feeling : on left side of chest near shoulder blade ; in right axilla ; in point of elbow ; in left inner ankle ; in joint of middle finger ; from glutei down to feet, most in big toes ; of feet.
Coldness : on right side of frontal bone ; in region of cervical suture ; icy, on head ; of face ; in abdomen ; of penis ; below shoulder blade ; in glutei muscles ; of hands ; in region of trochanter ; in buttocks ; in bend of
knee ; in lower limbs ; in limbs ; on right side of frontal bone ; of hands and toes.
Dryness : of tongue ; of mouth, fauces and pharynx ; in os coccyx.

Tissues

Induration of glands.
Pains in bones of face, eyes, cheeks, tubular bones, and in tibia, sometimes in elbow.
In all joints, stitching pain, stiffness in arms, back of neck and both hip joints.
All joints stiff on getting up.
Sudden tearing in tendinous tissues of different parts.
Makes blood thin.
Veins swollen, with cool skin.
Mucous membranes coated with a yellow mucus.
Muscles feel bruised from touch ; > from walking. θ Chronic rheumatism.
Pain in long bones, as if bruised, after motion.
Pains in bones morning and forenoon, especially left tibia, condyle of left elbow (like syphilitic pains ; but >, rather than <, in warmth of bed).
Joints feel as if dislocated. θ Chorea.
Obesity.
Emaciation. θ Chorea.
Dropsy.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Body sensitive to touch or pressure ; burning in canthi ; pain in spine, between vertebræ ; muscles feel bruised ; pricking in left thumb, etc.
Slight touch causes shooting, even the coming near of some one.
Touch of hair : < pressure on temple.
When touched : pain in parietal bones, in eyeballs, above eyes, maxillary joint, tip of tongue ; teeth sensitive ; stitch in throat ; abdomen sensitive ; convulsive dartings if chest or arms are touched ; small spot in middle of spine very sensitive ;
wrist-pains ; back of hand sore ; stitches in thumb ; metacarpal joint of index and middle finger.
When touching or feeling with fingers : headache < ; pain in groins ; pain in vertebræ ; all parts sensitive.
When but feeble pressure is applied to any spot, it pains a long while after.
Pressure : < pain in scalp, in left temporal bone ; pain in stomach and in hypochondria.
Sensitive to pressure : dorsal and lumbar vertebræ.
Better from pressure ; pain in temples ; boring headache ; colic in abdomen ; painless pulsation in eighth and ninth dorsal vertebræ.
Limbs sensitive to pressure. θ Chorea.
A pressure on painful parts increases pain.
Rubbing : > itching in right eye.
Scratching : > itching in scalp ; stitch over left brow.
After scratching : white nodule, size of millet-seed, furfuracious peeling of epidermis.
Better from shaving : blisters on chin.
Leaning back in chair : < pressure in sacrum.
Crossing legs : they fall asleep.
In stepping down : stitches in heel.
Slight blows : cause ecchymoses.
While riding in a carriage : tensive pain in region of bladder.

Skin

General jaundice after convulsion ; t.
Burning itching, redness and swelling, as from frostbites.
Itching stitches in various parts.
Violent itching between thumb and forefinger, left hand.
Itching and burning all over body, causing great distress. θ Chorea.
Miliary eruptions ; close and white, with burning and itching.
Feeling in skin as if it was pasted on.
Skin very smooth, most in face.
Pricking as from needles on different places.
Itching stitches on different parts of body.
Electric stitches, stitches as from splinters ; corroding biting ; itching, burning, biting, stinging.
Itching all over ; changing place ; disturbing sleep ; without any eruption.
Itching eruption of easily bleeding whitish nodules on abdomen and lower limbs, spreading.
Miliary eruption in blotches.
Small suppurating pimples between index finger and thumb ; on neck ; on sternum.
Very painful furuncle in front of thigh and on buttock very large, discharging blood, no pus.
Little red, hard pimples scattered over body, like fleabites.
Lichen pilaris urticatus.
Chronic eruptions.
Indurations and tumors ; carbuncles ; fistulous ulcers ; carious ulcer ; phagedenic ulcers.
Lichen simplex.
Sebaceous tumors.
Crusty eruptions.
Ulcers corroding and excavated.
Indolent and fistulous ulcers.
Gangrene.
The hard, rough smallpox of sheep.
Nodules in skin on neck, with cough (horses and cows).
Itching from small nodules deep in skin, especially when eyes are also affected (horses).
Epilepsy from checked eruptions.

Stage of life, constitution

Light hair ; skin and muscles lax.
Old people with indolent circulation.
Venous erethism. θ Diarrhœa.
Drunkards ; especially for their headaches.
Thin, spare girl, æt. 18. θ Chorea.
Girl, æt. 2 1/2, born with malformation of head. θ Clonic spasms of eyes.
A child, æt. 3, had a chronic nasal catarrh for eighteen months.

Relations

Similar to : Act. rac ., (delirium of alcoholism ; chorea ; spinal irritation) ; Bellad . (cerebral excitement, but more in chorea) ; Calc. ostr .
(alcoholism ; icy cold feeling on head) ; Cannab. ind . (alcoholism ; extravagant fancies) ; Cicut . (spasms of eyes) ; Codein (eyelids twitching, etc) ;
Coffea (ecstasy) ; Hyosc . (typhoid of drunkards ; loquacity, dancing, muscular twitchings, and with all tremor, tendency to stupor and feeble pulse) ; Ignat (hysterical or emotional chorea ;
sighing ; convulsive cough ; twitches ; laughing and crying) ; Laches . (loquacious delirium ; alcoholism ; typhoid of low type, tremulous protrusion of tongue ; tremor, feeble pulse, livid extremities) ; Mygale
(chorea) ; Nux. vom . (chorea ; alcoholism ; spinal irritation ; convulsions ; tremor ; paraplegic symptoms ; enlarged liver) ; Opium (alcoholism ; chorea, with spasmodic,
angular jerks of flexors ; hands tremble, slow pulse) ; Pulsat . (spinal irritation ; chorea ; chilblains, etc.) ; Sepia (icy cold feeling on head ; jerks of head and tongue, etc.) ; Sticta
(chorea with jumping and dancing) ; Stramon . (delirium tremens ; singing, laughing, dancing ; extravagant recitals ; loquacity ; chorea, with gyratory motions, etc.) ; Tarant . (chorea, one
arm and leg constantly in motion, etc.) ; Thea (verbose ; spinal irritation) ; Ver. alb . (icy cold feeling on head) ; Zincum (chorea).
Vinegar and Eau de Cologne induce fainting. Sal Ammoniæ also aggravates ; t.
Mushrooms will not grow in ground containing either iron or coal.
Antidoted by : charcoal ; coffee ; wine ; brandy ; camphor ; fat or oil (relieves stomach) ; Calc. ostr . (relieves icy coldness) ; Pulsat., Rhus tox . (nightly backache).
Atropine is said to be antagonistic to Muscarine , but they both, when topically used, dilate the pupil.
Muscarine is very similar to Pilocarpine , (jaborandi) since both cause arrest of heart's action ; profuse sweat ; salivation, lachrymation ; contracted pupils, etc. Muscarine
acts more on lachrymal glands, less on sweat and salivary glands ; Pilocarpine causes more urging to urinate.
Muscarine , given internally, contracts pupil more than Pilocarpine ; used topically, only the former dilates the pupil. Gelsem . is here similar to Muscarine .
Follow well : Bellad., Calc. ostr., Mercur., Opium, Pulsat., Rhus tox . and Silicea .
Acted well after Dulcam., Phosph. ac., Pulsat ., and Cuprum had failed. θ Chronic diarrhœa.
Cured where Bellad., Stram . and Hyosc . failed. θ Clonic spasms of eyes.

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

Generalities

The most striking things running through this medicine are twitchings and tremblings, jerkings of the muscles and trembling of the limbs; quivering and tremors, everywhere these two features are present in all parts of the body and limbs.

The twitching of the muscles becomes so extensive that it is a well-developed case of chorea. It has in its nature all that is found in chorea and has cured many cases. This is a general belonging to all parts to all muscles.

Throughout the body there is a sensation of creeping and crawling. It is hardly confined to the skin, it is felt as if in the flesh, a sensation as if of ants.

Itching of the skin all over which changes place from scratching. No place is exempt from this. There are strange sensations here and there upon the skin or in parts, cold sensations, sensations of cold needles and of hot needles; stinging and burning where the circulation is feeble, about the ears, nose, back of hands and fingers and toes, red spots with itching and burning as if frostbitten. It is a great remedy for chilblains.

The patient is extremely nervous and sensitive to cold. Itching, pricking, tingling, etc., come on from mental exertion and are relieved from physical exertion.

All the symptoms of Agaricus are also aggravated after sexual intercourse, especially in the symptoms of the spinal cord. It is useful for the symptoms which come on after coition in young, nervous married women, hysterical fainting after coition.

Mind

The mental symptoms are such as you would expect.

Great changeability, irritability, mental depression and complaints which come on from overexertion of the mind and prolonged study. The brain seems to be developed tardily.

Children are late in learning to talk and walk, thus combining the features of two remedies, Natrum muriaticum, which has the symptom "late learning to talk," and Calcarea carb., which has the symptom "late learning to walk."

It will be noticed in Calcarea that this is due to a defect in bone weakness. In Agaricus it is a mental defect, a slowly developing mind.

Children with twitching and early fainting, nervous girls prior to puberty who have convulsions from being scolded, from excitement and shock; late in mental development.

Children who cannot remember, make mistakes and are slow in learning. Nervous patients who on going over their manuscripts find out their mistakes in writing and spelling.

The condition of the mind is one in which they are slow to grasp ideas; wrong words float in kaleidoscopically.

When we read in the book "the whole psychological sphere as if paralyzed," we must read between the lines.

The whole mind and sensorium seem paralyzed; the patient is sluggish, stupid, at times seems to be delirious; there is confusion of the mind so nearly like delirium that it is not unlike intoxication.

A delirium such as is produced by alcohol. He also becomes silly, says foolish and silly things, sings and whistles at an inopportune time, makes verses and prophesies; or he lapses into an opposite state, becomes indifferent to Ids surroundings. One who is mild and placid becomes self-willed, obstinate and conceited.

Difficulty in coordinating the movements of the muscles of the body. Incoordination of brain and spinal cord. Clumsy motion of the fingers and hands. In handling things she drops them. Fingers fly open spasmodically while holding things.

You will sometimes cure Bridget in the kitchen with Agaricus or Apis, when the trouble is that she is continually breaking the dishes by letting them fall. These two remedies are opposites,

Agaricus must stay near the fire, while Apis she wants to get out of the kitchen. The awkwardness, clumsiness, etc., are both mental and bodily.

Every sort of change is rung on the patient and the doctor. At times the patient is stupid, awkward and clumsy, at other times quick and poetical, can run off poetry without effort, especially at night.

In the morning he is tired and sluggish and this may last till noon. The mental symptoms are worse in the morning and are relieved towards evening.

All jerkings and twitchings subside during sleep. There is vertigo when walking in the open air. He is always chilly. On undertaking to do something he does the opposite. Vertigo and confusion of mind are mixed up.

Head

It is a common feature for the headaches of this remedy to be associated with the spinal symptoms, the quivering and jerking.

Headaches in spinal patients. Pain as though sharp ice touched the head, or as if from cold needles. - That is general; we find it in other parts.

Pain in the head as if from a nail. There is some bleeding in the morning, and the blood is thick, black and will hardly drop. Coldness in the head.

In the scalp there are all sorts of queer sensations; icy coldness after itching or scratching. That runs all through the body. There is itching, although no eruption is visible; can't let it alone, and after scratching there is a sensation of icy coldness in the part or as if the wind was blowing on it.

The head is in constant motion as in chorea. Itching of the scalp, especially in the morning on rising.

There again we have the general aggravation in the morning. There are marked eruptions on the scalp. Eczema with crusts.

Eyes

Twitching and jerking of the eyes.

You will observe this about the Agaricus eyes; as the patient looks at you there is a pendulum like action of the eyes, they go back and forth all the time; they oscillate, though he tries his best to fix his look on you.

This stops only during sleep; all the motions subside during sleep. A few other medicines have cured this eye symptom, Cicuta, Arsenicum, Sulphur, Pulsatilla, but Agaricus also produces and cures it.

There is every conceivable kind of deception in colors and in vision. Flickering before the eyes; he reads with difficulty. Objects seem to be where they are not. Black flies before the eyes; black motes; sees double; floating flies before the eyes.

Muscular weakness of the eyes. Irregularity of the motions of the eyes; pupils dilated; pupils contracted. Sensation as of a mist or cobweb before the eyes. Spasmodic twitching and jerking. The jerkings and twitchings are the most marked symptoms, as also the choreic movements about the eyes, and the deceptions in colors and figures before the eyes.

Ears

Redness, burning and itching of the ears as if they had been frostbitten.

The sensation as of chilblains, the same sensation as found throughout; the same itching and tingling as of the remedy in general. Dullness of hearing. Deafness. Hearing acute. in the morning he is dumb, sluggish, stupid, tired, but when evening comes he brightens up, becomes warmed up, becomes excited, poetical and prophetical, wants to sit up late at night, is brilliant, wants to play games.

Nose

Nosebleed; profuse, foetid discharge from the nose.

Agaricus will cure the most inveterate chronic catarrhs with dryness and crusts, in tubercular constitutions, so deep-seated is it.

It has cured many cases of incipient phthisis. It cures old coughs and catarrhs. Red nose, as if frostbitten. It is as good as Ledum and Lachesis for the red-tipped nose in old drunkards.

Face

From what we have already seen we expect twitching of the muscles of the face, and itching and redness and burning as if frostbitten, paralytic weakness, etc., because these are general features, and just as we expect we see these things in the text.

Choreic spasms. Expression as of idiocy. Now notice this: some patients when going on with their own usual vocation are pretty smart, but if you put some new idea before them, something not in the routine of their work, they are perfectly idiotic.

This is especially noticeable in the morning. He can't take in anything new in the morning, but he is able to take in new ideas and is bright in the evening, like the effect produced by tea and coffee and alcoholic beverages.

This remedy is a great antidote to alcoholic beverages. In this remedy and in Zincum the spine is affected and both of these have aggravation from stimulants.

Agaricus has cured many cases of epileptiform convulsions, more commonly the hystero-epileptic type with frothing of the mouth, opisthotonos, drawing of the muscles of the face.

The Agaricus patient has spells in which a little muscle of the face or a few fibres of a muscle will quiver for a few minutes and stop, and then in another part of the face the same thing, an eyelid will quiver, and then another set of fibres, sometimes so bad as to nearly drive him crazy. Such is an Agaricus state as well as Nux vomica.

Mouth

The teeth feel too long and are sensitive to touch. The tongue quivers, twitches, jerks and causes disorderly speech; articulates violently.

Tongue, dry, tremulous. Learns to speak with difficulty. Spasms of the tongue, inarticulate speech. Phagedenic ulcer on the fraenum of the tongue; eats it away. Soreness of the tongue. Mercurial aphthae in roof of mouth. Little white blisters like nursing sore mouth. Chronic sore throat. Induration of tonsils. Burning thirst, ravenous appetite. Gnawing in stomach as if from hunger, without desire for food.

Abdomen

Flatus; distressing belching; great tympanites; rumbling; turmoil in abdomen; offensive flatus; rumbling and gurgling in belly. Everything ferments; rumbling and loud rolling; pinching colic. Horribly foetid discharge. Tympanitic condition marked in typhoid; low type of typhoid; trembling and jerking of muscles; paralytic weakness; emaciation; mental symptoms.

Morning diarrhea, great deal of hot flatus ( Aloe), with burning in the rectum; soft stool, great tenesmus; urging to stool violent; involuntary straining before, during and after stool.

Sensation as if rectum would burst, even after stool ( Merc. and Sul.). Violent, sudden pains; can't wait; distressing, bursting sensation.

Before stool, cutting and pinching in abdomen; urgent tenesmus; painful straining in rectum.

During stool, colic and passing of flatus; burning, soreness, smarting and cutting in anus; sweat; pain in loins to legs, continuing after stool.

After stool, headache relieved; biting in anus; straining in rectum; cutting pain in anus; griping in hypogastrium; distension in abdomen; heaviness in abdomen and around navel; pain in chest. Emphasize the tenesmus after stool.

May have constipation and paralytic feelings of the rectum; stool hard; straining at stool as if life depended on it and yet no stool.

Beginning paralysis of the lower limbs, with twitching of the muscles and burning spine. In one case, after straining had been given up as unsuccessful would pass a stool involuntarily.

This symptom only was known in Arg. n. (stool and urine). Desire to urinate as urgent as the desire for stool. Dribbling of urine. A peculiar feature of this remedy is that the urine feels cold on passing; while the urine dribbles, can count the cold drops along the urethra.

Urines

"Urine passes slowly in a stream or in drops, has to press to promote the flow."

"Urine watery, clear, lemon-colored, bright yellow; dark yellow and, hot; red, flocculent, a powdery sediment; watery in the forenoon, in the afternoon milky, like whey, with a red or white sediment (phosphate of magnesia); iridizing on surface."

Phosphates; milky urine. Oily surface, iridescent surface, greasy-like pellicle on urine, like petroleum.

Scanty urine in rheumatic, gouty, hysterical subjects. Persons cold, feeble, pale, going into phthisis. Urine becomes scanty and a headache comes on. Goes many days and is constipated, and headache relieved by stool. In Fluoric acid, if he does not attend to the desire to urinate, a headache comes on.

Genitals

Transformation takes place. The milk ceases in one day, but congestion of the brain or spine comes on. Metastasis, especially if milk ceases and complaints come on.

Genital organs cold and shrunken.

The comparative examination of the symptoms of male and female sexual organs shows that the proving has not been extensively made on the female, but in the male there are many symptoms which have an analogous condition in the female.

In the male, symptoms are worse after coition, but just as marked in the female. Complaints after sexual excitement, debauch, etc., in the woman, fainting; in the man, weakness.

The trembling and twitching, or any of the Agaricus symptoms may be worse after coition, because the sexual functions are related to the cord. Those suffering from spinal affections have distress after this act.

In the male, during coition, burning in the urethra comes from excoriation or a sense of hotness of the seminal fluid while being ejected, and hence can only be a symptom of the male.

Burning in the prostate during ejaculation. Violent sexual excitement before and during, but at the time of ejaculation the orgasm is wanting, it is a passive and pleasure less ejaculation.

This occurs in men with spinal weakness, nervous men who have tingling and crawling all over. It comes in the cure of old catarrhal discharge from the urethra, chronic gonorrhea, gleet, after all sorts of local treatment have been used.

The penis is cold and shrunken; excessively painful retraction in testes. In old gleety discharge where there is a continued itching tingling in the urethra and the last drop will remain, discharging for a long time.

There are two remedies better for this than many others, Petroleum and Agaricus.

The routine prescriber always thinks of Puls., Sep ., etc., for bearing-down pains in the female, but in a woman with spinal irritation, etc., with the dragging-down sensation as if the parts would drop into the world, this remedy is the best.

Female

Those slender, nervous, restless women with tingling and creeping, must have Agaricus.

During menses, headache, toothache, etc. All the general symptoms are worse during the menstrual period, not to any great extent before or after. Aggravation of the heart symptoms and prolapsus just at the close of the menses.

Leucorrhoea very profuse, dark, bloody, acrid, excoriating in parts. This remedy has been mentioned in relation to Fluoric acid. There are many points of relation.

They are like each other in the leucorrhoea especially, copious and acrid, so acrid that it keeps the parts raw and irritated around the genitals and the patient can't walk.

In Fluoric acid there is, with the nervous symptoms, headache ameliorated by passing the urine, or headache if urination is not immediately attended to, with copious, acrid, excoriating leucorrhoea.

Chest

Agaricus is a great remedy in chest troubles, though seldom thought of. It has cured what seemed to be consumption. Catarrhal condition of the chest, with-night sweats and history of the nervous symptoms.

Violent cough in isolated attacks ending in sneezing. Convulsive cough, with sweat towards evening, with frequent pulse, expectoration of pus-like mucus, worse in the mornings and when lying on the back. Add to this the symptoms of Agaricus as described, and Agaricus will take hold of that case.

Cases of incipient, phthisis. It closely relates to the tubercular diathesis.

I remember starting out to prove Tuberculinum on an individual I suspected would be sensitive to it from his history and symptoms. The first dose almost killed him, and, considering the use that that substance is put to in diagnosing the disease in cattle, it seemed to stir him up.

He became emaciated and looked as if he would die. I let it alone and watched and waited patiently and the symptoms of Agaricus came up and established the relationship between these two remedies, and confirmed Hering's observation of the relationship of Agaricus to the tubercular diathesis. Agaricus cured him and fattened him up.

Heart

The remedy is full of nervous palpitation; worse in the evening. It cures shocks and thrills in the heart; spasms of the heart; internal manifestations of its jerking symptoms.

These shocks come from sudden noise; from eructations; on coughing; when lying on the left side or back; worse at night; during fever; they often extend to other parts, as to abdomen or back or limbs. On the outer chest there is tingling and creeping as in general.

Back

The back has many peculiar and general guiding symptoms. Stiffness of the whole spine. Feeling as if it would break when he attempts to bend. Feels as if something is so tight that it will break when he stoops. Tightness in the muscles of the back. Tingling deep in the spine.

Violent, shooting, burning pains. Pain along the spine, worse by stooping. Pains of all sorts in the spine. Pains go up the back and down the back. Sensitiveness of the spine to touch, especially in the back of the peck and dorsal region between the scapulae.

Sensitive to a hot sponge in the lumbar region in spinal irritation. Sensation as if cold air were spreading along the back like an aura epileptica.

Sensation of ice touching the body. Cold spots. Chilliness over the back, crawling, creeping and formication. Numbness of skin over the back.

The most of the pains are in the back of the neck and the lumbo-sacral region. Pains in this region in connection with coition. Pain in the lumbar region and sacral region, especially during exertion, sitting, etc. Pain in the sacrum as if beaten, as if it would break. Pains below the waist in women.

Limbs

In the limbs in general there are twitchings; they are numb, choreic; burning here and there; cold feelings in spots, paralyzed. Trembling of limbs, hands, awkwardness of all the movements. Rheumatism and gout of joints. Paralysis of the lower limbs. Trembling and weakness of the lower limbs.

Burning itching of the hands as if frozen. In the smaller joints, where the circulation is feeble, there are frostbite symptoms. Toes and fingers stiff.

Bones feel as if they would break during rest, especially in the lower limbs. Feeling as if the tibia would break. Aching in the tibia. Growing pains in children and they must sit at the fire or the extremities will get cold. Pains in the bones. Weight in the legs. Pains in the lower limbs; aching; stitching; tearing; better from warmth and from motion.

Paralytic weakness in the lower limbs soon after becoming pregnant. This comes with every pregnancy and she must go to bed. The symptoms may lead to Agaricus. Weight in the legs. Legs feel heavy. Trembling and jerking motion in the lower limbs.

The Therapeutics of Fevers

H. C. Allen · The Therapeutics of Fevers · 1902 Library of Congress printing (Allen d. 1909; public domain)

Characteristic

Persons with light hair; skin and muscles lax.

Old people, with weak, indolent circulation.

Drunkards, especially for their headaches; bad effects after a debauch (Lob., Nux, Ran.).

Delirium: with constant raving; tries to get out of bed

(Bell., Hyos.); in typhoid or typhus.

Headaches: of those who readily become delirious in fever or with pain (Bell.); of persons subject to chorea, twitchings or grimaces; from spinal affections.

Chilblains that itch and burn intolerably; frostbite and all consequences of exposure to cold, especially in face.

Involuntary movements while awake, cease during sleep; chorea, from simple motions and jerks of single muscles to dancing of whole body; trembling of whole body (twitching of muscles of face, Myg.).

Sensation: as if ice touched or ice-cold needles were piercing the skin; as from hot needles.

Burning, itching, redness of various parts; ears, nose, face, hands and feet; parts red, swollen, hot.

Uncertainty in walking, stumbles over everything in the way; heels pain as if beaten when standing.

Spine sensitive to touch (Chin. s., Ther.); worse mornings.

Pain: sore, aching, in lumbar and sacral regions; during exertion in the day time; while sitting (Zinc.).

Spinal irritation due to sexual excesses.

Nervous prostration after sexual debauches.

Epilepsy from suppressed eruptions (Psor., Sulph.).

Every motion, every turn of body, causes pain in spine. Single vertebræ sensitive to touch.

Prolapsus, post-climacteric; bearing-down pain almost intolerable (compare Lilium, Murex, Sepia).

Extremely sensitive to cold air (Cal., Kali c., Psor.).

Complaints appear diagonally; upper left and lower right side (Ant. t., Stram.), upper right, lower left (Ambr., Brom., Med., Phos., Sul. ac.).

Relations

Similar: to Act., Cal., Can. Ind., Hyos., Kali p., Lach., Nux, Op., Stram., in delirium of alcoholism; Myg., Tar., Zinc., in chorea.

Aggravation

After eating; after coitus; cold air; mental application; before a thunderstorm (Phos., Psor.**).

Time

**From 10–11 A. M.; from 12–1 P. M.

Chill

Shiverings, from above downwards (Ver.**); general, over the body; in the open air; on the slightest movement; from raising the bed clothes; shaking chill with gaping.

Chill in back as if cold water was running down, if he leans back in the chair.

Chilly feeling: with yawning; limbs cold and blue; weakness; ill-humor; no appetite.

Heat

**Almost wanting; chiefly on upper parts of body; in face and upper part of body.

Burning heat, has to uncover lower limbs; blood seems to run glowing through the vessels; turning in bed or lifting the covers produces chilliness.

Sweat

**Profuse; oily, but not offensive (Cinch.); all night; during sleep; from slight exertion or bodily effort; on front of body, especially about the legs. The face, neck and chest were wet with cold perspiration. The sweat, though profuse, is not debilitating. Viscid, and great prostration.