Ammonium Muriaticum am-m.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

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Region

MUCOUS MEMBRANES: CHEST. Gall-ducts. Liver. Blood. Female organs. Tips of fingers and toes. Between scapulæ.

Worse

Morning (head, chest). Afternoon (abdomen). Evening (skin, fever, limbs). Sprains (chronic). Periodically.

Better

Open air. Rapid motion.

General

Fat and puffy with thin limbs (Ant-c.). Irregular circulation; ebullitions, burnings or localized throbbings. Symptoms accompanied by cough or PROFUSE SECRETIONS. GLAIRY CATARRHS. Hæmorrhage. Tightness, as if too short; tendons, hamstrings, lumbar region, etc. Tired and sore. Festering pain.

Particulars

Brain paralysis. A rough body obstructs upper nares. Acrid, watery coryza; closing one nostril. Anosmia. Slimy mouth and pharynx. Pulsation in tonsils. Tense, sprained feeling in groins; must walk bent. Scanty, hard, crumbling stools; changing color. Polyuria. Menses flow more at night. Albuminous leucorrhœa. Blood from anus or diarrhœa during menses. Prolapsus uteri. Cough, with salivation (Am-c.) or liver symptoms. Can't breathe for coughing. Noisy, rattling, tenacious mucus in chest. Bronchitis. Hoarseness, with burning in larynx. Pulsating, burning spots in chest. Swelled cervical glands. Sore sprain or cold between scapulæ. Lumbago. Bleeding eruptions. Desquamation between fingers. Contracting sciatica (l); < sitting > lying. Pain in or ulcer on heel. Chilly as often as he wakes. Senses of heat; > open air; alternating with chill.

Related

Related: Caus.

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

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Keynote

Especially adapted to those who are fat and sluggish; or body large and fat, but legs too thin. Watery, acrid coryza, corroding the lip (All. c.). During menses: diarrhoea and vomiting; bloody discharge from the bowels (Phos.); neuralgic pains in the feet; flow more profuse at night (Bov. - on lying down, Kreos.). Obstinate constipation accompanied by much flatus. Hard, crumbling stools require great effort in expulsion; crumble from the verge of anus. (Mag. m.); vary in color, no two stools alike (Puls.). Haemorrhoids: sore and smarting; with burning and stinging in the rectum for hours after stool (Aesc., Sulph.); especially after suppressed leucorrhoea. Leucorrhoea; like white of egg, preceded by griping pain about the navel; brown, slimy, painless, after every urination. Sensation of coldness in the back, between scapulae (Lach.). Hamstrings feel painfully short when walking; tension in joints as from shortening of the muscles (Caust., Cimex). Offensive sweat of the feet (Alum., Graph., Psor., Sanic., Sil.).

Relations

Followed: by Ant. c., Phos., Puls., Sanic.

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General

Crumbling stool; menstrual discharge worse at night, particularly if it be dark and clotted. Fat, bloated and lax individuals, who are indolent and sluggish. Body large and fat, legs too thin.

Mental

Full of grief, but can't weep. Ill-humor.

Head

Headache (forehead), with flushed face and enlarged veins, often with vertigo. The hair falls with great itching of the scalp, often with dandruff.

Eyes

Flying spots before the eyes, often dim and watery; yellow; cloudy vision.

Ears

Affection of the right ear, commencing in the throat, as if throat and the ear were connected.

Nose

Frequent sneezing, with crawling in the throat. Coryza; with obstruction of the nose and loss of smell; watery acrid coryza, corroding the nostrils and their edges as well as the upper lip. Sensation as if the nose were obstructed with a large body and itching, constant but unavailing effort is made to blow it out.

Face

Very pale face, or burning heat, passing off in the open air. The face burns with an eruption which requires cold applications for relief.

Mouth

Lips, and corners of the mouth ulcerated; shrivelled, cracked and dry, must moisten them frequently. Tip of the tongue blistered, and burns like fire; swollen and pasty. Thirst absent, or excessive. Taste bitter.

Throat

Sore throat and full of glairy mucus, with difficulty in swallowing, or expectorating; swelling of; and of tonsils, internally and externally with painful deglutition and drawing, stitching pains in sub-maxillary glands. Sensation of severe throbbing in the glands of the neck and in the tonsils, with suffocation. Sore spot behind the uvula, relieved by eating.

Stomach

Easily overloaded, when it feels sore, with flatulence; feels empty without appetite; uncomfortable sensation in, of drawing, or as if it would turn around; of digging, or writhing. Nausea, with frequent vomiting. Regurgitation of food.

Abdomen

Full, often with severe pains; excessively fat, lax, and hanging. Sensation in the left groin or abdomen as if sprained. Stitches in the spleen. Pain around the navel before stool.

Stool

During and after the expulsion of stool, severe burning and smarting in the rectum. Pustules form beside the anus, with itching and soreness. Hard, crumbling stools, as they arrive at the verge of the anus, expelled with much difficulty; stools green, slimy, glassy; tough mucus mixed up with the stool. Diarrhœa after every meal with pain in back, belly, and limbs. A good deal of flatus is discharged, before, during, or after the stool; much coagulated blood, or the appearance of meat scrapings in the stool. Stool often varies in color at every evacuation, no two being alike. Burning and stinging in the rectum, with hæmorrhoidal tumors. Constipation alternating with diarrhœa; hard stool followed by a loose stool.

Urine

Smells strongly of ammonia; sometimes musty odor. Clayish sediment in; rises often at night and voids large quantity.

Sexual

Female: Uterus enlarged, displaced, soreness in the groins, profuse menses; crumbling stools. Too early menses, with pain in the abdomen and small of the back, flow more profuse at night, especially if dark and clotted. Diarrhœa and vomiting during the menses; discharge of blood from the bowels at stool during menses. In delicate, small-built women, at the critical age, violent metrorrhagia. Leucorrhœa, often with pain about the navel; like white of egg, brown or slimy.

Chest

Hoarseness with burning in region of the larynx. Hawking and clearing from tickling in trachea, with raising of small clots of mucus; every branch of the bronchial tubes involved. Moving the arms with force, or even stooping, excites asthma. Dry, rapid, suffocating cough is of daily occurrence, often beginning at 6 P.M.; sometimes it is deep and violent, and attended with free expectoration, dry cough all night, preventing sleep; excited by lying on back; after eating; after cold drinks; sensation of coldness between the scapulæ; burning in small spots in the chest; lungs feel sore and as if paralyzed. Asthma from moving the arms with force. Stitches in chest; sensation in, as if a morsel of food had lodged; as if compressed in a vice.

Neck and Back

A fatty swelling on nape of neck, extending from ear to ear. Stiff neck; pain on turning head extends to between the shoulders. Icy coldness, between the scapulæ, which nothing warms. Frightful backache as if shattered. Painful stiffness in small of back when sitting or when rising to an erect position. Sensation as if the back were compressed in a vice when sitting. Pain in coccyx as from a bruise when sitting or lying.

Extremities

Upper: In the evening, shooting and tearing in the tips of the fingers and toes; tingling in tips of fingers. Tearing in bone of left upper arm, and afterwards in right thigh from above downwards. The right arm is very heavy and feels stiff. Skin peels off between fingers and on wrists. Swelling of axillary glands. Lower: Left hip is painful, as if tendons were too short, must limp in walking; when sitting, gnawing pain in the bone. When walking, the hamstrings of both legs seem too short, causing pain. Muscles and tendons seem too short. Tearing down the thighs when sitting, relieved by rising, comes again when sitting, afterwards no relief on motion. Drawing pain in the legs when sitting or lying; walking bent forward relieves the pain. Very severe ulcerative pain in the heel, relieved by rubbing. The feet get very cold in the evening in bed. On account of a pain in the groins, as if sprained, cannot walk erect.

Sleep

Often awakens after midnight, or at 2 A.M. with violent colic. Anxious dreams.

Fever

Chilliness after lying down in the evening and as often as she awakens, without thirst. Night sweat over the whole body, most copious after midnight and early in the morning.

Worse

In the morning, after rising from bed.

Remedies following

Mercur., Phosphor., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Ant. crud., Coffea, Nux vom.

Antidotes

Coffea, Nux vom.

Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica

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Red line symptom

Influenza; acrid, watery coryza, corroding the lips sore throat, hoarseness with rawness and burning in the larynx; dry tickling cough. Constipation, stool hard and crumbling, requiring great effort to expel. During menses a bloody discharge from the bowels. Cannot walk erect on account of a pain as from a sprain in the groins.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Sal Ammoniac

General

A state of prostration bordering on a typhoid state is produced by this remedy. All mucous secretions are increased and retained. It is especially adapted to fat and sluggish patients who have respiratory troubles. Coughs associated with catarrhs and affections of liver. A tendency to irregular circulation, blood seems to be in constant turmoil, pulsations, etc. Many groups of symptoms are accompanied by cough, profuse glairy secretions. Its periods of aggravations are peculiarly divided as to the bodily region affected; thus the head and chest symptoms are worse mornings, the abdominal in the afternoon, the pains in the limbs, the skin and febrile symptoms, in the evenings. "Boiling" sensation.

Mind

Melancholy, apprehensive; like from internal grief. Desire to cry, but cannot. Consequences of grief.

Head

Hair falls out, with itchings and dandruff. Feels full, compressed; worse mornings.

Eyes

Mist before eyes, optical illusions in incipient cataract; capsular cataract.

Nose

Free acrid, hot watery discharge corroding the lip. Sneezing. Nose sore to touch; ulcerative pain in nostrils. Loss of smell. Obstructed, stuffy feeling; constant and unavailing efforts to blow it out. Itching.

Face

Inflammatory face-ache. Mouth and lips sore and excoriated.

Throat

Throbbing in, and swelling of tonsils, can scarcely swallow. Sore spot behind uvula, relieved by eating. Internal and external swelling of throat with viscid phlegm. So touch, it cannot be hawked up. Tonsillitis. Stricture of œsophagus.

Stomach

Thirst for lemonade, regurgitation of food, bitter waterbrash. Nausea. Gnawing in stomach. Epigastric pain immediately after eating. Cancer of stomach.

Abdomen

Splenic stitches, especially in the morning, with difficult breathing. Pain around navel. Abdominal symptoms appear during pregnancy. Chronic congestion of liver. Excessive fatty deposit around abdomen. Much flatus. Strained feeling in groin.

Rectum

Itching and hæmorrhoids, soreness with pustules. Hard, crumbly stool, or covered with glairy mucus. Stinging in perineum. Green mucus stools alternate with constipation. During and after stool, burning and smarting in rectum. Hæmorrhoids after suppressed leucorrhœa.

Female

Menses too early, too free, dark, clotted; flow more at night. Pain as if sprained in left side of abdomen during pregnancy. Diarrhœa, greenish mucous stools, and navel pain during menses. Leucorrhœa, like white of an egg (Alum; Bor; Calc p); with pain about the navel; brown, slimy after every urination.

Respiratory

Hoarseness and burning in larynx. Dry, hacking, scraping cough; worse lying on back or right side. Stitches in chest. Cough loose in afternoon, with profuse expectoration and rattling of mucus. Oppression of chest. Burning at small spots in chest. Scanty secretion. Cough with profuse salivation.

Back

Icy coldness between shoulders; not relieved by warm covering, followed by itching. Bruised pain in coccyx when sitting. Backache, as if in a vise when sitting.

Extremities

Pain as from ulceration in finger tips. Shooting and tearing in tips of finger and toes. Ulcerative pain in heels. Contraction of hamstring tendons. Sciatica, worse sitting, better lying. Neuralgic pain in amputated limbs. Offensive sweaty feet. Pain in feet during menses.

Skin

Itching, generally evenings. Blisters on various parts. Intense burning better cold applications.

Fever

Chilliness evenings after lying down and on awakening, without thirst. Heat in palms and soles. Sub acute, low fevers due to unhealthy climate. Lowest potencies.

Modalities

Better, open air. Worse, head and chest symptoms in the morning; abdominal symptoms in the afternoon.

Relationship

Antidotes: Coffea; Nux; Caust.

Compare: Calcarea; Senega; Caustic.

Dose

Third to sixth potency.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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Leaders

One symptom of this remedy that has proved to be a valuable keynote for its administration is: "Sensation of coldness in the back, between the shoulders." It is generally found in chest affections, such as cough or pains in the chest without cough. I have found it as reliable a keynote as is the burning between the shoulders of Lycopodium or Phosphorus. It is also a remedy for constipation, the stool being hard, dry and crumbling and also very difficult to expel. Sometimes the stool is covered with mucus, something like Causticum, which has stool covered with mucus, shining, as if greased. There is also a resemblance between these two remedies affecting the muscles and ligaments. Ammonium mur. has pain with a sensation as if the muscles were contracted or too short, while Causticum goes a step further and has actual contraction of these parts, producing what is known as arthritis deformans. (Cimex, Nat. m.).

There are two remedies that have menses, or flow of blood from the uterus, at night. They are Ammonium mur. and Bovista, the other symptoms, of course, deciding the choice between them (Kreosot. menses flow only on lying down, cease when sitting or walking about; Lilium tig. flows only when moving about, ceased to flow when she ceased to walk; Magnesia carb. flows only at night or when lying, ceases when walking). This remedy is also sometimes useful in sciatica. Here we have the sense of contraction in the tendons and the patient is worse while sitting, some better when walking and entirely relieved when lying down. It also has pains in the heels as if ulcerated. For pains in the heels see also Phytolacca, Cyclamen, Manganum, Ledum and Causticum. I once cured a case, very severe and long lasting, with Valeriana.

Text Book of Materia Medica

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Mind and Disposition

Irritability and bad humor, especially in the morning, with disinclination to speak.

Head

Giddiness, with fulness in the head. Head feels too heavy and full ; more in the forehead, especially in the morning, after rising.

Eyes

Burning in the eyes, at twilight : this disappears after lighting a candle. Dimness of sight, as if obscured by a fog. Flying spots and points before the eyes. Yellow spots before the eyes, while sewing.

Ears

Stitches in the ears. Discharges of matter from the ears, with hardness of hearing.

Nose

Coryza, with stoppage, great soreness and tenderness of the nose, and loss of smell.

Face

The face is burning-hot in the room. Dry, cracked lips, with blotches of the skin peeling of.

Mouth and Throat

Stitches in the throat, when swallowing. Burning blister on the tip of the tongue. Swelling of the sub-maxillary glands, with pulsating pains.

Stomach

Much thirst, especially in the evening. Hiccough, with stitches in the chest.

Stool and Anus

Constipation ; stools hard, crumbling. Diarrhœa, slimy, green. Before the stool, pain around the navel. During stool, stitches in the anus.

Urine

Diminished secretion of urine. Slow flow of urine ; more abundant during stool. Frequent urination, especially towards morning. Sediment, like clay.

Sexual Organs

Women. Menstruation too early and too profuse, with pain in the abdomen and small of the back ; continuing daring the night, when the menstrual discharge is more profuse. During menstruation, vomiting and diarrhœa. Fluor albus, like the white of an egg, preceded by pain around the navel.

Respiratory Organs

Frequent hawking, with expectoration of mucus. Hoarseness, with burning in the larynx. Dry cough in the morning, from tickling in the throat. Cough at night, when lying on the back. Cough aggravated by eating, drinking any thing cold, and when lying down. Pressure, heaviness and stitches in the chest, sensation, as if a swallowed morsel had lodged in the chest. When breathing, stitches in the shoulder-blades.

Back

Painful stiffness of the neck. Intolerable pain in the small of the back, at night. Coldness in the back, especially between the shoulders.

Upper Extremities

Swelling and hardness of the axillary glands. The right arm is heavy and stiff. Blisters on the wrist, forming scabs. The skin peels of between the lingers. Stitches and pulsations in the tips of the fingers, or tingling in them.

Lower Extremities

Pain in the left hip, as if the tendons were too short, causing limping or pain as from dislocation. The muscles under the knee (hamstrings) feel too short when walking, with stiffness of the knee-joint. Sensation of soreness and tearing in the heels. The tips of the toes are very painful. Coldness of the feet, especially in the evening, in bed. Offensive perspiration of the feet. Ebullitions, with anxiety and weakness, as if paralyzed. Tension in the joints, as from shortening of the muscles. Burning, stinging, throbbing, as from a boil. Sensation of soreness in different parts of the body.

Sleep

Sleeplessness after midnight, from cutting pain in the abdomen, at 2 A.M. ; or from sneezing ; pain in the small of the back.

Fever

Pulse much accelerated, day and night. Heat, with red, bloated face ; worse in the warm room. Frequent attacks of flushes of heat, followed by perspiration, which is more abundant on the face, palms of the hands and soles of the feet. Perspiration moist profuse after midnight and in the morning, in bed.

Skin

Blisters, forming scabs.

Conditions

Many groups of symptoms are accompanied by cough. In the hours of the morning, sensation of stiffness, which is relieved by walking in the open air. Aggravation, of the heal and chest symptoms in the morning ; of the abdominal symptoms in the afternoon ; of the skin and fever symptoms in the evening. Amelioration, in the open air.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

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General

Sal ammoniac. Ammonium chloride. NH 4 Cl.

Clinical

Anosmia . Bronchitis. Constipation. Coryza. Cough. Diarrhœa. Eyes, inflammation of . Feet, pains in. Glands, enlarged. Hæmorrhoids. Liver, affections of . Melancholia. Menstruation, disorders during. Pneumonia. Sciatica. Scurvy. Spleen, pains in. Sprains. Stumps, neuralgia in. Tonsils, swelling of. Ulcers.

Characteristics

Am. mur . is less prominently a right-side medicine than Am. c .; Guernsey regards it as rather left-sided. It acts specially also on the forehead. It causes ulceration and ulcerative pains; also dislocation-like pains and tension as if tendons were contracted. Both cause paralytic weakness; both are < in open air. Am. mur. has > from warm bath. Am. carb . has greater sensibility to cold and to damp weather than the muriate. Both have itching eruptions of all kinds; drowsiness by day with indolence; shivering in the evening. The mental state is very similar in the two. The muriate has perhaps more melancholy and disposition to tears than the other, and it has peculiar to itself "antipathy to certain persons." Am. mur . has fear of darkness, like Stram ., which is not noted under Am. carb . The muriate has fulness in head; weight in forehead. Burning in eyes in twilight or in morning with photophobia. Keratitis. Ulceration in corners of mouth. Sensation in stomach as if fasting, which nevertheless feels full; < after breakfast. Intermittent pains in both hypochondria. Stitches and burning in liver region, stitches in spleen < sitting. Tension in either groin. Shootings in scapula and ice-cold sensation between scapulæ, unrelieved by external wraps. In the fever chilliness predominates. Choudhury cured with it a case of intermittent characterised by absence of thirst in all stages. Constipation and piles with bleeding at stool. Sore, smarting hæmorrhoids. Hard stool covered with mucus; mucous secretions generally increased. Menses too early and too copious ( Am. c .), with pains in loins. Vomiting, diarrhœa, and neuralgic pains in feet during period. Coryza, acrid, watery; scalding hot; with cold feeling between shoulders. Loss of smell. Cough and asthmatic symptom < evening and at night and < in open air. Pain as from ulceration at tips of fingers. Neuralgic pains in stumps of amputated limbs ( Al. cep .). Ulcerative pains in heels (ulcers from friction Al. cep .). (Panaris.) Sciatic pain as if tendons were too short. < Sitting or walking. Tension in legs on lying. Large buttocks. Fatty tumours. Obesity. Body fat; legs thin ( Am. c ., fat all over). There is > walking crooked, < on walking erect. Most symptoms are < at night and from two to four a.m.

Relations

Compare: Mag. mur., Nat. mur.; Val. and Ac. mur. (pains in feet and heels); Rhus (sprains; < sitting); Seneg. (fat people); Sep., Sul. In "aversion to darkness" compare: Calc., Carb. an., stron., Val., and Stram. A hot bath relieves aggravation caused by Am. m. Antidotes to Am. m.: Bitter almonds; Coffea; Nux v.

Mind

Great anguish, and melancholy state as from vexation or cares, with inclination to shed tears. ─ Full of grief, but can't weep. ─ Morose, apathetic humour, with repugnance to conversation. ─ Irritability and disposition to be angry. ─ Antipathy to certain persons.

Head

Dizziness and vertigo (flushed face and enlarged veins), which mostly disappear in the open air. ─ Sensation of fulness in the head and weight over the forehead, chiefly in the morning on rising. ─ Pressure in the forehead towards the root of the nose, with a sensation as if the brain were bruised. ─ Acute semi-lateral sensation of pulling in the head and in the face. ─ Congestion of blood in the head, with internal heat. ─ Itching in the scalp, which forces to scratch constantly. ─ The hair falls out; often with dandriff.

Eyes

Burning in the eyes, and in the corners of the eyes, in the evening, in the twilight, or in the morning, with photophobia. ─ Palpitation in the eyelids. ─ Confused sight, as from a mist. ─ Fluttering spots and points before the eyes, in the day, and in the evening by candle-light. ─ Yellow spots before the eyes on looking steadfastly at any object; while sewing.

Ears

Shooting in the ears from the inside outwards, esp. in the open air. ─ Drawing and piercing sensation in the ears. ─ Eruption in the ears. ─ Running from the ears. ─ Hardness of hearing. ─ Tingling and buzzing before the ears. ─ Affection of the r. ear commencing in the throat, as if the throat and the ear were connected.

Nose

Swelling of the nose, and painful sensibility to the touch, with pain of ulceration and bloody crusts in the nostrils. ─ Sneezing, with shooting in the nape of the neck, and as far as the shoulders, and crawling in the throat. ─ Coryza, with stoppage of the nose (and tenderness of the nose) and loss of smell. ─ Flow of clear corrosive water during the coryza, corroding the lips.

Face

Acute sensation of tearing, violent in the zygomatic bones. ─ Burning heat in the face in the room. ─ Eruptions in the face. ─ Ulcerations in the corners of the mouth, and in the upper lip. ─ Lips shining, as from grease. ─ Lips dry, wrinkled, chapped, and excoriated with burning heat, with blotches of the skin, peeling off; the face burns with an eruption which requires cold applications for relief. ─ Tensive pain in the articulation of the lower jaw on chewing, and on opening the mouth. ─ Swelling of the sub-maxillary glands, with throbbing pain.

Teeth

Acute sensation of tearing in the teeth. ─ Swelling of the gums, with shooting pain.

Mouth

Burning blisters on the point of the tongue. ─ Shooting pain in the throat on swallowing. ─ Tenacious mucus in the throat, chiefly in the morning. ─ Swelling of tonsils so he can scarcely swallow after taking, cold.

Appetite

Bitter taste in the mouth, chiefly in the morning, with bitter eructations and anxiety. ─ Absence of hunger and of appetite. ─ Much thirst, chiefly in the evening. ─ After every meal, nausea, flow of water from the mouth, with shuddering, diarrhœa with colic and pains in the limbs, and sometimes with throbbing in the chest, heat in the face, and restlessness.

Stomach

Eructations, mostly bitter or imperfect. ─ Regurgitation of what has been taken, or of a bitter and acid water. ─ Frequent violent hiccough, often with shootings in the chest. ─ Water-brash. ─ Drawing or gnawing pains in the stomach, as if from worms. ─ Sensation of burning in the stomach and in the precordial region.

Abdomen

Shooting pains in the region of the spleen, chiefly in the morning on waking, with dyspnœa, which causes the assumption of an erect position. ─ Inflation of the abdomen. ─ Pinching in the abdomen. ─ Tension and swelling in the groins. ─ Sensation of swelling and pain, as of ulceration in the groins, on their being touched.

Stool and Anus

Constipation. ─ Hard stools, or frequent and soft. ─ Hard, crumbly stool, or covered with glairy mucus. ─ Diarrhœa with pain, as if caused by excoriation, or by a bruise in the belly. ─ Loose, slimy, greenish stools. ─ Before the stool, pain in the belly round the navel. ─ Discharge of blood with the stool. ─ During stool, stitches in anus. ─ Pustules form beside the anus, with itching and soreness. ─ Stool often varies in colour at every evacuation, no two being alike. ─ Pain, as from excoriation in the rectum when sitting; during and after the expulsion of stool, severe burning and smarting. ─ Pain in the perinæum when walking. ─ Hæmorrhoids: burning, stinging, smarting, soreness.

Urinary Organs

Evacuation of urine increased, principally in the night. ─ Reddish, clear urine, without sediment. ─ Diminished secretion, of urine. ─ Slow flow of urine; more abundant during stool. ─ Frequent urination, esp. towards morning. ─ Sediment, like clay. ─ Urine smells strongly of ammonia; sometimes musty odour.

Male Sexual Organs

Shootings and throbbings in the spermatic cord. ─ Frequent erections.

Female Sexual Organs

Menses too early and too copious, with pain in the abdomen, loins, and pains, compressive or drawing, in the back; continuing during the night, when the menstrual discharge is more profuse. ─ During the menses, vomiting and diarrhœa, drawing in the feet, or discharge of blood on going to stool. ─ Leucorrhœa, with inflation of the belly; or like the white of an egg, preceded by pinchings round the navel; or slimy and brown, discharged after making water.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness, with sensation of burning in the larynx. ─ Violent cough, chiefly in the evening and at night, when lying on the back. ─ Frequent hawking, with expectoration of mucus. ─ Dry cough in the morning (with tickling of the throat), with expectoration of whitish and thick matter. ─ The cough is aggravated after a meal, as well as after a cold drink, and when lying with the head low. ─ Cough on breathing deeply, esp. when lying on the r. side. ─ When coughing, shootings in the chest and in the hypochondria. ─ Spitting of blood, preceded by tickling in the throat. ─ When breathing, stitches in the shoulder-blades.

Chest

Asthmatic state on moving the arms up and down. ─ Weight and oppression of the chest, with difficulty of breathing, chiefly in the open air, or at night. ─ Pressure and shootings in the chest. ─ Pressure, heaviness, and stitches in the chest, sensation as if a swallowed morsel had lodged in the chest. ─ Throbbing in the chest when standing. ─ Burning in small spots in the chest, lungs feel sore and as if paralysed. ─ Tension and pain, as from fatigue, in the exterior of the chest. ─ Eruption and red spots, burning and itching on the chest.

Neck and Back

Acute drawings in the sides of the neck and in the collar-bone. ─ A fatty swelling on nape of neck, extending from ear to ear. ─ Stiffness of the neck, with pain on moving it, from the nape of the neck to the shoulders. ─ Coldness in the back, esp. between the shoulders (which nothing warms). ─ Pain in small of back as if beaten and shattered. ─ Pain in coccyx, when sitting, < when sleeping. ─ Pains, as from fatigue in the loins, principally at night, when lying down, when walking, or after stooping. ─ Painful stiffness in the loins, which forces one to stoop in walking. ─ Shootings in the shoulder-blades, esp. on breathing.

Upper Limbs

Heavy and stiff, as if paralysed. ─ Tearing in bone of l. upper arm, and afterwards in r. thigh from above downwards. ─ During the night, acute tearing in the arms, as if it were in the bones. ─ Swelling and hardness of the axillary glands. ─ The r. arm is heavy and stiff. ─ Tearing in the shoulders. ─ Swelling of the wrists with tearing pain. ─ Blisters on the wrists, which form crusts. ─ Pain, as from dislocation, in the wrist. ─ Sudden jerks, tearings, or shootings, throbbing, tingling and pain as from ulceration at the tips of the fingers. ─ Exfoliation of the skin between the fingers (and on wrists).

Lower Limbs

Tension in the hips and the hams. ─ Shootings, pain of dislocation (l. hip is painful, as if the tendons were too short, causing limping), and pulling in the hip. ─ When sitting, gnawing pain in the bone. ─ Contraction of the tendons of the hams (the muscles under the knee feel too short when walking), and stiffness in the joint of the knee. ─ At night, acute pulling in the legs, as if in the bone. ─ Shooting pain in the calves of the legs, after having walked long. ─ Legs dead and insensible. ─ Pain of ulceration and pulling in the heels. ─ Cold feet, esp. in evening, in bed. ─ Fetid sweat in the feet. ─ Sudden jerks, pullings, or shootings, throbbing and tingling in the extremity of the toes. ─ Ebullitions, with anxiety and weakness, as if paralysed. ─ Tension in the joints, as from shortening of the muscles. ─ Burning, stinging, throbbing, as from a boil. ─ Sensation of soreness in different parts of the body. ─ Very severe ulcerative pain in the heel, > by rubbing. ─ The feet get very cold in the evening in bed.

Generalities

Pains, as from ulceration in different parts of the body. ─ Tension in the joints, as by contraction of the tendons. ─ The r. side of the body appears to be more affected than the l. ─ Pains in the head and chest, which increase principally towards morning; gastric and abdominal pains after dinner, and pains in the limbs; cutaneous affections; also febrile symptoms, which present themselves in the evening and at night. ─ Ebullition of the blood with anxiety. ─ Paralytic weakness and fatigue, chiefly of the lower extremities, sometimes with giddiness, or with tension and dragging of the legs. ─ Scorbutic cachexia. ─ Tendency of the blood to decomposition. ─ Acute dragging pains in the bones, nightly.

Skin

Itching and titillation, giving an impulse to scratch, followed by eruption of pimples. ─ Miliary eruption. ─ Vesicular eruptions which form scurf. ─ Exfoliation of the skin in several places.

Sleep

Diurnal drowsiness, with indolence and dread of exertion. ─ Early in the evening, inclination to sleep. ─ Restlessness before midnight. ─ Sleeplessness after midnight, from cutting pain in the abdomen, at two a.m.; or from sneezing; pain in small of back. ─ Waking too early. ─ Many dreams, anxious, terrific, or lascivious. ─ At night, colicky pains, frequent sneezing, crawling in the throat, weight and pressure on the chest (nightmare?), violent suffering in the veins, and pains in the trunk and in the limbs, cold feet, heat in the head, shivering, and itching in the skin.

Fever

Cold shivering, most frequently in the evening, about six o'clock; without thirst. ─ All stages of fever without thirst. ─ Shivering after lying down in bed, evening, and as often as she wakes. ─ Cold feeling between shoulders. ─ Heat with thirst, and face bloated. ─ Nocturnal sweat, after midnight. ─ Sweat increased by every motion.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

Mind

Neither unconsciousness nor delirium ; no apoplexy.
Desire to cry, and at times crying.
Disinclination to speak.
Involuntary aversion to certain persons.
Melancholy and anxious, as if laboring under some grief or sorrow.
Apprehensive and gloomy, like from internal grief.
Great earnestness.
Indifferent mood.
Fretfulness ; irritability, mostly mornings.
Mood irritable, malicious.
Consequences of grief.

Sensorium

Fulness of head with giddiness ; feels as if it was very heavy.
Heaviness of forehead, in morning after rising and during day.
Vertigo and fulness of head ; at times as if she would fall sideways.

Inner head

Dull heavy pains with vertigo and pallor. θ Prevailing fever.
Congestive headache with flushed face and enlarged veins. θ Prevailing fever.
Heaviness in forehead, frequently during day (internal sensation of heat and some sweat).
Pressure in forehead, towards root of nose, with sensation as if brain was torn ; < after rising.
Tearing mostly in right temple, through right side of face.
Stitches in left temple and side of head, and when stooping, in vertex, with sensation as if head would split.
Contractive pain in occiput as though screwed in, extending to side of head.
Rheumatic, tearing pains in head, temple and occiput.
Rheumatic pains in head so severe as to cause nausea, burning of ears and deafness.
Neuralgic headaches.

Outer head

Falling out of hair, with great itching of scalp.
Itching of scalp ; also with dandruff.
Itching pimples on right side of occiput.

Sight and eyes

Mist before eyes, < in bright light, outdoors ; > better in room.
Sensation in left eye as if a body arose which impeded sight.
Yellow spots before eyes.
Optical illusions in dark colors.
Capsular cataract.
Flying spots and points before eyes.
Burning of eyes at twilight ; ceases after lighting lamp.
Eyes gum together in morning, with burning in canthi after washing.
Eyes dim, glassy, watery.
(OBS :) Yellow eyes.

Hearing and ears

Humming and roaring in right ear.
Hard hearing, with discharge.
Itching in both ears, not relieved by scratching, with discharge of fluid earwax.
Stitches in ears, also with boring or burning, mostly when walking in open air.
Digging and tearing in right ear, also at night ; when lying thereon, a rooting and rolling, as if something would come out.
Right ear affected for years ; it commences in throat and he cannot talk right ; it is as if ear and throat were connected.

Smell and nose

Loss of smell, with coryza and stoppage of the nose.
Nose sore internally and at edges of nostrils. θ Scarlatina.
Ulcerative pain in left nostril, with sensitiveness to touch.
External swelling of left nostril, with discharge of bloody crusts.
Bleeding from left nostril, preceded by itching.
Constant itching in nose, with irritation to blow it, and sensation as of a large rough body up in the nose, with obstruction.
Coryza, with stoppage of nose, hoarseness and burning in larynx.
Watery, acrid coryza, corroding the lip.
Frequent sneezing ; roused her from sleep, with crawling in throat making her cough.
Coryza in children, with bluish discharge.
Coryza with stoppage, great soreness and tenderness of nose, and loss of smell.
The nose either more dry than natural, or a watery discharge and obstruction. θ Prevailing fever.

Upper face

Very pale face.
Burning heat of face, passes off in open air.
Tearing in bones of face, especially in malar and lower maxilla.
Swelling of cheek, with swelling of a gland under angle of lower jaw, with beating, stitching pain.
Eruption on face which burns ; he cannot sleep without cold applications.

Lower face

Mouth and lips sore and excoriated. θ Prevailing fever.
Lips burn like fire.
Corners of mouth ulcerated.
(OBS :) Dry, shrivelled, cracked lips, must moisten them with tongue continually.
Pimples, blisters, on upper lip.
Tensive pain in articulations of jaw when chewing or opening mouth.
Submaxillary glands swollen ; pulsating pains.

Teeth and gums

Pain in a decayed root, ceases when pressed upon with finger.
Stitching pain in upper incisors.
Swelling of gums of lower left side, with stitches up to left temple.

Taste, speech, tongue

Tongue swollen and pasty. θ Prevailing fever.
Blister on tip of tongue, with burning pain.
Tongue furred white.

Palate and throat

Throat full and sore with increase of glairy mucus, and difficult swallowing. θ Prevailing fever.
Dryness in throat.
Stitches in throat during and between deglutition, also when yawning.
External and internal swelling of throat, with pressing pain when swallowing, and with drawing, stitching pain in swollen submaxillary glands.
Sore throat, with viscid phlegm ; so tough that it cannot be hawked up.
Tonsils throb, but are not swollen, with uneasiness and oppressive anxiety.
Throbbing in glands of neck, which, however, are not swollen ; with flushes of heat and want of air in throat.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Loss of appetite.
Loss of appetite and thirstlessness. θ Prevailing fever.
Much thirst, mostly evenings.
Sometimes extreme thirst. θ Prevailing fever.
Want of appetite alternating with canine hunger.

Eating and drinking

After eating, beating in breast near œsophagus, with heat of face and restless mood ; < on an empty stomach, but also nearly always after eating ; must often eat a little, but not enough to satisfy hunger.
Sore spot behind soft palate, which is relieved or passes away for a short time by eating.
Eating and drinking cold things aggravate cough.
After dinner : sudden prostration when walking in open air.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Hiccough, with stitches in chest.
Eructations : empty ; bitter ; tasting of food.
Nausea : with waterbrash, after eating, with shudderings.
Regurgitation : of food ; of bitter, sour water.
Frequent vomiting. θ Prevailing fever.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Stomach too apt to be overloaded, feels lame and sore, sometimes flatulent. θ Prevailing fever.
Empty or hungry feeling in stomach.
Sensation as from fasting, yet fulness in stomach ; < after breakfast.
Rooting and rolling in stomach, in morning ; passes off after breakfast.
Gnawing in stomach, as if worms were in it.
Burning and itching in scrobiculum, from thence drawing to right axilla, and into upper arm.
Empty sensation in stomach, but she cannot make up her mind to eat anything.

Hypochondria

Intermittent pains in both hypochondria.
Stitching and burning in right hypochondrium, afternoons, when walking.
Splenic stitches, while sitting ; also in morning on awaking, with difficulty of breathing, obliging him to rise.
(OBS :) Liver complaint. Gallstones.

Abdomen and loins

Abdomen full and distended, sometimes severe pains. θ Prevailing fever.
Bellyache, griping pains about navel.
Heaviness in lower abdomen, as from a load, with anxiety as if abdomen would burst ; ceases after sleep.
Distension of abdomen, without accumulation of wind.
Stitches in abdomen, above left hip.
Pain from right side of pubes, to hip and small of back.
Cutting and stitches from both ossa pubium to small of back, with urging to urinate, evenings.
Stitches in right groin, coming out behind hip, when sitting.
Groins feel sore and as if swollen. θ Uterine displacement.
Tearing and tensive pain in groin when walking.
Pain as if sprained in left abdomen.
Pain as from a sprain in left groin. θ During pregnancy.
Pain in abdomen and back with menses. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Excessive amount of fat in abdomen : lax and hanging.

Stools and rectum

The various affections of bowels are accompanied by flatus. θ Prevailing fever.
Soreness up along rectum, when sitting.
Itching soreness of rectum, several pustules being formed at side of it ; often with diarrhœa.
Much burning and smarting in rectum during and for hours after stool.
Stitching or tearing pain in perineum, when walking. θ Pregnancy.
Green, slimy, diarrheic stools , in morning.
Color of stools varies ; white and undigested, or green and watery, or green slimy, or yellow and bloody watery and slimy. θ Prevailing fever.
Diarrhœa after eating, with pain in abdomen, back, small of back and limbs.
Hard, crumbling stools, requiring great effort in their expulsion.
Obstinate and extreme constipation.
Prevailing fever.
Watery stools copious, other kinds scanty, though often repeated. θ Prevailing fever.
Stool hard, crumbling, scanty.
Stools like scrapings of meat or copious, consisting of coagulated blood. θ Prevailing fever.
Discharge of blood during stool.
Hard stool covered with mucus.
Glassy, tough mucus in stool.
Hemorrhoidal trouble with burning and stinging in rectum.
Hemorrhoids sore and smarting. θ After suppressed leucorrhœa.
(OBS :) Constipation changing with diarrhœa.

Urinary organs

Constant tenesmus vesical ; < 4 A. M.
Frequent urging, with frequent urination.
Urging, yet only a few drops pass, until next stool, when it flows freely.
Profuse and frequent discharge during night.
Sediment like clay.
Copious urine smells strongly ammoniacal ; sometimes mouldy or musty.

Male sexual organs

Stitches and beating in left spermatic cord.
Frequent erections.
Hypertrophy of prostate.
(OBS :) Blennorrhœa of urethra.
(OBS :) Strictures and contracted urethra.
(OBS :) Old gonorrhœa.

Female sexual organs

Neuralgic pains in ovaries.
Hypertrophy of uterus.
Uterus displaced, with soreness in groins as if swollen ; crumbling stools ; profuse menses.
Menses too early, with pain in abdomen and small of back, continuing at night ; flow more profuse at night. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Menses black, clotted.
During menses : diarrhœa and vomiting ; bloody discharge from bowels ; neuralgic pains in feet.
Violent metrorrhagia ; delicate, small-built woman, æt 47.
Leucorrhœa preceded by pain around navel.
Constant leucorrhœa.
Leucorrhœa : with tension of abdomen, without collection of wind ; like white of egg, preceded by griping about navel ; brown, slimy, after every urination.
Painless leucorrhœa.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

During pregnancy ; crumbling stool ; feeling as if sprained in left groin ; hemorrhoids.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Voice husky. θ Prevailing fever.
Hoarseness, with burning in larynx, afternoon ; could scarcely speak.
Frequent hawking, with expectoration of small lumps of mucus, with sensation of rawness in throat, back of uvula.
Every branch of bronchial tubes affected to end. θ Prevailing fever.
Constant hawking, groaning and crowing from a tickling in throat, with raising much mucus.

Respiration

Worse when taking a deep breath.
Shortness of breath.
Heaviness of chest, when walking in open air.
Asthma when moving arms with force and when stooping.

Cough

Many groups of symptoms are accompanied by cough.
Daily recurring, dry, rapid, suffocating cough, with inability to utter a single word during the paroxysms, attacks beginning at 6 P. M. ; no sputa, but much water in mouth.
Could deep and violent, attended by tolerably free expectoration. θ Prevailing fever.
Cough : dry, from tickling in throat ; night or day ; dry in morning, with stitches in chest or left hypochondrium ; becomes loose in afternoon ; loose at night, with stitches in left hypochondrium, lying on
back ; < when turning on side ; < before eating or drinking cold things.
Expectoration of blood, following an itching in throat.

Inner chest and lungs

Bronchitis.
Heaviness on chest nights in bed, which awakes him, with restlessness ; awoke again at 3 A. M.
Heaviness so great when walking she cannot breathe, must stand still.
Pressure, heaviness and stitches in chest, as if a morsel of food had lodged there.
Painful tension below right breast.
Bruised pain in lower right chest.
Lungs sore and paralytic. θ Prevailing fever.
Burning at small spots in chest.
Beating, like a pulse, at a small spot in left chest, only when standing, mornings.
In pulmonary affections, coldness between the scapulæ.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Soreness in left chest.
Tearing in region of heart, going thence into left forearm.
Pulse accelerated.

Outer chest

Burning, itching, red spots on left chest, which pale under pressure.

Neck and back

Stiff neck, with pain from nape to between shoulders, when turning.
Tearing pains in sides of neck, alternating with tearing in cheek.
(OBS :) A fatty swelling on neck, extending from ear to ear.
Small, painful, nonsuppurating tubercles on right scapula.
Bruised and sprained pain between scapulæ.
Stitches in left scapula.
Pinching in muscles of right scapula.
Coldness in back and between shoulders, not relieved by feather or wool covering, followed by itching. θ Pulmonary affections.
Backache, especially at night.
Pain in small of back, as if bruised or crushed, during rest or motion, also at night, in bed ; could neither lie on back nor side.
Stiffness in small of back.
Severe pain in lumbo-sacral region. θ Prevailing fever.

Upper limbs

Swelling of axillary glands.
Rheumatic pain, first in right, then in left shoulder joint.
Tearing in left arm, as if in tendons, to fingers ; ceases from strong motion.
Small, painful, nonsuppurating tubercles on right scapula.
Stitches in right scapula when inspiring.
Blisters on right scapula, tensive and burning ; scurf forms.
Right arm heavy and feels rigid.
Drawing and tearing, from right elbow to fingers.
Itching on inside of forearm, with eruption in bend of elbow.
(OBS :) Fatty swelling on left shoulder, extending into axilla.
Right forearm heavy and as if "asleep."
Tearing in left wrist, with swelling of back of hand.
Small blisters on wrist itching, then burning when scratched.
Pulsation in a finger like that from panaritium.
Stitches and painful beating under nail of left thumb.
Skin peels off between thumb and forefinger of both hands.

Lower limbs

Languor and weakness of lower limbs, with dizziness.
Pain in left hip, as if tendons were too short, must limp when walking ; when sitting, gnawing pain in bone.
Tearing pain in front part of thighs, when sitting.
Drawing tension in legs when sitting or lying.
Restored mobility in knee, which had been swollen and stiff (child).
Stitches in knee joint, evening, when sitting.
Hamstrings painful when walking, as if too short.
Cramplike contraction in lower part of left leg.
(OBS :) Large buttocks.
Violent tearing and stitches, with ulcerative pain in heels ; at times relieves by rubbing ; occurs also at night, in bed.
Feet feel as if "asleep."
Cold feet, especially in evening in bed.
Itching in sole of right foot : evenings.
Stitching in toes, coming slowly and going slowly.
Offensive sweat of feet.

Limbs in general

Tearing and painful jerks, now here, and again there, through all limbs.
Tearing rheumatic pains in extremities.

Rest. position. motion

Has to walk crooked. θ Uterine displacement.
Cannot walk erect, on account of a pain as from a sprain in groins.
During rest : backache.
Lying : drawing tension in legs ; chilly in evening.
Lying on ear : sensation as if something would come out.
Lying on back : loose cough at night with stitches in left hypochondrium.
Cannot lie on back or side : with backache.
Walking : stitches in ears in open air ; stitching and burning in right hypochondrium ; tearing and tension in groin ; stitching and tearing in perineum ; heaviness of chest in open air ; heaviness on chest very great ; must limp from pain in left
hip ; hamstrings seem too short ; sudden prostration.
Motion : backache ; increases sweat ; pains in limbs better.
From exertion : heat and puffiness of face.
After rising : pressure in forehead.
Must rise : with stitches in spleen.
Stooping : stitches in head and splitting sensation ; asthma.
Turning : pain from stiff neck to between shoulders.
Turning from back to side : cough with stitches in left hypochondrium worse.
Sitting : stitches in spleen ; stitches in right groin ; soreness up rectum ; gnawing in left hip bone ; tearing in front of thighs ; drawing tension in legs ; stitches in knee.
Moving arms : asthma.
Must stand still : from heaviness on chest.
Standing : beating like pulse in left chest.

Nerves

Ebullitions with anxiety and weakness as if paralyzed.
Sudden prostration after dinner, when walking in open air.
Great weakness, mornings.
Prostration and great weariness.

Sleep

Languor during day, with laziness.
Constant yawning without sleepiness, mornings.
Sleepiness early in evening, eyelids fall shut ; > after candlelight.
Cannot fall asleep before midnight, on account of cold feet.
Heat in head prevents sleep before midnight.
Restless sleep, and waking after midnight.
Anxious, fearful dreams, starts out of sleep.
Dreams : of falling into water ; of sickness ; lascivious.
Wakes at 2 A. M. from violent cutting in abdomen.
Wakes at night : from sneezing, with tickling in throat, causing cough ; pain in small of back.
Generally < after getting out of bed.

Time

Worse after rising in morning.
Night : digging and tearing in right ear ; frequent and profuse urination ; menstrual flow most profuse ; cough loose ; heaviness in chest ; backache ; tearing in heels, in bed ; cold feet in bed ; restless sleep, awakes frequently ;
chill from uncovering ; sweating, most copious after midnight.
At 2 A. M. : awakened by cutting in abdomen.
At 3 A. M. : awakened with heaviness in chest.
At 4 A. M. : tenesmus vesical worse.
Early morning : sweating most copious.
Morning : irritability ; heaviness of forehead after rising ; eyes agglutinated ; stitches in spleen ; green diarrheic stools ; cough dry ; beating in left chest ; great weakness ; constant yawning and sleepiness ; bruised pain all over
after rising.
Night and day : dry cough ; sweat.
All day : heaviness of forehead ; languor and laziness.
Afternoon : burning and stitching in right hypochondrium ; hoarseness and burning in larynx ; cough loose.
Twilight : burning of eyes.
At 6 P. M. : attacks of cough begin daily.
Evening : has most thirst ; cutting and stitching in ossa pubium to back ; stitches in knee when sitting ; itching in sole of right foot ; sleepy early ; chilliness ; itching in various parts.
Midnight : cannot fall asleep till then from cold feet and heat in head.

Temperature and weather

A warm bath relieves.
Warm covering : does not relieve coldness in back.
Out-doors : mist before eyes worse.
Open air : stitches in ears when walking ; heat of face passes off ; heaviness of chest when walking ; sudden prostration when walking.
In room : mist before eyes > ; heat and puffiness of face when warm.
In bed : tearing in heels ; cold feet ; itching in various parts becomes better.
Uncovering : chilly at night.
After washing : burning in canthi.

Fever

Chilliness evenings, after lying down, and as often as she awakens ; without thirst.
Chill, with external coldness in evening and from uncovering at night.
Chill running up back.
Chill alternating every half hour, with heat.
Chill and heat, ending with copious sweat ; seventh day of typhoid.
Heat with red, puffed-up face, particularly in warm room, and after bodily exertion.
Thirst with heat.
Flushes of heat in frequent attacks, ending each time with sweat, which is most profuse in face, palms of hands, and soles of feet.
Sweat day and night, following heat.
Profuse night-sweat over whole body, most copious after midnight and early in morning in bed.
Sweat without thirst.
Sweat increased by every motion.
Sweat on lower part of body.

Attacks, periodicity

Stitching pain in toes, comes slowly and goes slowly.
Septimani : chill and fever followed by profuse sweat every seventh day.
Daily : cough beginning at 6 P. M.
Chills alternating with heat every half hour.
Seventh day of typhus ; chill and heat ending with copious sweat.
Flushes of heat ending with sweat in frequent attacks.

Locality and direction

Tearing and jerking through all limbs change locality often.
Tearing and jerking through all limbs change locality often.
Right : tearing in temple and side of face ; itching pimples side of occiput ; humming and roaring in ear ; digging and tearing in ear ; ear affected for years ; burning and stitching in axilla, and in hypochondrium ; pain from side of pubes to
back ; stitches in groin ; painful tension below breast ; bruised pain in lower chest ; small tubercles, blisters, scurf on scapula ; pinching in muscles of scapula ; stitches in scapula when inspiring ; arm heavy and rigid ; tearing from elbow to
fingers.
Left : stitches in temple and side of head ; ulcerative pain in nostril ; external swelling of nostril ; bleeding from nostril ; swelling of gums side of lower jaw ; stitches in abdomen above hip ; pain as if sprained in side of abdomen and groin ;
stitches and beating in spermatic cord ; stitches in chest and hypochondrium with cough ; beating at a small spot in chest ; soreness in chest ; red spots on chest ; stitches in scapula ; tearing in arm ; tearing in wrist ; stitching and beating under
thumb-nail ; pain in hip ; contraction in lower part of leg.
Right and left : rheumatic pain in shoulder joint.
Diagonally : burning and stitching from scrobiculum to r. axilla.
Before backward : stitches in abdomen and groin.
Tearing from heart to left forearm.

Sensations

As if brain was torn ; as if head was split ; as if occiput was screwed in ; as if a body arose in left eye which impeded sight ; as if ear and throat were connected ; as from a load in lower abdomen ; as if abdomen would burst ; swollen
feeling in groins ; as if a morsel of food had lodged in throat ; blood seems to be in constant ebullition ; a running sensation between skin and muscles.
Dull heavy pains : in head, with vertigo and pallor.
Pain : from right side of pubes to hip and small of back ; in lumbo-sacral region ; in left hip as if tendons were too short ; in abdomen and back, with menses.
Stitches : in left temple and side of head ; in vertex when stooping ; in ears ; in submaxillary gland ; in upper incisors ; to left temple, from swollen gums ; in throat ; in chest with hiccough or cough ; in scrobiculum ; in
hypochondria ; in spleen ; in abdomen above left hip ; from pubes to small of back ; in right groin, coming out behind hip ; in perineum ; in left spermatic cord ; in left scapula ; in right scapula when inspiring ; under left thumbnail ; in
knee-joint ; and tearing in heels ; in toes.
Stinging : in rectum.
Cutting : from ossa pubium to small of back.
Tearing pain : in right temple and through right side of face ; in temples and occiput ; in head, causing nausea ; in r. ear ; in bones of face ; in groin ; in perineum ; from cardiac region into left arm ; in side of neck, alternating with
tearing in cheek ; in left arm to fingers ; and drawing from right elbow to fingers ; in left wrist ; in front part of thighs ; and stitches in heels ; through limbs.
Burning : of eyes ; in canthi ; of ears ; in larynx ; heat of face ; eruption on face ; of lips ; in blister on tip of tongue ; in scrobiculum ; in right hypochondrium ; in rectum ; at small spots in chest ; red spots on
left chest ; in blisters on right scapula ; in small blisters on wrist.
Smarting : in rectum.
Rawness : in throat, back of uvula.
Soreness : and tenderness of nose ; of nose and nostrils ; of mouth and lips ; in throat ; in a spot behind soft palate ; in stomach ; in groins ; in rectum ; itching in rectum ; in lungs ; in left chest.
Pressure : in forehead towards root of nose ; in throat when swallowing ; and stitches in chest.
Bruised pain : in lower right chest ; between scapulæ ; in small of back ; in whole body in morning after rising.
Tensive pain : in articulations of jaw ; in groin ; below right breast ; in blisters on right scapula ; and drawing in legs.
Ulcerative pain : in left nostril ; in heels.
Gnawing : in stomach ; in left hip bone.
Boring and digging : in ears.
Pinching : in muscles of right scapula.
Griping : about navel.
Contractive pain : in occiput.
Cramplike contraction : in left hip ; in hamstrings ; in lower l. leg.
Sprained feeling : in left side of abdomen ; in groin ; between scapulæ.
Lame feeling : in stomach.
Rooting and rolling : in right ear as if something would come out ; in stomach.
Neuralgic pains : in head ; in feet.
Rheumatic pains : in head ; in varices ; first in right, then in left shoulder joint ; in limbs.
Heaviness : with fulness in head ; in forehead ; in lower abdomen ; of chest ; and rigidity of right arm.
Fulness : of head ; in throat ; in stomach ; in abdomen.
Empty sensation : in stomach as from fasting ; in throat, with no desire to eat.
Pulsating : in submaxillary gland ; in tonsils ; in glands of neck ; in breast near œsophagus ; in left spermatic cord ; small spot in left chest ; in finger, like panaritium ; under nail of left thumb ; in various places.
Drawing : in submaxillary gland ; from right elbow to fingers.
"Gone to sleep" feeling : in feet.
Itching : of scalp ; pimples on right side of occiput ; in ears ; in nose with sensation of a foreign body ; of rectum ; in throat, followed by expectoration of blood ; red spots on l. chest ; between scapulæ ; on inside of forearm ; in
small blisters on wrist ; in sole of right foot ; on various parts before going to bed.
Tickling : in throat.
Crawling : in throat, causing cough.
Coldness : between scapulæ ; of feet.
Stiffness : in small of back.
Dryness : in throat.

Tissues

Orgasm of blood.
Produces an increased secretion of mucus ; hence useful in catarrhs.
Burning, rawness, on mucous surfaces ; later formation of vesicles and ulcers.
Tension in joints as from shortening of muscles.
(OBS :) Fatty tumors.
(OBS :) Obesity.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : left nostril sensitive.
Pressure : with finger relieves pain in decayed tooth ; red spots on chest become pale.
Scratching : does not relieve itching in ears ; causes itching blisters on wrist to burn.
Rubbing : relieves pain in heels.

Skin

Itching on various parts of body, generally evenings, before going to bed, > afterwards.
Fine rash over whole body, like measles.
Smallpox more on trunk and upper limbs.
Blisters on various parts, with tension, burning and formation of scurf.

Stage of life, constitution

Suitable to those who are fat and sluggish ; body fat, but legs thin.

Relations

Similar to its relatives and to : Ant. crud . (mucous membranes) ; Aloes (abdominal symptoms) ; Arsen. (catarrhs) ; Arg. nitr . (mucus in
throat) ; Calc. ostr . (fat people ; coldness between scapulæ ; profuse menses) ; Conium (night cough) ; Caustic . (stiff joints, contractions of muscles ;
burning hoarseness) ; Carb. veg . (hoarseness ; burning on chest, etc.) ; Coloc . (in colic) ; Hepar ; Iodine ; Kali bichr . (stringy mucus, etc.) ; Kali
chlor . (catarrh) ; Kali hydr . (pimples on back, etc.) ; Mercur. ; Merc. corr. ; Magn. mur . (especially bloody sputum ; crumbling stool ; atonic bladder) ; Natr.
mur . (catarrh) ; Nux. vom. ; Phosphor. ; Rhus tox . (sprains ; joints < sitting, etc.) ; Seneg . (fat people ; mucous secretions ; stitches in scapula with lung affections,
etc.) ; Sepia (blisters about joints ; atonic bladder, etc.) ; Silic. ; Sulphur .
Aggravations from Amm. mur . are relieved by a hot bath.
Antidoted by : bitter almonds ; Coffea ; Nux vom .

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 patient frequently feels a boiling throughout the body as if in the blood vessel.

Sensitive to cold. Many complaints increase while in the open air. Flushes of heat, ending in sweat.

Tearing pains and smarting prevail extensively. Burning and excoriation of mucous membranes.

Drawing or sensation of shortening of tendons. It is a long-acting remedy.

Mind

There are few reliable mental symptoms known. Anxiety, fretfulness and antipathy to certain persons. Neuralgic and, rheumatic pains in the head. Tearing pains in the head.

Head

Stitching and tearing in the temples. Itching of the scalp and other parts. Rash all over body like measles.

Eyes

It cures capsular cataract, when the symptoms agree. Yellow spots before the eyes. Burning of the lids and balls in twilight or dim light. Mist before the eyes in a bright light.

Ears

Burning of the ears when walking in cold air. Difficult hearing. Catarrh of right ear, throat and larynx.

Nose and coryza

Much sneezing, watery burning discharge, yet stoppage of nose. Coryza with burning in larynx. It has been used extensively in traditional medicine for coryza. Some sore throat and inflammation of the larynx.

For these troubles in olden times the large chunk of sal ammoniac was produced, a few crystals shaved off with a common jack knife into a glass of water. All got the same thing, regardless of symptoms.

Some were cured promptly of these bad colds, with or without fever. It is now an overlooked remedy. Its symptoms should be carefully studied.

Face

With many of its complaints there is much pallor of the face. Tearing in the bones of the face. Swelling of the submaxillary and parotid glands with stitching pains.

Mouth

Burning and excoriation of mouth and lips, like Am. c. Tongue swollen. It is a very useful remedy for nondescript sore throat; but especially useful where there is marked burning and much viscid mucus, pulsating in the neck and glands of neck, great swelling, pale face, stitching in the throat, great pain on swallowing, with or without thirst.

Stomach

Eructations of food as eaten, and vomiting. Sensation of hunger with fullness, which is a flatulent state. Empty feeling, gnawing in the stomach and spleen. Burning, stitching, tearing pains in the abdomen.

Abdomen

Distension from flatus. Much grumbling in the bowels. Much pain in inguinal region. Pain in abdomen and back during menses. The abdomen is fat, relaxed and heavy, and the lower limbs are lean.

Rectum and anus

Excoriation and burning of the rectum and anus during and long after stool. Stitching, tearing pains in the perineum. Hard, crumbling stool, most difficult to expel; must use the abdominal muscles.

All the salts of ammonia, like this one, have painful hemorrhoids. It cures diarrhea when the stools are like scrapings, bloody and watery; also green slimy stools in the morning. Diarrhea and vomiting during menses, like Am. c. It has cured enlarged prostate, also enlarged uterus.

Female

Menses too soon each month, with pain in back and abdomen. The flow is black and clotted, much like Am. c. During menses there is often haemorrhage from the bowels or rectum with cholera-like symptoms.

Copious uterine haemorrhage. Copious white painless leucorrhoea. With all the abdominal and menstrual symptoms there is copious flatus, with rumbling and colic.

These symptoms especially in pale, sickly, feeble women.

Chest and lungs

In catarrhal troubles that extend into the larynx and bronchial tubes, with stitching, tearing, burning.

Hoarseness and loss of voice, with burning in the larynx. Constantly scraping white mucus from the larynx. Difficult breathing when using the arms or from manual labor. Weight on the chest in open or cold air. Dry cough from constant tickling in the larynx. Daily recurring suffocating cough. In weakly people going toward phthisis, with daily dry cough and fast pulse.

Back and limbs

Violent backache at waist line, worse at night. Coldness between the shoulders.

Stitching, drawing, tearing in limbs. Drawing in the limbs. Tension in the muscles and tendons of the lower limbs.

Tension in posterior part of thighs when walking. Cold feet at night in bed. Copious night sweats latter part of night. Flushes of heat and fever.

If the reader will take up the provings and study them carefully he should be able to use this remedy in the direction pointed out, and most likely would see uses not mentioned.

The Therapeutics of Fevers

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

Characteristic

Suitable to those who are fat and sluggish; or body large and fat but legs thin (see Lyc.).

Watery, acrid coryza, excoriating the lip (Cepa); mouth and lips sore and excoriated (Nat. m.).

Stools: like scrapings of meat or copious, consisting of coagulated blood; green, slimy, yellow, watery or undigested.

The various affections of the bowels have much flatus (Aloe, Carbo v., Lyc., Pod.).

Obstinate constipation accompanied by much flatus.

Hard, crumbling stools require great effort in expulsion; crumble from the verge of anus (Mag. m.); vary in color, no two stools alike (Puls.).

Hemorrhoids: sore and smarting; with burning and stinging in the rectum for hours after stool (Æsc., Sul.); especially after suppressed leucorrhœa.

During menses : diarrhœa and vomiting ; bloody discharge from the bowels (Phos.); neuralgic pains in the feet ; flow more profuse at night (Bov.—on lying down, Kreos.).

Leucorrhœa ; like white of egg, preceded by griping pain about the navel ; brown, slimy, painless, after every urination.

Sensation of coldness in the back, between scapulæ (Lachn.).

Hamstrings feel painfully short when walking ; tension in joints as from shortening of the muscles (Caust., Cimex).

Offensive sweat of the feet (Alum., Graph., Psor., Sil.).

Blood seems in constant ebullition. Chills alternating with heat every half hour.

Aggravation

From uncovering during fever paroxysm (Acon., Nux).

Type

No periodicity.

Time

3 till 4 A. M.—5, 6 and 7 P. M.

Septimani.—Chill and fever followed by profuse sweat every seventh day (Cinch., Sul.).

Prodrome

Thirst; sleeplessness.

Chill

Without thirst. Chilliness evenings after lying down, and as often as she awakes, lasting entire night. Violent shivering, without subsequent heat (without subsequent heat or sweat, Bov.). Chill running up the back; warm covering does not relieve the coldness. Chill with external coldness day, evenings and nights; worse from uncovering, dares not uncover on account of chilliness (Nux). Chill alternating every half hour, with heat and bloated red face (yellowish, mahogany-red, Eup. perf.). Severe pain in lumbo-sacral region.

Heat

With thirst; over the whole body, with redness of face and a kind of stinging heat in skin, especially over whole chest (Apis, Nit. ac.—itching over whole body, Led., Petr.).

Flushes of heat frequently coming on, always ending in sweat, which is most profuse in face, palms of hands and soles of feet.

Sweat

Without thirst; day and night; following heat. Increased transpiration; every movement makes him sweat (Bry., Sul., Ver.—when sitting quietly, Staph.). Sweat on the lower part of the body. Night-sweat, most copious after midnight and towards morning, in bed. Fever paroxysms begin with chilliness, then heat, and end with sweat.

Analysis

Chill < by uncovering (Nux); alternating every half hour with heat and bloated red face. The intestinal flatus, meat scrapings and stools of coagulated blood indicate it in enteric or continued fever.