Baryta Carbonica bar-c.

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

NUTRITION. MIND. GLANDS: THROAT. Prostate. HEART. Nerves. Blood-vessels. Lungs.

Worse

Company. Thinking of it. Cold: Damp; to feet. To head. Changes. Lying on: Painful part. Left side. Odors.

Better

Warm wraps.

General

Torpid, dwarfish (Med. Syph.) or marasmic. Weakly. Senility; early (Calc-c.). Adenopathies. Scrophula. Chronicity. Single effects (Agar. Con.). Burning, localised. Numb parts; mouth, genitals, fingers, etc. Forced through a narrow place, as if. Vascular softening and dilatation. Paralytic effects. Apoplexy. Too tired to even eat. Wants to lie down. Takes colds. Inflamed mucous membranes.

Particulars

SLOW, INEPT AND BACKWARD. Childish, thoughtless behavior. Timid. Cowardly. Groans from every little thing. Increasing mental weakness. Weak, beclouded mind. Bad memory. Forgets her errand or the word in her mouth. Irresolute. Mistrustful. Shy of strangers. Brain feels loose; > cool air. Heavy pressure over eyes (Bell.). Baldness; < vertex. Hazy cornea. Eyes, > looking down. Old, sickly, weakened look. Crusty ears. Nose dry, < blowing it. Pendulous lips. Weak tongue. Burning soreness or vesicles on tip of tongue. Throat (glands) affected by every cold; < menses. Chronic quinsy. Enlarged tonsils (Calc-p.). Spasm of œsophagus. Sore spot in stomach. Diarrhœa, with lumbar ache. Flabby genitals. Erections when riding. Paralytic aphonia. Asthma, < wet, warm air; senile (Bar-m.). Chronic bronchitis. Heart; bruised sore; < suppressed footsweat. Trembling feet. Hot, bruised soles at night. Cold, foul footsweat. Indurated glands; tonsils; cervicals, swelled like knotted cords. Cysts. Lipoma. Warts. Acne. Pulse slow and small. High blood-pressure. Arterio-sclerosis.

Related

Related: Kali-p. Med. Sil.

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

H. C. Allen · Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Medi-T HTML text; edition not stated by the mirror (first edition 1898, Allen d. 1909)

Keynote

Especially adapted to complaints of first and second childhood; the psoric or tubercular. Memory deficient; forgetful, inattentive; child cannot be taught for it cannot remember; threatened idiocy. Scrofulous, dwarfish children who do not grow (children who grow too rapidly, Cal.); scrofulous ophthalmia, cornea opaque; abdomen swollen; frequent attacks of colic; face bloated; general emaciation. Children both physically and mentally weak. Dwarfish, hysterical women and old maids with scanty menses; deficient heat, always cold and chilly. Old, cachetic people; scrofulous, especially when fat; or those who suffer from gouty complaints (Fluor. ac.). Diseases of old men; hypertrophy or induration of prostrate and testes; mental and physical weakness. Apoplectic tendency in old people; complaints of old drunkards; headache of aged people, who are childish. Persons subject to quinsy, take cold easily, or with every, even the least, cold have an attack of tonsillitis prone to suppuration (Hep., Psor.). Inability to swallow anything but liquids (Bap., Sil.). Haemorrhoids protrude every time he urinates (Mur. ac.). Chronic cough in psoric children; enlarged tonsils or elongated uvula; < after slight cold (Alum.). Swelling and indurations, or incipient suppuration of glands, especially cervical and inguinal. Offensive foot sweat; toes and soles get sore; of the heels; throat affections after checked foot sweat (compare, Graph., Psor., Sanic., Sil.). Great sensitiveness to cold (Cal., Kali c., Psor.).

Relations

Frequently useful before or after Psor., Sulph., and Tub. After Bar. c., Psor will often eradicate the constitutional tendency to quinsy. Similar: to, Alum, Cal. iod., Dul., Fluor. ac., Iod., Sil. Icompatible: after Calc. in scrofulous affections.

Aggravation

When thinking of his disease (Oxal. ac.); lying on painful side; after meals; washing affected parts.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

Henry N. Guernsey · Key-Notes to the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Guernsey d. 1885; public domain)

General

One is reminded of this drug by seeing a dwarfish and delicate person, a person that is mentally and physically so, i.e., a man dwarfish in size, and the mind seems dwarfish, cannot grasp ordinary ideas; also for backward children. Right hypochondriac region. Micturition too frequent. Tension in outer parts. Cystic tumors. particularly occurring on the wrist. Pricking after scratching; itching after scratching; pricking in the skin. Sleep unquiet. Perspiration on one side, as on one hand, one foot, one side of the face or body, etc.; stinking, particularly on the feet.

Mental

Great aversion to strangers; the sight of them makes the symptoms worse, or causes a recurrence of. Suddenly overwhelmed with evil apprehensions. Great solicitude and anxious care. Feebleminded children.

Head

Losing hair from the crown of the head. Itching and gnawing of scalp; external head, particularly behind the ears; lobe of the ear, or lobes of the ears; upper lip; nape of neck.

Eyes

Pressing pain deep in, relieved by looking downward. Sensation as of gauze before eyes.

Ears

Tearing in bone in front of right ear.

Nose

Troublesome dryness and stoppage of.

Mouth

Swelling of submaxillary glands, with induration. Frequent and considerable bleeding of gums. Toothache before menses.

Throat

Sore throat occurs from the least cold that is taken; throat often suppurates; swollen glands after scarlet fever. Sensation as of smoke in.

Gastric

When eating, as the food descends into stomach, much pain is felt, as if it had to force itself into the stomach through sore places.

Chest

Obstructed with mucus; sensation as if something hard had fallen down in.

Worse

Lying on painful side; from pressure without.

The following medicines often follow

Calc. carb., Conium, Pulsat., Phosphor., Rhus tox., Sepia, Silic., Sulphur.

Antidote

Camphor.

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

Great mental and bodily weakness, deficient memory, child cannot remember or be taught. Especially suitable for old people, dwarfs, scrofulous children, with glandular swellings. especially those who have inflammation and swelling of tonsils from last cold.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Carbonate of Baryta (BARYTA CARB)

General

Specially indicated in infancy and old age. This remedy brings aid to scrofulous children, especially if they are backward mentally and physically, are dwarfish, do not grow and develop, have scrofulous ophthalmia, swollen abdomen, take cold easily, and then always have swollen tonsils. Persons subject to quinsy which is prone to suppurate; gums bleed easily. Diseases of old men when degenerative changes begin;-cardiac vascular and cerebral;-who have hypertrophied prostate or indurated testes, very sensitive to cold, offensive foot-sweats, very weak and weary, must sit or lie down or lean on something. Very averse to meeting strangers. Catarrh of posterior nares, with frequent epistaxis. Often useful in the dyspepsias of the young who have masturbated and who suffer from seminal emissions, together with cardiac irritability and palpitation. Affects glandular structures, and useful in general degenerative changes, especially in coats of arteries, aneurism, and senility. Baryta is a cardio-vascular poison acting on the muscular coats of heart and vessels. Arterial fibrosis. Blood-vessels soften and degenerate, become distended, and aneurisms, ruptures, and apoplexies result.

Mind

Loss of memory, mental weakness. Irresolute. Lost confidence in himself. Senile dementia. Confusion. Bashful. Aversion to strangers. Childish; grief over trifles.

Head

Vertigo; stitches, when standing in the sun, extending through head. Brain feels as if loose. Hair falls out. Confusion. Wens.

Eyes

Alternate dilatation and contraction of pupils. Photophobia. Gauze before eyes. Cataracts (Calc; Phos; Sil).

Ears

Hardness of hearing. Crackling noise. Glands around ears painful and swollen. Reverberation on blowing nose.

Nose

Dry; sneezing; coryza, with swelling of upper lip and nose. Sensation of smoke in nose. Discharge of thick, yellow mucus. Frequent bleeding. Scabs around wings of nose.

Face

Pale, puffed; sensation as of cobweb (Alumina). Upper lip swollen.

Mouth

Awakes with dry mouth. Gums bleed and retract. Teeth ache before menses. Mouth filled with inflamed vesicles, foul taste. Paralysis of tongue. Smarting, burning pain in tip of tongue. Dribbling of saliva at dawn. Spasm of œsophagus when food enters.

Throat

Submaxillary glands and tonsils swollen. Takes cold easily, with stitches and smarting pain. Quinsy. Suppurating tonsils from every cold. Tonsils inflamed, with swollen veins. Smarting pain when swallowing; worse empty swallowing. Feeling of a plug in pharynx. Can only swallow liquids. Spasm of œsophagus as soon as food enters œsophagus, causes gagging and choking (Merc cor; Graphit). Throat troubles from over use of voice. Stinging pain in tonsils, pharynx or larynx.

Stomach

Waterbrash, hiccough, and eructation, which relieves pressure as of a stone. Hungry, but refuses food. Pain and weight immediately after a meal, with epigastric tenderness (Kali carb). Worse after warm food. Gastric weakness in the aged with possible malignancy present.

Abdomen

Hard and tense, distended. Colicky. Enlarged mesenteric glands. Pain in abdomen swallowing food. Habitual colic, with hunger, but food is refused.

Rectum

Constipation, with hard, knotty stools. Hæmorrhoids protrude on urinating. Crawling in rectum. Oozing at anus.

Urinary

Every time patient urinates, his piles come down. Urging to urinate. Burning in urethra on urinating.

Male

Diminished desire and premature impotence. Enlarged prostate. Testicles indurated.

Female

Before menses, pain in stomach and small of back. Menses scanty.

Respiratory

Dry, suffocative cough, especially in old people, full of mucus but lacking strength to expectorate, worse every change of weather (Senega). Larynx feels as if smoke were inhaled. Chronic aphonia. Stitches in chest; worse inspiration. Lungs feel full smoke.

Heart

Palpitation and distress in region of heart. Aneurism (Lycop). Accelerates the heart's action at first, blood pressure much increased, contraction of blood vessels. Palpitation when lying on left side, when thinking of it especially; pulse full and hard. Cardiac symptoms after suppressed foot-sweat.

Back

Swollen glands in nape of occiput. Fatty tumors about neck. Bruised pain between scapulæ. Stiffness in sacrum. Weakness of spine.

Extremities

Pain in axillary glands. Cold, clammy feet (Calc). Fetid foot-sweats. Numbness of limbs. Numb feeling from knees to scrotum; disappears when sitting down. Toes and soles sore; soles painful when walking. Pain in joints; burning pains in lower limbs.

Sleep

Talking in sleep; awakens frequently; feels too hot. Twitching during sleep.

Modalities

Worse, while thinking of symptoms; from washing; lying on painful side. Better, walking in open air.

Relationship

Compare: Digitalis; Radium; Aragallus; Oxytrop; Astrag. Complementary: Dulc; Silica; Psorin. Incompatible: Calc. Antidote for poisonous doses: Epsom salts.

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency, the latter to remove the predisposition to quinsy. Baryta is slow in action, bears repetition.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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Leaders

Mental and physical weakness; both ends of life; don't grow. Almost imbecile (children) feeble and tottering; childish and thoughtless (old age); loss of memory.

Tonsils inflame, swell and suppurate repeatedly, on every cold exposure; chronic hypertrophy afterwards.

Glands swell, infiltrate, hypertrophy; neck, parotids, submaxillary, groin, lymphatics, in the abdomen; hypertrophy, sometimes suppuration.

Offensive foot-sweats; toes and soles get sore; throat affections after checked foot-sweat.

Great sensitiveness to cold.

This is one of the leading so-called anti-scrofulous remedies. Please refer to what I said on this subject (scrofula) while writing on Sulphur. This is also one of the remedies which has one of its leading indications, like Calcarea ost., in the constitution of the patient. Complaints of dwarfish children; mind and body weak; don't grow; inclined to glandular swellings. The defective growth is both mental and physical. The weakness of the mind may amount almost to idiocy or imbecility. Then again it is equally adapted to old age, with mental and physical weakness; feeble and tottering; childishness and thoughtless behavior. It is especially adapted to apoplexy of old people, or a tendency thereto. For loss of memory in such subjects it stands equal to Anacardium. Now we see that if all this is true, Baryta carb. becomes a valuable remedy at both ends of life. Marasmus, infantile or senile, comes equally within its range. In the marasmus of children we may have to choose from among other remedies such as Silicea, Abrotanum, Natrum muriaticum, Sulphur, Calcarea and Iodine. Under all these remedies we may find emaciation of the rest of the body, while the abdomen is greatly enlarged. Again under every one of them, the child may have a voracious appetite; eat enough, but grow poor all of the time. It is defective assimilation. There are some strong points of resemblance between Baryta carb. and Silicea, namely: Offensive sweat on the feet. The head is disproportionately large for the body. Both suffer from damp changes in the weather and both are sensitive to cold about the head. But Silicea has the important diagnostic difference -profuse sweat on the head equal to that of Calcarea ost., which Baryta has not. And there is not that weakness of mind in Silicea that is found in Bryonia; on the contrary the child is self-willed and contrary.

The resemblances to the other remedies, other than those we have mentioned, are so many that we will not undertake to compare them here, but will proceed to notice some of the other strong points of Baryta.

Besides the strong action of Baryta upon the glandular system generally, it seems to have a peculiarly strong affinity for the throat, especially the tonsils, which become greatly inflamed, swollen and suppurate as a consequence of the least exposure to cold. Thus it becomes one of our most valuable therapeutic agents in old quinsy subjects. Alone it is often sufficient to abort an attack of quinsy and with an occasional dose at long intervals with a high potency, to overcome the tendency thereto. (Psorinum). But like Lachesis, Lycopodium, Phytolacca and other remedies, it must be chosen according to all the indications. Baryta is really fully as useful to change the constitutional tendencies to quinsy, as it is in the acute attack. You will find occasionally a case of chronic cough in children with enlarged tonsils, reported in the journals as cured by this remedy. The cure of the cough depends evidently upon the power of the remedy over the condition which produced the enlarged tonsils, for aside from this I have never found it to be a great cough remedy. In tonsilitis acute or chronic which seems to have come as the result of a suppressed foot-sweat, we would immediately think of Baryta notwithstanding Silicea has more troubles arising from such suppression than any other remedy, but Silicea has not nearly the same affinity for the throat that Baryta has.

Here we will close Baryta, for while it is a remedy of the greatest value, its range is not a wide one. Some of the remedies of this kind make up for the lack of range by a positiveness within their range, and this is one of them.

Text Book of Materia Medica

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Mind and Disposition

Mistrust ; want of self-confidence, and aversion to strangers (the child does not want to play). Deficient memory (children cannot remember and learn).

Head

Pricking headache near the warm stove. Baldness. The scalp is very sensitive to the touch, especially on the side on which he lies, with the sensation of suggillation, worse from scratching. Dry or humid scurf on the head.

Eyes

The light hurts the eyes, and in the dark he sees sparks before them. Burning and pressing in the eyes, if he looks attentively at any thing. Inflammation of the eyes, with sensation of dryness.

Ears

Cracking in the ears when swallowing, sneezing, and when walking fast.

Face

Dark redness of the face, with congestions to the face. Tension on the face, as if it were covered by spider webs. Swelling of the submaxillary glands, with induration.

Mouth and Throat

Tongue cracked, feels very sore. Inflammation of the throat, with swollen, inflamed tonsils. Sensation, as from a plug in the throat.

Stomach

Weakness of the digestion after eating, pressing in the stomach ; and pain in the hard, swollen abdomen. Sensation of soreness of the stomach ; while eating, it feels as if the food had to force itself through some raw places.

Stool and Anus

Sudden, irresistible urging to stool, with painful soreness in the lumbar region, followed by frequent diarrhœtic stools. Anus sore and humid. Crawling in the rectum, (ascarides).

Sexual Organs

Erections (only) in the morning before rising. Soreness and moistening between the scrotum and thighs.

Chest and Respiratory Organs

Suffocative catarrh, and paralysis of the lungs in old people. Sensation of soreness in the chest. Sensation, as if something hard dropped down in the chest. Sensation of smoke in the larynx. Hoarseness and loss of voice from tough mucus in the larynx and trachea. Palpitation and soreness of the heart, renewed by lying on the left side, and when thinking of it. Spasmodic cough (like hooping-cough from roughness and tickling in the throat and pit of the stomach. Cough worse in the evening till midnight ; after getting the feet cold ; from exercise ; when lying on the left side ; in the cold air ; from thinking of it.

Back and Neck

Stiffness of the nape of the neck. Sarcoma in the neck, with burning. Beating and pulsation in the back. Stiffness in the small of the back, in the evening, especially while sitting, which allows neither to rise nor to bend backwards.

Extremities

Upper. Painfulness of the arms, with swelling of the axillary glands. Lower. Fetid perspiration of the feet. Corns, with burning and stinging.

Generalities

Paralysis and palsy of aged persons. Great weakness of mind and body of old men. Emaciation, with bloated face, swelled abdomen, and difficult learning in children. Tearing in the limbs, with chilliness. Heaviness of the body. Tension and shortening of the muscles.

Sleep

Sleepiness day and night.

Fever

Pulse accelerated, but weak. Chilliness relieved by external heat. Flushes of heat, more at night, with great restlessness. Perspiration, one-sided, (left side), every other evening.

Skin

Burning prickings here and there. Soreness and humid skin. Swelling and induration of the glands. Warts.

Conditions

Especially suitable for old people, or scrofulous children, especially those who suffer from inflammation of the throat and swelling of the tonsils after the least cold. Great liability to take cold, (sore throat), stiffness of the neck, or diarrhœa. The left side is most affected. Aggravation while sitting, or when lying on the painful side, or when thinking of his disease. Amelioration when walking in the open air.

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

Carbonate of Barium Ba C0 3 , with which are included symptoms of Baryta acetica ─ Barium acetate Ba(C 2 H 3 O 2 ) 2 . (I follow Hering and Hahnemann in combining the two, as I agree with Hering that "there is hardly any difference between the two, and certainly none in the symptoms cured.") Solution of acetate; trituration of carbonate.

Clinical

Aneurism . Apoplexy. Atrophy. Baldness. Brain, affections of . Cysts. Foot-sweat. Glandular swellings . Hæmorrhoids. Heart, affections of. Memory defective . Œsophagus, spasm of. Panaris. Paralysis . Parotitis. Prostate, enlarged. Quinsy. Throat, sore. Tonsils, enlarged. Tumours . Warts. Wens .

Characteristics

Baryta corresponds to scrofulous conditions in children and old age; dwarfish children and childish old people. Old people who are fat. Those liable to take cold easily; sore throat from cold; glandular affections. Many cases of aneurism have been cured with Baryta , mostly in lower attenuations. It corresponds to the atheromatous condition. A paralytic condition runs throughout the pathogenesis. There is paralysis of mind and body. Mistrust; want of self-confidence; aversion to strangers (the child does not want to play). It has cured a case of fetid foot-sweat with spells of despondency, seeking solitude, sobbing and crying. Deficient memory (children cannot remember and learn). Sensation as if brain loose. Vertigo: with nausea; from stooping; when lifting arms up; in old people. Pressure and sticking in brain, at vertex on waking. It has cured baldness in young people; tinea, wens. The scalp is very sensitive to touch. Enlarged glands in occiput and neck. On the face there are rough, dry and herpetic eruptions. Dark redness. Tension of whole face as if white of egg had dried on it; as if a cobweb ( B. acet .) over face, temples, and scalp. Painful swelling of parotid and of submaxillary glands. The sense of smell is very acute. There is an illusion of smell as of pine smoke. Nose-bleed before menses. The tongue is paralysed. Salivation; saliva runs out during sleep. The digestion is weak; after eating, pressing in stomach; and pain in hard, swollen abdomen. Sensation of soreness of stomach; while eating it feels as if the food had to force its way through some raw place. It has proved curative in the habitual colic of children who do not thrive; enlarged mesenteric glands; hungry, but refuse food, swallowing painful. The anus is sore and humid. Piles protrude with urination as well as stool. Constipation, with hard, knotty stools; hæmorrhoids, burning and soreness. The paralytic condition appears in the sexual organs. Impotence. Soreness and moistening between scrotum and thighs. Enlarged prostate. There is also a paralytic condition of the respiratory organs. There is a feeling in the larynx as if inspiring smoke or pitch. Hoarseness and loss of voice from cough, mucus in larynx and trachea. Suffocating catarrh and paralysis of lungs in old people. Sensation as if lungs full of smoke. There is a spasmodic cough, like whooping-cough, from roughness and tickling in throat and pit of stomach. Cough < evening till midnight; after getting feet cold; exercise; lying left side; cold air; thinking of it. Palpitation with soreness of heart, < lying on left side; < thinking of it. Violent long lasting palpitation; felt in head. Palpitation < on exertion. Slightest exertion makes him feel tired and sleepy. These heart symptoms of Bar. c . are met with in many cases of aneurism and atheroma, and no remedy has a better record here. I cured an advanced case of thoracic aneurism with the 3x. Baryt. c . has cured tumours of several kinds. Induration in the breasts. Sarcoma in neck with burning. Fatty tumours, especially about the neck. Swelling and induration of glands. A marked symptom is, pulsation in the back. Stiffness and tension in small of back, in evening, especially while sitting, allowing neither to rise nor to bend backwards. Painfulness of arms and swelling of axillary glands. Cold feet. Fetid perspiration of feet. Corns with burning and stinging. Burning and drawing pains are frequent in lower limbs. A case has been recorded in which Baryt . removed in an old man a pain, coming suddenly, in hollow of knee and running down back of leg like a thin stream of hot fluid or molten metal, running down under the skin. Tearing in limbs with chilliness. Tension and shortening of muscles. Intolerable irritation all over like prickings and tingling, waking him at night. Itching, sore and humid skins. ─ Warts. ─ Burning pains are found in many parts. General soreness and sensitiveness. Small wounds ulcerate and get very sore.

Chilliness predominates. It has cold, clammy feet as notably as Calcarea . < Cold air; cold washing; damp weather; warm food; in sun (headache); near warm stove (headache). < From raising arms, < from mental emotion. < Thinking of complaints. < In company; > alone. > From cold food. Left side much affected. Offensive sweat of one side (mostly left). < Lying on painful side; on left side. < After eating. After eating, so weak cannot raise his hands; too weak to masticate.

Relations

Compare: Alum., Ant. t. (paralysis of lungs); Bell., Calc. c. (scrofulosis, coryza, &c.); Calc. iod. (large tonsils); Caust. (paralysis); Cham., Chi., Con. (old people); Dulc. (catching cold); Fluor. ac. (old people); Iod. (glands); Lach., Lyc. (tonsils); Mag. c., Merc. (colds, glands, diarrhœa); Nat. c., Phos., Puls., Sep. (tinea); Silic. (glands, fetid foot-sweat, but Bar. c. lacks the head-sweat of Silic., and Silic. has self-will instead of the weak-mindedness of Bar. c.); Sul., Tell. Antidoted by: Ant. t., Bell., Camph., Dulc., Merc., Zn. Compatible: after Scilla, Ars. Before and after Sul. Incompatible: Calc.

Causation

Checked foot-sweat.

Mind

Lachrymose disposition. ─ Repugnance to strangers or to society; (the sight of them < symptoms or causes a recurrence). ─ Mistrust; want of self-confidence, the child does not want to play. ─ Anxious inquietude about domestic affairs. ─ Scrupulous, irresolute, suspicious temper, with mistrust of one's self. ─ Fear and cowardice. ─ Aversion to play (in children). ─ Sudden fits of passion from trifling causes. ─ Incessant activity. ─ Great weakness of memory. ─ Inattention to studies in children. ─ Deficient memory (children cannot remember and learn).

Head

Vertigo, with nausea, and headache on stooping. ─ At night everything rocks with him as on a ship. ─ Aching pains in the head, principally in the forehead, over the eyes, and the root of the nose, or with tension in the occiput, towards the nape of the neck. ─ Pricking, lancinating pains in the head, esp. provoked by the heat of a stove. ─ Pressure in brain under vertex, towards occiput, on waking, with stiffness of neck. ─ Digging in the head, with a sensation of looseness of the brain. ─ Painful sensibility in the scalp. ─ The scalp is very sensitive to the touch, esp. on the side on which he lies, with the sensation of sugillation, worse from scratching. ─ Numbness in skin of forehead to root of nose. ─ Tendency to take cold through the head. ─ Itching and gnawing in the scalp; and external head, particularly behind the ears; lobe of the ear, or lobes of the ears; upper lip; nape of neck. ─ Eruptions and humid or dry scabs on the head. ─ Baldness. ─ Losing hair from crown of head.

Eyes

Aching and burning pain in the eyes, esp. on fatiguing the sight. ─ Inflammation of the ball of the eye and of the eyelids, with pain as of excoriation, sensation of dryness with photophobia. ─ Swelling of the eyes in the morning. ─ Exophthalmos. ─ Scrofulous inflammation with phlyctenulæ and ulcers on cornea. ─ Stye in inner corner of l. eye. ─ Tarsal tumours. ─ Agglutination of the eyelids. ─ Confusion of sight, which prevents one's reading. ─ Specks flying about, and black spots before the eyes. ─ Sparks before the eyes in the dark. ─ Dazzling of the eyes by the light.

Ears

Itching in the ears. ─ Nocturnal pulsation in the ears when they are lain upon. ─ Eruptions on the ears or behind the ears. ─ Parotids swollen and painful. ─ Hardness of hearing. ─ Tinkling and roaring in the ears. ─ Cracking in the ears on swallowing, on sneezing, and on walking quickly. ─ Tearing in bone in front of r. ear.

Nose

Epistaxis, esp. after having blown the nose; before catamenia. ─ Crusts below the nose. ─ Very acute sense of smell. ─ Smells pine smoke. ─ Fluent coryza with abundant secretion of thick mucus. ─ Painful dryness of the nose. ─ Coryza; with upper lip swollen, < mornings.

Face

Face deep red, with purple lips, and great ebullition of the blood. ─ Sensation of swelling and tension in the face, as if it were covered with cobwebs. ─ Pains in the face with tensive swelling. ─ Eruption on the face. ─ Lips dry and cracked. ─ Swelling of upper lip; with burning pain. ─ Acute pain in the joint on closing the jaws. ─ Swelling of the submaxillary glands, with induration.

Teeth

Toothache only in the evening, in bed. ─ Pullings, throbbing, and shocks in the teeth, extending even to the ear and the temple. ─ Toothache < when thinking about it. ─ Burning shootings in the carious teeth, excited by contact with anything hot. ─ Toothache before the catamenia, with pale red swelling of the gums and of the cheek. ─ Bleeding of the gums. ─ Fistula dentalis.

Mouth

Buccal cavity feels numb. ─ Dryness of the mouth. ─ Accumulation of saliva in the mouth. ─ Offensive smell from the mouth. ─ Inflamed vesicles in the mouth and on or under the tongue. ─ Cracks in the tongue, with burning pain as of excoriation. ─ Paralysis of tongue. ─ Cold tongue, somewhat black ( Acet .). ─ Tongue coated as if fuzzy.

Throat

Sore throat, with swelling of the palate and of the amygdalæ, which suppurate. ─ Sensation, as if one had a plug in the throat. ─ Suffocation and contraction in the throat. ─ Shootings, and pain as of excoriation, in the throat, esp. during the act of deglutition. ─ Spasm of œsophagus; can only swallow liquids. ─ Sensation in œsophagus as if a morsel of food had lodged there.

Appetite

Disagreeable, or bitter taste, generally in the morning, with tongue much loaded. ─ Sour taste, esp. before, but not after a meal. ─ Continual thirst. ─ Appetite weak, and soon satisfied, although the food pleases the palate. ─ After dinner, pains in the stomach, uneasiness, indolence, and aversion to labour. ─ Weakness of digestion. ─ Cough from warm food. ─ > From cold diet.

Stomach

Sinking sensation in the afternoon. ─ Risings after a meal. ─ Frequent risings, abortive or sour. ─ Discharge of phlegm from the stomach. ─ Vomiting of mucus. ─ Nausea, chiefly in the morning, when fasting, and sometimes as if in consequence of indigestion. ─ Pains in the stomach, when fasting, after a meal, or on pressing upon the epigastrium. ─ Sensibility and pain in the epigastrium at every step taken. ─ Heaviness, fulness, and pressure in the stomach and epigastrium, ever. after having eaten little. ─ Weakness of the digestion after eating, pressing in the stomach; and pain in the hard, swollen abdomen. ─ Sensation as if stomach were hanging relaxed. ─ Pain, as of excoriation, in the region of the stomach, with a sensation when eating as if the parts through which the food passes were raw.

Abdomen

Pain in the abdomen, relieved by eructation or by external heat. ─ Painful tension and inflation of the abdomen. ─ Colic, with retraction of the navel. ─ Pinchings and cuttings in the abdomen, with inclination to evacuate, as if diarrhœa were coming on. ─ Accumulation of flatulency in the abdomen.

Stool and Anus

Evacuations difficult and knotty, or hard and insufficient. ─ Frequent inclination to evacuate, with a sensation of anxious uneasiness in the lumbar region, shiverings passing over the thighs, and evacuations soft and loose. ─ Sudden irresistible urging to stool, with painful soreness in the lumbar region, followed by frequent diarrhœic stool (Acet.). ─ Urgent desire to evacuate, which can scarcely be repressed. ─ Expulsion of ascarides. ─ Crawling in the rectum (ascarides). ─ Appearance of hæmorrhoidal excrescences, with shooting pain. ─ Itching, sensation of burning, excoriation and oozing at the anus.

Urinary Organs

Frequent inclination to make water, with abundant emission. ─ Urgent inclination to make water; it can hardly be retained. ─ During urination, burning in urethra.

Male Sexual Organs

Diminution of sexual desire, and weakness of the genital functions. ─ Relaxed penis, premature emissions. ─ Falling asleep during coition, without the emission having taken place. ─ Gleet. ─ Hypertrophied prostate. ─ Excoriation and oozing between the scrotum and the thighs. ─ Erections only in the morning before rising.

Female Sexual Organs

Diminution of sexual desire in women. ─ Catamenia too feeble, and of too short duration. ─ Leucorrhœa a little before the catamenia. ─ Before and during menses: toothache; colic; pain in back.

Respiratory Organs

Catarrh, with cough, voice hollow and low, and fluent coryza. ─ Suffocative catarrh and paralysis of the lungs in old people. ─ Sensation of smoke in the larynx. ─ Spasmodic cough (like whooping-cough) from roughness and tickling in the throat and pit of the stomach. ─ Cough worse in the evening till midnight; after getting the feet cold; from exercise; when lying on the l. side; in the cold air; from thinking of it. ─ Hoarseness and loss of voice, from an accumulation of viscid mucus in the throat and on the chest, with dry cough, chiefly at night, in the evening, or in the morning.

Chest

Difficulty of respiration and shortness of breath, with sensation of fulness in the chest. ─ Pains in the chest, mitigated partly by eructations and partly by external heat. ─ Sensation of soreness in the chest. ─ Sensation, as if something hard dropped down in the chest. ─ Fulness and pressive heaviness on the chest, esp. when ascending, with shooting in the act of respiration.

Heart

Very violent throbbings of the heart. ─ Throbbing of the heart excited by lying on the l. side, or renewed by thinking of it. ─ Palpitation felt in head. ─ Atheroma and aneurism.

Neck and Back

Stiffness at the nape of the neck. ─ Shootings in the nape of the neck. ─ Aching pains in the nape of the neck. ─ Steatoma in the nape of the neck, with burning pain in the bottom of it. ─ Swelling and induration of the glands of the neck. ─ Encysted tumour under the arm-pit. ─ Sacral pains, more violent when seated than when in motion. ─ Tensive stiffness in the loins, aggravated in the evening to such an extent that one cannot get up from one's chair, nor stand up straight. ─ Tension in the shoulder-blades, the nape of the neck, and the muscles of the neck, esp. in a sharp and cold air. ─ Burning pain and throbbing sensation in the back, esp. after mental emotion. ─ Beating and pulsation in the back. ─ Stiffness in the small of the back in the evening, esp. while sitting, which allows neither to rise nor to bend backwards.

Upper Limbs

Swellings of the arms, with pain of the axillary glands. ─ Pain in the deltoid muscle on raising the arm. ─ The arm becomes numbed when one lies down. ─ Hands cold, with bluish spots. ─ Swollen veins and redness of the hands. ─ Hands dry, like parchment. ─ Trembling of the hand when writing. ─ Violent tingling and gnawing in the palm of the hand, with desire to scratch. ─ Peeling off of the skin of the back of the hand, and of the tops of the fingers. ─ The fingers are numbed. ─ Panaris.

Lower Limbs

Pain, as of dislocation or of stiffness of the coxo-femoral joint. ─ Tension in the legs, as if the tendons were too short. ─ Drawing pain in r. nates as if the flesh were being torn off. ─ Violent stitches; burning in nates. ─ Drawing pain down whole l. leg ( Acet .). ─ Burning pains: in nates; in bend of thigh; in knee-pan; in soles. ─ Tractive and acute pains in legs, as if in the bones. ─ Itching in the thighs, even at night. ─ Shootings in the joints of the knee. ─ Tension in the tibia and in the calves and the legs. ─ Cramps in the calves of the legs and in the toes on stretching out the limbs. ─ Inquietude and trembling in the legs and feet. ─ Pain in the joint of the foot, as from a sprain. ─ Fetid sweat of the feet. ─ Ulcers in the feet. ─ Lymphatic and painful swelling in the fleshy part of the great toe. ─ Pain like that of a corn in the callous part of the sole of the foot, esp. when walking. ─ Corns, with burning shootings and pinchings.

Generalities

Pains in the joints and in the hollow bones. ─ Cramp-like pressure or pulling, with paralytic weakness, or tension, as if from contraction of the tendons, in different parts. ─ Paralysis and palsy of aged persons. ─ Acute drawing pains in the limbs, with shuddering. ─ At night, starting of the muscles. ─ Shakings and startings of some of the limbs, and of the whole body during the day. ─ Tearing in the limbs with chilliness. ─ The symptoms exhibit themselves particularly on the l. side, and when sitting; they disappear on movement, or in the open air. ─ Swelling and induration of the glands. ─ Heaviness in the whole body. ─ Great uneasiness and over-excitability of all the senses. ─ Great weakness, which does not permit a long-continued standing posture. ─ Great weakness of mind and body of old men. ─ Necessity to lie down, or to be seated. ─ Intellectual, nervous, and physical weakness. ─ Emaciation, or bloating of the body and of the face, with inflation of the abdomen. ─ Great tendency to catch cold, which commonly occasions inflammation in the throat.

Skin

Sensation in different parts, like the pricks of burning needles, itching and crawling sensations. ─ Intolerable itching and tingling over the whole body at night. ─ Excoriation and oozing in several parts of the skin. ─ Injuries in the skin healing with difficulty. ─ Swelling and induration of the glands. ─ Warts. ─ Whitlows.

Sleep

Somnolency in the daytime. ─ Drowsiness night and day. ─ Nocturnal sleep, agitated, with frequent waking and anxious dreams. ─ At night, ebullition of the blood; strong pulsations of the heart, and sensation in the heart as if it were excoriated, with great anxiety, and inability to lie on the l. side. ─ Sleep with many unquiet dreams.

Fever

Pulse accelerated but weak. ─ Strong disposition to chilliness. ─ Shuddering, with corrugated skin, and uprising of the hair, or with tension of the face. ─ Shuddering, which runs over the whole body, beginning at the face, or at the epigastrium, followed by a transient heat over the whole body. ─ Chilliness relieved by external heat. ─ Flushes of heat, more at night, with great restlessness. ─ Perspiration, one-sided (l.) every other evening.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

Mind

Want of clear consciousness. θ Old age.
Feels stupefied ; as if benumbed ; brain seems to move to and fro as if loose, when moving body.
Weak memory.
Memory deficient ; child cannot be taught, for it cannot remember ; is inattentive.
Forgets what was just said, just done, or what he was going to do or get.
Forgetful ; in middle of a speech the most familiar words fail him.
(bar. a) As if absent ; absentmindedness. θ Apoplexy.
(bar. a) Has no clear perception. θ Apoplexy.
Great mental and bodily weakness ; childishness. θ Old people.
Idiocy.
Imagines he walks on his knees.
Walking in street she imagines men are laughing at her, criticising to disadvantage ; this makes her so timid that she dare not look up or at anybody, and she perspires over whole body.
Delirium, with frightful figures and images before eyes.
Talkative mania ; < during catamenia ; yellow complexion ; white-coated tongue, with red edges, little ulcers on tongue ; nausea without being able to vomit ; fine skin becoming easily denuded. θ Young
girls.
Mania ; talks much and confusedly ; wants to go out of house. θ During pregnancy.
Inclined to make fruitless exertions of memory ; tries to recollect past events.
Loquacity.
Groaning and murmuring. θ Old age.
Childish and thoughtless behavior. θ Old people. θ Apoplexy.
Averse to strangers and company.
Laziness, averse to bodily or mental labor.
Child does not want to play, but sits in corner doing nothing.
Weeping mood.
Sadness, dejection of spirits, grief over trifles.
Hopelessness ; distrust.
Anxious about most trivial affairs.
She is suddenly overwhelmed with an evil apprehension ; she imagines, for instance, that a beloved friend has suddenly fallen sick and is dying.
Solicitude : about his future ; about domestic affairs.
A peculiar dread of men.
Fearful, easily startled.
Nervous anxiety, restlessness, desire to escape.
Irresolute, constantly changing his mind.
The highest degree of irresoluteness ; she proposes a little journey, but as soon as she makes preparation she changes her mind ; she wavers between opposite resolutions ; all self-confidence has disappeared ; great timidity and cowardice.
Loss of self-confidence ; desponding : pusillanimous.
Whining mood.
Sudden ebullitions of anger, but coupled with cowardice.
Very easily frightened ; a little noise in street seems to her like cries of fire ; it frightened her so that all her limbs trembled.
Dull pain in bumps of firmness and concentrativeness, with corresponding symptoms of mind.
Thinking of one's complaints makes them worse.
Worse in company ; better when alone.

Sensorium

Oversensitiveness of all the senses.
At night, in bed, everything rocks within him, as in a ship.
When she raises herself it seems as if her head would be turned inside out.
Sensation as if brain was loose ; seems to move to and fro on motion of body ; feels stupefied, as if benumbed.
(bar. a) He has not his full consciousness ; is childish and stupid. θ Apoplexy.
Vertigo : with nausea ; from stooping ; when lifting arms up ; old people.

Inner head

Headache in evening ; every noise, especially male voices affect brain painfully.
Headache just above eyes.
Pressure on forehead and over eyes ; after Bismuth failed.
Pressure in brain under vertex, towards occiput, on waking, with stiffness of neck.
Pressive sticking in vertex, which extends through whole head, whenever he stands in sun.
Pricking headache near warm stove.
Headache, as if head were compressed in a vise.
Pressive pain, as if skull would split.
Headache oppressive, close above eyes and root of nose.
Distending pain in head and nose.
Pulsation in temples.
Headache < in open air.
Megrim.
Pain in head, with heat of skin. θ Quinsy.
The pain from head extends to nape of neck.
Headache, tension in occiput, towards nape of neck.
Heaviness in occiput, with drowsiness and rheumatic pains.
Rush of blood to head ; blood seems as if it could not circulate.
Apoplexy ; with old people.
Headache of aged people, who are childish ; sensorium not clear ; loss of speech ; trembling of limbs, of drunkards.
Apoplexia serosa.
Stitches in sides of head, after dinner ; in head, in a warm room ; pressure in vertex walking in sun.
Headache in persons who are mentally and physically dwarfish.

Outer head

Hairy scalp, and especially temples and forehead, feel as if something was very lightly drawn over parts, with a sensation of coldness in face.
Numbness in skin of forehead to root of nose.
Right side of head feels burning hot, but is really cold to touch.
Head sensitive to cold ; disposed to catch cold when washing head.
The scalp is very sensitive to touch, especially on side on which he lies, with sensation of suggillation, < from scratching.
Crawling over scalp, as from ants, in spots.
(bar. a) Very disagreeable formication and pricking under skin of head and face.
Crusta lactea, dry scurf ; moist crusts ; itching ; burning ; causes hair to fall out ; cervical glands hard, swollen.
Dry or humid scurf on head.
(bar. a) From whole head a copious discharge, with swelling of cervical glands ; girl, æt. 11. θ Tinea capitis.
Dry tinea, after scarlatina.
Eruptions on head.
Impetigo larvalis.
Encysted tumors on scalp.
Sensation as if hair stood on end, with chilliness.
Falling off of hair ; baldness, especially on crown.
Baldness with young people.

Sight and eyes

Light dazzles and hurts eyes ; fiery sparks before eyes in dark.
Better in the dark : sensitiveness of head.
Optical illusions, generally in bright colors.
Double vision.
Cannot bear to look at one object for any length of time.
Sees everything as in a fog when closing eyes and pressing balls.
Weakness of eyes ; < evening in candlelight ; during day a cloud before left eye ; by candlelight a glimmer.
Sensation of a gauze before eyes in morning after a meal.
Flying webs and black spots before eyes.
Dim-sighted, cannot read.
Weakness of sight with old age.
Morbus Basedowii.
Cataract.
Burning and pressing in eyes, if he looks attentively at anything.
Pressure deep in eyes ; < looking fixedly, or upward and sideways ; > looking downward.
Quick succession of dilatation and contraction of pupils ; pupil irregular.
(bar. a) Immovable pupils. θ Apoplexy. θ Old age.
Opaque cornea ; inflammation of eyes, with sensation of dryness ; shuns light.
Pannus.
Ulceration of cornea. θ Scrofulous ophthalmia.
Eyes look sleepy all day.
Eyes dull, somewhat reddened. θ Old Age. θ Apoplexy.
Redness in white of eye and a white pimple near cornea.
Inflammation of eyes, with sensation of dryness.
Redness of conjunctiva, with swollen lids.
Subacute ophthalmia, with feeling of sand in eyes.
Scrofulous inflammation, with phlyctenulæ and ulcers on cornea ; glands swollen.
Eyeballs and lids inflamed, with photophobia.
Lids agglutinated.
Itching in eyes.
Styes in inner corner of left eye.
Tarsal tumors.
Weight over eyes. θ Typhus.

Hearing and ears

Buzzing and ringing in ears.
Sounds in ear, echoes, cracklings, reports, reverberations.
Roaring in right ear like the sea, at each inspiration.
Cracking in ear when sneezing, swallowing, or walking fast.
Difficult hearing.
Drawing pain in ears ; a kind of twinging earache.
Violent throbbing in left ear. θ Toothache.
Tearing, with boring and drawing in bones in front of r. ear.
Itching in ears.
Eruption on and behind ears.
Scrofulous ear diseases.
Knotty swellings behind ears.
Small flat tubercles behind ears.
Glandular swelling and eruption behind ears. θ Scrofulous ophthalmia.
Scabs behind ears.
Eruption on lobes.
Parotitis after scarlatina.

Smell and nose

Smell extremely sensitive.
She smells pine smoke. θ After pneumonia.
Frequent nosebleed, especially with scrofulous, florid people.
Nosebleed before catamenia.
Tormenting dryness in nose.
Sneezing causing concussive pain in brain.
Fluent coryza.
Secretion of thick, yellow mucus from nose.
Blood and mucus are blown from nose.
Coryza < mornings ; nose and upper lip swollen, nostrils reddened, sore, crusty ; secretion of an unpleasant odor ; (like Calc. and Grap.).
Coryza : nose and upper lip swollen ; children with large abdomen.
Catarrh affecting posterior nares, especially if patient be troubled with frequent epistaxis.
Formation of scabs in posterior nares and behind base of uvula.
Complaints on external nose.
Inflammation of edges.
Tip and edges of nose are painful ; pimples on alæ nasi.
Scurfs under nose.

Upper face

Tension as from a cobweb over face, temples and scalp.
Sense of tension of whole face, as if white of egg had dried on it, with loathing and diarrhœa.
(bar. a) Cadaverous pallor.
(bar. a) Pale face ; drawn features ; eyebrows rather drooping.
Pale, puffy face.
Emaciation, with bloated face ; swelled abdomen.
Sensation as if face were swollen.
Left cheek swollen, also behind ear, with pain in temple. θ Toothache.
Redness of face. θ Quinsy.
Dark redness of face, with congestion.
(bar. a) Circumscribed dark redness of cheeks. θ Apoplexy. θ Old
age.
Face red in evening.
Face very red ; lips purple.
Inflammatory prosopalgia.
Rough, dry place on right cheek.
Herpes faciei.
Eruptions on face.

Lower face

After eating so tired she cannot raise the hands ; too weak to masticate.
Pain in articulation when closing jaw. θ Sore throat.
Jaw could not be depressed sufficiently to examine throat. θ Quinsy.
(bar. a) Mouth drawn to one side. θ Apoplexy.
Tension in lower jaw extends as far as os hyoides.
Lips dark red.
Swelling of upper lip, with burning pain ; coryza.
Lips and gums dry, not relieved by drinking.
Painful swelling of submaxillary glands, with induration. θ After scarlatina.

Teeth and gums

Involuntary chattering of teeth.
Drawing, jerking, throbbing toothache ; right teeth feel tense.
Single jerks in teeth.
Crumbling in a decayed tooth during day.
Toothache : < thinking about it ; disappearing when mind is diverted.
Burning stitches in a hollow tooth when touched by warm food ; left side.
Burning stitches in carious teeth if touched by something warm.
Toothache in decayed teeth before menses.
Toothache, with great disposition to take cold.
Pain in carious teeth always after taking cold, with a pale swelling of gums, swollen cheek, pain extending to nose, eyes and temple ; violent throbbing in ears ; < at night.
Gums swollen around a hollow tooth.
Gums bleed, are swollen, pale red, with a dark red border.
Gums hurt when touched.
Fistula dentalis ; abscesses at the roots.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste : delicate ; bitter ; detestable ; styptic.
Utterance imperfect.
Paralysis of tongue. θ Old people.
Speechless ; tongue paralyzed. θ Apoplexy.
Tongue paralyzed, cannot talk, but seems to be conscious. θ Apoplexy.
Dryness of tongue early in morning, with sensation of swelling of throat.
(bar. a) Cold tongue, somewhat black.
Tongue coated, as if fuzzy.
Hardness on middle of tongue, burning when touched ; burning sense of excoriation at tip ; fissure on left border, feeling excoriated.
Acuminated vesicles on middle of tongue.
Tongue cracked, feels very sore.
Vesicles on middle, tip, or under tongue.
Burning blisters on tip of tongue of long duration.
Pain on side of tongue, as from blisters.

Inner mouth

The buccal cavity feels numb.
Dryness of mouth early after rising.
Hawking mucus ; water runs from mouth all day ; sleeps but an hour, then lies awake until an hour before morning. θ Hypochondriasis.
Much troubled with tough phlegm ; mouth becomes dry, with a kind of thirst.
Saliva runs out of mouth while asleep, at daybreak.
Profuse salivation. θ Quinsy.
Salivation ; inability to swallow ; suffocation ; throat suppurating ; fever. θ Angina tonsillaris.
Intolerable stench from mouth, unnoticed by himself.
Whole mouth filled with vesicles, especially inside of cheeks.

Palate and throat

Scabs behind uvula and posterior nares.
Sensation in pharynx as if a fine leaf lay before posterior nares ; morning, after waking.
Morning : viscid phlegm in fauces. θ Tonsillitis.
Inflammation of cellular membranes of fauces and tonsils, with fever ; difficult swallowing and speaking. θ Quinsy.
Throat is pale instead of having bright redness of Bellad. ; submaxillary parotid glands are swollen and tender ; breath is putrid ; child scrofulous and dwarfish. θ Scarlatina.
θ Diphtheritis.
Stitches in right tonsil.
Inflamed and enlarged tonsils.
Tonsils inflamed, with smallpox or scarlatina, especially if Mercur. and Bellad. prove insufficient.
Acute tonsillitis.
Suppurating tonsils.
Sore throat and swollen tonsils, with ptyalism ; gave speedy relief when symptoms went from right to left.
Angina tonsillaris.
Swelling of parotids, tonsils and submaxillary glands, with much saliva. θ Disease in throat. θ Skin
diseases.
Liability to tonsillitis ; after every slight cold, or suppressed foot sweat.
Disposition to acute tonsillitis, with suppuration.
Chronic angina, with great disposition to return.
Chronic induration of tonsils ; sensation as of a plug in throat ; < after swallowing solids.
Tonsils tend to suppurate, especially right ; palate swollen ; dark brown urine ; sleeplessness.
Tonsils both hypertrophic and indurated, livid and full of varicose veins.
Angina after taking cold, even phlegmonous.
Worse when swallowing food or saliva.
On swallowing, sensation as if food had to force itself over a sore spot.
Sensation in œsophagus as if a morsel of food had lodged there.
Smarting in throat when swallowing ; < from empty swallowing ; throat sore to touch.
Stinging when swallowing saliva and during empty deglutition.
Pressing, stinging pain on swallowing. θ Skin disease.
Attacks of choking in throat after dinner, when sitting and writing, with a sensation as if thyroid was pressed in ; impeding breathing.
Unable to swallow ; liquids taken in mouth were ejected through nostrils. θ Quinsy.
Inability to swallow anything but liquids. θ Spasmodic stricture of œsophagus.
Constant difficulty in swallowing ; < after much talking. θ Tonsillitis.
Œsophageal spasm, in old people ; can only swallow liquids.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Hungry, but cannot eat ; or feels as though she needed food, but did not want it.
Generally loss of appetite.
Aversion to : fruit, especially plums ; sweets.
Sudden disgust for food while at meals.
Constant thirst. θ Quinsy.
Thirst, with dryness of mouth, not relieved by drink.
Thirst, particularly during chill.

Eating and drinking

Is hungry and cannot eat, is sleepy and cannot sleep.
Too weak to chew, too lazy to eat.
After eating so tired that she cannot raise hands ; she is too weak to masticate.
While eating : sudden nausea ; painful writhing while food descends, as if it was passing sore places.
Sweat increased while eating.
Weakness in stomach disappears.
Pressure like a stone in stomach after eating bread ; repletion after a little food.
Worse after meals, particularly after a satisfying meal.
Stomach aches also after eating.
Weakness of digestion after eating, pressing in stomach ; and pain in hard, swollen abdomen.
After meals : indolence ; heat and uneasiness ; faintishness ; belching ; urging to stool ; pressure on bladder ; anxiety in lumbar region ; pain in hard, swollen abdomen.
Cough from eating warm food.
Better from cold diet.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

(bar. a) Nausea.
Sudden nausea while at meals.
Long-lasting nausea.
Nausea, palpitation and anxiety in early morning.
Morning sickness and vomiting.
Eructations after meals.
Eructations : as if air was forcing its way through stomach, causing a feeling of soreness.
Sour eructations.
Eructations ; a lump moving up and down.
Waterbrash.
Water suddenly runs together in mouth.
(bar. a) Retching.
(bar. a) Nausea followed by sudden and very copious vomiting of bile and a brownish substance (consisting no doubt of chocolate taken that morning), after ten hours.
(bar. a) Vomiting almost regularly every hour for twenty-four hours.
(bar. a) Severe attacks of very copious vomiting.
Vomiting fluid, water and chalk, followed by prostration.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Sensitiveness of pit of stomach ; on stepping hard, he feels every step painfully in it.
Stomach aches when touching epigastrium.
Sensation of soreness in stomach ; even when at rest.
Stomach painful when fasting and after eating.
Pressing in stomach, also after eating.
Pressure as from a stone ; better from eructations.
Cramp in stomach, spreading up into throat, followed by eructations which relieve. θ Cardialgia.
Sensation of soreness of stomach ; while eating, it feels as if food had to force itself through.
Gastralgia.
Pain in stomach as if it were too full and tense.
Sense of tension and heaviness in pit of stomach ; as from flatulence and palpitation.
Marked hardness in region of stomach.
It seems as if stomach were hanging relaxed.
Dyspepsia with soreness in stomach.
Softening of stomach in scrofulosis.

Hypochondria

Aching at a small spot in right hypochondria when drawing a deep breath, or from pressure.
(bar. a) Sensation as of a ball in liver.
(bar. a) Swollen feeling and coldness in region of liver.

Abdomen and loins

Feeling of soreness around belly, commencing in back.
Pains in abdomen, about and below navel, which extends downward into thigh, with violent pain on left side, extending forward from point of hip ; pain in region of right groin ; after three days.
On turning in bed, it seems as if intestines fell from one side to the other.
(bar. a) Rumbling in bowels ; borborygmus.
Throbbing here and there in abdomen.
Abdomen hard, tense. θ Scrofulous children.
Mesenteric glands could be felt swollen and hard, with a big belly ; abdominal muscles sore to touch.
Tabes mesenterica.
Distension and fulness above pubes, as if parts would burst, when lying on back.
Abdomen sensitive to touch.
Pain in hard, swollen abdomen.
Weakness of digestion after eating ; pressing in stomach.
Tension and sensitiveness of abdominal walls.

Stools and rectum

Ineffectual urging to stool.
Sudden irresistible urging to stool, with painful soreness in lumbar region, followed by frequent diarrheic stools.
Frequent small stools, with feeling of great relief.
(bar. a) Diarrhœa.
Diarrhœa : with pains in small of back ; at night, with hemorrhoidal pains ; towards morning, preceded by pain in abdomen ; later in day suddenly yellow stool, with mucus and blood.
(bar. a) Involuntary stools.
(bar. a) Semi-liquid stool after hours, followed by constipation.
Stool hard and insufficient.
Difficult, knotty stool.
Scanty, hard or lumpy stool, expelled with difficulty.
Constipation. θ Cardialgia. θ Old age.
Frequent passage of blood, with distended abdomen.
Light-colored stools, sometimes mixed with blood.
Before stool : colic.
During stool : burning in anus and rectum.
After stool : burning in anus ; moisture exuding from piles ; eructations.
Passage of round worms.
Small pin-worms pass with the stool ; in an adult.
Crawling in rectum. θ Ascarides.
Inflammation of subcutaneous cellular tissue on left side of anus, extending 2, 3 inches over left buttock and forward along perineum, having a softening, surrounded by a hard, burning, tender and painful area.
Burning and soreness around anus, as if excoriated.
Anus sore and humid.
Hemorrhoids protrude, not only with stools, but also with urination.
Hemorrhoidal affections.

Urinary organs

Irritation of bladder, greatest at night when in bed.
Great desire to urinate ; cannot retain urine.
Constant urging, and frequent emissions of urine ; every other day.
Urging to make water, and frequent urination.
Frequent micturition. θ Old age.
Urine frequent and copious.
(bar. a) Makes water frequently ; no stool. θ Apoplexy.
(bar. a) When appetite improved and thirst lessened, urinary secretions became very considerable.
Passes much urine at night.
(bar. a) Clear and abundant urine.
Urine clear on passing, soon becomes cloudy.
Dark brown urine. θ Tonsillitis.
On urinating, burning in urethra.
Before urination : urgent desire to urinate.
During urination : burning in urethra.
After urination : renewed straining, with dribbling of urine.
Urine scanty.
(bar. a) Almost complete incontinence of urine and feces.

Male sexual organs

Diminished sexual desire and ability.
Impotence.
Relaxed penis and premature emission.
Emission in an old man, followed by feeling of dryness in whole body.
Excessive nightly emissions.
Emissions in a man, æt. 30, who never had the like.
Insufficient discharge of semen.
Erections only in morning before rising.
Erections while riding. θ Impotence.
Hypertrophied prostate.
Increased purulent gleet.
Gleet, yellowish before urination ; pain in fossa navicularis when pressing it and when beginning to urinate.
Small retracted testicles, with pulsation between shoulders. θ Impotence.
Chronic induration of testicles.
Jerking in glans.
Numbness of genitals for several minutes.
Soreness and moist excoriation between scrotum and thighs.
Sweat about the scrotum.

Female sexual organs

Catamenia scanty and of long duration.
Menses scanty, last only one day.
Before menses : toothache ; swelling of cheeks and gums ; pain in abdomen and back ; leucorrhœa ; swelling of glands ; heaviness of feet.
Toothache ; swelling of limbs.
During menses : toothache ; weight over pubes ; bruised pain in small of back ; colic in every position.
Amenorrhœa ; menostasia and chlorosis, especially of scrofulous girls.
Tearing in vulva, or in affected parts, so violent at intervals that she would like to scream.
Bloody, mucous leucorrhœa, with anxious palpitation of heart, pain in back ; uneasiness and weakness even unto fainting.
Leucorrhœa immediately before menses.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Feeling in larynx as if inspiring smoke or pitch.
Hoarseness and loss of voice from tough mucus in larynx and trachea.
Voice imperfect, aphonia ; from tough mucus in fauces and larynx. θ Old people.
Voice husky, rough. θ Tonsillitis.
(bar. a) Voice extinct.
Hoarseness, with night cough.
Catarrh of trachea.
Spasmodic cough (like whooping cough) from roughness and tickling in throat and pit of stomach.

Respiration

Putrid breath. θ Skin disease.
Short breath from fulness in chest, when ascending a height ; stitches in chest on inspiring.
(bar. a) Respiration gradually more and more embarrassed.
(bar. a) Respiration imperfect and very frequent ; respiratory sound almost inaudible.
Sensation as if lungs were full of smoke. θ After pneumonia.
Oppression : with anguish ; in evening, must loosen her dress ; with backache ; with dry cough.
(bar. a) Inability to cough, to expectorate, to articulate words of more than two syllables (owing to failure in expiration) or to lift head from pillow.
(bar. a) Asthma.
Asthma senile (after Ant. tart.).
Suffocative breathing, especially on lying down. θ Chronic enlargement of tonsils ; with a boy, æt. 6.
Suffocative catarrh of old people, with impending paralysis of lungs.

Cough

Spasmodic cough, excited by tickling and roughness in throat and epigastrium ; worse evening until midnight, lying on left side, active motion, ascending, stooping, in cold air ; from thinking of it ; eating, after getting
feet cold.
Cough in presence of strangers.
Night-cough, with asthmatic breathing.
Cough excited by irritation, felt in cardiac region.
Cough, particularly in evening, till midnight.
Nightly cough, chest full of phlegm.
Cough and coryza.
Cough, with purulent expectoration.
Expectoration predominant, particularly in evening.
Chronic cough in scrofulous children, with swollen glands and enlarged tonsils ; < after slight cold.
Mucous catarrh.
Cough and shortness of breath, with old, phlegmatic persons ; feels a tightness in throat and on chest, phlegm loose and tight by turns ; > in morning, when rising, but as soon as he comes into the room down-stairs he gets a severe attack, and
has to go into open air ; > after breakfast ; cough and rattling < when lying, except when lying on belly, which relieves ; has to sit up frequently in night ; < in damp weather, and after drinking cold water.

Inner chest and lungs

Sensation as if lungs were full of smoke ; she smells pine smoke. θ After pneumonia.
Sensation of soreness in chest, when coughing.
Vomiting from coughing.
Chest full of phlegm.
Heaviness in chest ; < when lying. θ Cardialgia.
Sensation, as if something had dropped down in chest.
Pneumonia, with most violent pains in chest, and flushed cheeks ; in two cases, right side, in one, left.
Suffocative catarrh and paralysis of lungs in old people.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Palpitation ; feels heart beat.
(bar. a) Dull, deep sounds of the heart.
Violent, long-lasting palpitation.
Palpitation when lying on left side, with soreness in region of heart ; great anxiety, renewed by thinking about it.
Orgasm of blood, with anxiety ; congestion to face, with dark redness.
Palpitation felt in head, with throbbing pain in temples, when getting up and walking.
Palpitation of chlorotic or hysteric girls.
Pulse firm and hard.
Pulse generally accelerated, but weak. θ Apoplexy. θ Old age.
(bar. a) Pulse 125-130, very small and frequent.
Full, accelerated pulse, with heat of skin. θ Quinsy.
(bar. a) Pulse remained pretty regular, but notably slackened, 56 instead of 70 ; in similar cases has been observed to fall to 25.
(bar. a) Marked, but very short-lasting, irregularity of pulse, on one occasion.

Outer chest

Chest sensitive to pressure. θ Cardialgia.
Burning stinging and itching in moist, pustular eruption on chest.
Nodes in the breast, painful to pressure, sometimes stitches ; with a fat old man.
(bar. a) Eruption of acne pimples on chest, which disappear in a few days.

Neck and back

Stinging pains in neck.
(bar. a) Fine stitches in neck, followed by suppurating pimples.
Tension in neck and scapulæ ; pains in loins in cold air.
Cramp in neck and left side of throat.
Stiffness in nape of neck.
Swelling on nape on neck, which, little by little, spreads over whole head ; with redness and pain of skin, as from ulceration ; accompanied by considerable swelling of glands in this region.
Swelling of cellular tissue of neck ; glands swollen ; much pain in ears and head. θ Scarlatina.
Swelling of glands in nape of neck and occiput.
Chronic inflammation of cervical glands, right side ; had been very obstinate and resisted other treatment.
Swelling and induration of glands, especially cervical, even after suppuration had commenced.
Fatty tumors, especially about neck.
Sarcoma in neck, with burning.
Throbbing in back, when at rest and from emotions.
Burning in back.
Rheumatic irritation of spine.
In morning on rising, pain between shoulders, so that he is quite stiff therefrom and cannot turn ; afterwards they extend into nape of neck and left shoulder, where they are very violent, thence into vertex and across pectoral muscles into left nipple.
Beating and pulsation in back.
Want of mobility in dorsal spine ; when sitting long it feels as if it would fall in.
Stiffness in back, can hardly rise from a chair. θ Chronic gout.
(bar. a) Spine disease with tinea capitis.
Painful soreness in lumbar region, followed by frequent diarrheic stools.
Pain in lumbar region of spine, followed by apoplexy and paralysis.
Pain in lower vertebræ, with pain in chest.
Pain in small of back. θ Diarrhœa.
Painful drawing in small of back, as if a heavy body was moving downward.
Tensive pain in small of back ; < in evening ; he can neither rise nor bend backward.
Stiffness in small of back, in evening, especially while sitting, which allows neither to rise nor to bend backward.
Itching on small of back and between nates ; must scratch it raw.

Upper limbs

A large glandular swelling in right axilla ; lately very tender, painful, hard and red.
Encysted tumor in arm pit.
Pains in arms, with hard, swollen axillary glands.
Pain in deltoid muscle when raising arm.
When lying on arm it goes to sleep.
Right arm cannot be moved. θ Apoplexy.
(bar. a) Heaviness of left arm, it is moved with difficulty, shoulder alone seems to act ; hand and forearm are paralyzed ; after seven hours.
Tension in small places of arms.
Blood-boils on upper arm.
Veins and hands distended.
Hot hands ; frequently dips them into cold water.
Skin of hands dry and rough.
Cold hands with blue spots. θ Old age.
Fingers numb, as if asleep.
Skin of tips of fingers chapped, peels off.
Panaritium, with nightly throbbing and ulceration, from a splinter.
Warts.

Lower limbs

From left foot, internal stitches through whole thigh into testes, hinders walking.
Said she had pains in thigh during sleep.
Tearing from above downward in right buttock, periodically increasing and decreasing.
Dragging thighs, particularly when going up-stairs, on account of paralyzed feeling in middle of thigh.
Excessive bruised feeling in thighs.
Severe itching on thighs.
Sudden attacks of momentary pain of right knee, as if parts were being ripped with a knife, making leg feel lame.
Sudden sharp pains running through knee force them to sit down, laming knee, after hard work ; most with girls.
In kneeling down, violent shooting in knee, and soon after a peculiar tension in right patella, could not walk well.
Knees totter. θ Apoplexy.
Burning soreness in bend of knees.
Pain in knees and legs.
Cramps in calves.
Coldness of right foot and tension in calf during a walk in open air.
Drawing and tearing pain in legs.
Drawing pain down entire left leg.
Pains in legs at night, as after excessive walking or dancing.
Tension as if tendons were too short ; > lying down ; < when standing.
Tremor of feet while standing, must hold on to something to steady himself. θ Apoplexy. θ Sclerotis.
(bar. a) Giving way of right leg, then of left ; after eight hours.
Paralysis of flexors of feet, with tension in tendons.
Lameness of spavined horses.
Ulcers on feet.
Pimples on feet, which spread.
Soles feel bruised, at night, keeping one awake ; > after rising and walking.
Tearing and stitching in left big toe, with vexation.
Painful lymphatic swelling on ball of big toe.
Corns, burning and stinging.
Fetid foot sweat.
Foot sweat, toes and soles get sore ; odor offensive ; (after silic.).
Checked foot sweat.
After suppression of a fetid foot sweat by a cold foot bath, angina tonsillaris ; (after Bellad. and Mercur. had no effect).

Limbs in general

Stitches in joints, they feel relaxed.
Tearing in limbs, with chilliness.

Rest. position. motion

Rest : throbbing in back.
Sitting : pain in small of back.
Standing : cough < ; tension, as if tendons were too short < ; tremor of feet.
Lying : heaviness in chest < ; tension, as if tendons were too short, better.
Lying on left side : cough < ; palpitation worse.
Lying on belly : cough better.
Stooping : cough < ; vertigo.
Raising arm : pain in deltoid.
Moving body : brain seems to move to and fro.
Active motion ; cough < ; chill <.
Walking : palpitation felt in head.
Ascending : short breath.

Nerves

Nervousness ; excessive irritation of all nerves.
Twitches and jerks of body during day.
At 8 A. M. sudden attack, as if circulation had stopped, and tingling in whole body, extending to tongue and finger tips, with anxiety ; lasted fifteen minutes, followed by prostration.
(bar. a) Indescribable malaise ; after 3, 4 hours.
Weary, with sleepy eyes during whole day.
Heaviness of whole body.
Upper half of body feels numb and stiff.
General weakness of nerves and body.
(bar. a) Increased weakness, could scarcely put out his left arm to ring bell.
Loss of strength.
(bar. a) Alarming debility ; after 2 hours.
(bar. a) General debility ; after 3 or 4 hours.
(bar. a) After first vomiting, muscular relaxation affected posterior muscles of trunk ; too prostrated to remain in his arm-chair, had to go to bed.
(bar. a) Muscular relaxation lasted 24 hours, then gradually but quite rapidly diminished, following same course as when it came on ; in less than 20 hours after first slight movements of feet and hands, he was able to hold himself in a chair and sit up in bed, and could soon take a
few steps on the floor of his room.
Constantly weak and weary, wishes to lean on something, to sit or lie down, and still feels weak and weary.
Too weak even to chew her food.
Great weakness, can hardly sit up in bed ; if attempted, pulse immediately becomes quick and somewhat hard, after a while imperceptible.
Great weakness of mind and body of old men.
(bar. a) The general system remained feeble for more than a month ; the discoloration of tissues and emaciation lasted still longer, and sleep did not become sound and refreshing until eight or ten weeks had elapsed.
Lameness after rheumatism.
Lameness after suppressing foot sweat.
Prostration, cannot stand, knees give way.
(bar. a) Lies on his back in bed ; deprived of voluntary motion.
General paralysis of old people ; loss of memory ; childishness ; trembling of limbs. θ After apoplexy.
Paralysis and palsy of aged persons.
Paralysis after apoplexy.
(bar. a) The paralysis extends rapidly from above downward.
Paralysis affecting first abdominal muscles, next those which have their insertions in chest, then those of neck, and lastly sphincters of bladder and rectum.
(bar. a) Death in about twelve hours after taking poison, with undisturbed intellect and without having stirred from his supine posture.

Sleep

Great drowsiness during day.
Sleepiness day and night.
Sleepy and cannot sleep ; hungry and cannot eat.
(bar. a) Coma. θ Apoplexy.
Sopor. θ Old age.
Sleeplessness. θ Tonsillitis. θ Old people. θ Hypochondriasis.
Awakens often at night ; feels too hot ; soles feel bruised.
Sleep full of internal uneasiness.
(bar. a) Wants to sleep all the time, but in his sleep an inward restlessness ; moaning and muttering. θ Apoplexy.
Talking in sleep ; old men.
Delirious and flighty when asleep.
Ravings of fancy at night and stupefaction.
Faint feeling at night, she had to vomit.
Twitching of muscles of whole body during sleep.
Restless whole night on account of internal heat ; a child.
Night sweat.
Complains of pain in thigh during sleep.
During sleep lies on side.
On awaking, pressure in limbs ; tired, weary limbs.
Feels heavy, bruised, stupid after a siesta.

Time

Daybreak : saliva runs out of mouth, while asleep.
Morning : erections before rising ; coryza < ; dryness of tongue ; sensation in pharynx as if a fine leaf lay before posterior nares after waking ; viscid phlegm in fauces ; nausea, palpitation and anxiety < ; sickness ; cough < on arising ;
pain between scapulæ ; cough >.
At 8 A. M. : sudden attack, as if circulation had stopped.
All day : eyes look sleepy ; weariness ; water runs from mouth.
During day : crumbling in decayed tooth ; twitches and jerks of body ; great drowsiness ; sleepiness ; flushes of heat.
Evening : headache ; face red ; oppression, must loosen dress ; expectoration prominent ; pain in small of back < ; chill alternately with heat.
Evening until midnight : spasmodic cough.
Night : in bed everything rocks within him, as in a ship ; toothache < ; diarrhœa ; irritation of bladder ; passing much urine ; seminal emissions ; cough < ; throbbing in panaritium ; pain in legs ; sleepiness ; awakens often ;
fanciful ravings and stupefaction ; faint feeling, she had to vomit ; restlessness ; sweats ; chill alternating with heat ; flushes of heat ; intolerable tingling over body.

Temperature and weather

Cold air : cough < ; pain in loins ; head sensitive.
Cold food : generally better.
Cold water : cough <.
Cold washing : disposed to catch cold.
Open air : headache < ; tension in calf.
Damp weather : cough worse.
In sun : pain on vertex.
Near warm stove : headache worse.
Warm food : cough worse.

Fever

Chilliness.
Tearing in limbs, with chilliness.
Local chill on upper part of body.
Chill from face or pit of stomach down body ; or beginning in feet.
Often as if cold water was poured over one ; > from external warmth ; thirst during chill.
Chill generally one (left) sided.
Chilliness relieved by external heat.
Chill increased by exercise ; > in warm room.
First chill, then heat.
Chill alternating with heat ; evening and night.
Cold hands and feet, with hot cheeks.
Flushes of heat, more at night, with great restlessness.
Frequent flushes during day ; nightly attacks, with great anxiety and restlessness.
Heat towards evening, with little thirst ; violent pulsation externally into head ; on rising, vertigo, even to falling ; heat the whole night, with disturbed sleep ; next day violent thirst ; pours down whole glasses of water ; has a very thick white
coating on tongue.
Hot hands, often plunges them into cold water.
Sweat increased in presence of strangers.
Heat of single outer parts.
Anxious sweat.
Offensive sweat of one (mostly left) side.
Sweat increased by eating.
Sweat returned every other evening.
Consumptive fever.

Attacks, periodicity

Returning at 4 P. M. : pressure in bones of occiput.
Every other evening : sweat.
Increasing and decreasing periodically.

Locality and direction

Right : head hot ; roaring in ear ; rough, dry place on cheek ; teeth feel tense ; stitches in tonsil ; tonsil tends to suppurate ; pain in groin ; pneumonia ; chronic inflammation of cervical glands ; glandular swelling in
axilla ; arm cannot be moved ; tearing in buttock ; pain in knee ; tension in patella ; coldness of foot ; leg gives way.
Left : cloud before eye ; styes on eyelid ; throbbing in ear ; inflammation of subcutaneous tissue over buttock ; lying on side, cough < ; pneumonia ; cramp in side of throat ; pain in shoulder ; pain in nipple ; heaviness of arm ;
stitches in foot ; pain down leg ; leg gives way ; stitching in great toe ; offensive sweat of side.
Right to left : sore throat symptoms move.
Above downward : tearing in right buttock ; pain in leg.
Below upward : stitches in left foot.

Sensations

As if heat would be turned inside out ; as if brain was loose ; as if head were compressed in a vise ; as if skull would split ; as if blood could not circulate ; as if something was drawn over scalp lightly ; as if hair stood on end ; as if
white of egg had dried on face ; as if face were swollen ; tongue as if fuzzy ; as if throat were swelling ; as from blisters on side of tongue ; as if a fine leaf lay before posterior nares ; as of a plug in throat ; as if food had to force itself over
sore spot in œsophagus ; as of a stone in stomach ; as if thyroid was pressed in ; as if air was forcing through stomach ; as if intestines fell from one side to other, in turning in bed ; as if inspiring smoke or pitch ; as if a heavy body was moving downward
in back ; as if lungs were full of smoke ; as of a ball in liver ; as if something had dropped down in chest ; as if pubes would burst ; as if spine would fall in ; as if ripped with a knife, right knee ; as if cold water was poured over one.
Boring : in front of right ear.
Stitches : in side of head ; burning in hollow tooth ; in right tonsil ; in nodes in breast ; in neck ; through thigh into testes ; in left big toe ; in joints ; in chest.
Stinging : in throat ; eruption on chest ; in neck ; in corns.
Pricking : headache ; head and face ; in skin.
Pressive sticking : in vertex.
Shooting : in knee.
Jerking : toothache ; in glans penis.
Tearing : in front right ear ; in right buttock ; in legs ; in left big toe ; in limbs ; in long bones ; in vulva.
Drawing : in ears, and twinging toothache ; in small of back ; in legs.
Burning : of right side of head ; in eyes ; in upper lip ; stitches in hollow teeth ; of tongue and tip ; in anus ; in urethra ; eruption on chest ; in back ; in bend of knees ; in corns ; in rectum.
Smarting : in throat.
Distending pain : in head and nose.
Crumbling : in decayed tooth.
Pressure : on forehead ; over eyes ; in brain ; under vertex ; in vertex ; in eyes ; in throat ; in stomach ; on bladder ; in limbs.
Aching : in right hypochondrium ; in stomach.
Concussive pain : in brain.
Soreness : in stomach ; around belly ; in lumbar region ; around anus ; in chest ; bend of knees ; in region of heart.
Throbbing : toothache ; in ears ; in temples ; in back ; in panaritium ; in abdomen.
Beating and pulsating : in back.
Bruised pain : in small of back ; in thighs ; in soles.
Dull pain : in bumps of firmness and concentrativeness.
Oppressive headache : above eyes and root of nose.
Cramp : in stomach ; in neck and throat ; in calves.
Tension : in occiput ; over face, temple and scalp ; in lower jaw ; in teeth ; in stomach ; of abdomen ; in neck and scapula ; in small of back ; in small places in arms ; in right patella ; in right calf ; in legs ; in
long bones ; in skin.
Undefined pain : in head ; in articulation ; on tongue ; in abdomen ; in small of back ; between shoulders ; in lower vertebræ and chest ; in arms ; in deltoid muscle ; in thigh ; in knees and legs ; in right groin ; in
fossa navicularis ; in loins.
Heaviness : in occiput ; of feet ; in chest ; of left arm ; of whole body.
Weight : over eyes ; over pubes.
Tingling : over whole body.
Crawling : over scalp ; on face, in rectum.
Paralyzed feeling : in thigh.
Numbness : in skin of forehead to root of nose ; of genitals ; of fingers ; of upper half of body.
Tickling : in throat.
Itching : in eyes ; in ears ; eruption on chest ; on small of back ; between nates ; on thighs.
Dryness : of eyes ; in nose ; of lips and gums ; of tongue ; in whole body.
Coldness : in face ; of tongue ; of right foot ; in region of liver.

Tissues

Dwarfish, defective mental and physical growth.
Many of symptoms suggest sclerosis of brain and spine, especially in children and the aged. Compare Bar. m
Swelling on nape of neck, which, little by little, spreads over the whole, with redness and pain of skin, as from ulceration, accompanied with considerable swelling of glands in this region for several days.
Swelling and induration of glands.
Fistulous ulcers in glands ; mostly glands of neck ; feeling of tension.
Adenitis.
Incipient suppuration in glands (axillary), and in cellular tissues in any part of body.
Glandular sequela of scarlatina.
Scrofulosis.
Tension and shortening of muscles.
Tearing and tension in long bones ; boring in bones.
(bar. a) Tubular bones.
(bar. a) Joints.
Dropsy after scarlatina.
Emaciation, with bloated face, swelled abdomen, and difficult comprehension in children.
Great emaciation in scrofulosis and skin diseases.
Atrophy, great weakness ; face red and abdomen bloated ; glands swollen ; difficulty in learning to walk.
Atrophia scrofulosis (next to Calc. ostr.).
Marasmus senilis
Induration of tissues.
Steatoma.
Sarcoma, with burning.
Fatty tumors.
Encysted tumors.
Lupoid (tuberculoid) and cystic tumors.
Cystic growths, particularly on skull.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : scalp sensitive ; gums hurt ; tongue burns ; throat sore ; abdomen sore.
Touching epigastrium : stomach aches.
Pressure : chest sensitive ; nodes in breast sensitive.
Small wounds ulcerate and get very sore.

Skin

Skin diseases.
Tension in skin.
Skin hot and dry.
(bar. a) Skin cool and rather moist ; or covered with profuse sweat.
Itching, pricking, burning, here and there ; not relieved by scratching or rubbing.
Scratching causes pricking ; pimples.
Intolerable tingling over whole body, especially in back, hips, legs, malleoli, dorsa of feet and fingers, waking him at night, and forcing him to scratch continually.
Itching, aggravated by scratching.
Itching of skin, eruption invisible.
Dry exanthemata.
Scarlatina miliaris.
Ringworms.
Soreness and humid skin.
A small wound, as from a splinter, throbs and ulcerates.
Pimples on feet suppurate and spread like ulcers.
Red, excoriated, moist, burning places between scrotum and thigh.
Skin does not heal readily.
Ulcers, with scanty discharge.
Soreness and moistening between scrotum and thighs.
Panaritia.
Warts.

Stage of life, constitution

Hysteric persons, and such as incline to taking cold.
Suitable for affections of first childhood, but more particularly for old age, with mental or physical weakness.
Is especially suitable for dwarfish women.
Complaints of dwarfish children, those who do not grow.
Girl, æt. 7, after crusta lactea, scurfs on throat.
Girl, æt. 13, little developed, scrofulous, frequent tonsillitis, each time suppurating.
Scrofulous children ; dwarfish ; mind and body weak ; scurfs on head, ears, nose ; eyes inflamed, opaque cornea ; colic abdomen swollen ; face puffed ; general emaciation.
Persons subject to quinsy ; especially those who suffer from inflammation of throat and swelling of tonsils after the least cold.
Women in climacteric years, menses always scanty. θ Cardialgia.
Especially adapted to diseases of old men.
Drunkards' complaint from taking cold after overheating, distorted mouth ; tongue paralyzed ; aphonia ; clear consciousness ; motion of arms impaired.
(bar. a) An old drunkard, after a cold. θ Apoplectic.
Old people weakened from bleeding. Apoplexy.
Man, æt. 84. θ Apoplexy.
Old people, after having been feeble and tottering for a long while. θ Apoplexy. θ Paralysis.
(bar. a) Old cachectic people of scrofulous habit, especially when they suffer with gouty complaints.
Old people, especially when fat.

Relations

The symptoms marked '(bar. a)' are from Bar. ac .
Antidotes : Ant. tart., Bellad., Camphor., Dulcam., Mercur., Zincum .
Useful after : Scilla (pneumonia notha) ; after Arsen . (scrofula).
Frequently useful before or after Sulphur .
Incompatible : Calc. ostr . (scrofulosis).
Similar to : Alum., Ant. tart . (paralysis of lungs) ; Bellad., Calc. ostr . (scrofulosis, coryza, etc.) ; Calc. jod . (large tonsils) ; Caustic .
(paretic symptoms) ; Chamom., Cinchon., Conium , (old people) ; Dulcam . (tendency to catch cold) ; Fluor. ac . (old people) ; Iodium
(glands) ; Laches., Lycop . (tonsils) ; Magn. carb., Mercur . (colds, glands, diarrhœa) ; Natr. carb., Phosphor., Pulsat., Sepia (ringworms) ; Silic .
(glands, foot sweat, etc.) ; Sulphur., Tellur .

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

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

Generalities

Baryta carbonica is an interesting study, because it is fully proved and a constitutional remedy. Such remedies are always more interesting than the short-acting, superficial ones. They take hold in deep-seated, long-lasting, miasmatic troubles.

This remedy looks towards the development of the young. You will see in the text commonly expressed under this medicine, "dwarfishness."

That does not always mean small in stature as it is spoken of in this remedy. Dwarfishness in body and mind; mental dwarfishness, and dwarfishness of organs.

You realize what precocity means; young persons who are unusually brilliant; well advanced mentally. We say they are beyond their years. They are precocious.

Get this in mind first, and think what it means; and then in the Baryta carb. constitution, we have the very opposite state.

That is what we mean by dwarfishness. Children are late coming into usefulness; or activity; late with their studies; late! learning to talk; late learning to read; late learning to make the combinations that enter into life; late learning to take in images, and form perceptions; to take on their activities; to do their work.

Late

We say sometimes that Calc. carb. is late in learning to walk, but Baryta carb. is also late learning to walk, although it has an entirely different cause.

To express it in a common, old-fashioned way, Baryta carb. is late learning how to walk, even with pretty good limbs. Calc . has miserable, weakly limbs, flabby muscles, poor bones, and hence he is late learning to walk.

"Late walking" is Calc.

"Late learning to walk" is Baryta carb.

It competes also with Borax and Natrum mur. All three of these medicines have a peculiar kind of tardiness in the development of the brain, so that they are late learning to do things; late in developing.

But Baryta carb. leads them all in this late coming into the activities and uses of life.

You will have patients to treat, where this slow development manifests itself in girls. 18 to 25 years of age, who do the things they did when they were children, and say things as they said them when they were children.

"Childish manner of doing things, and childish behavior. Playing with dolls and saying foolish things."

They have not come into womanhood. They are late in taking on the activities and uses of the woman. They lack the prudence of the woman. They have not become circumspect, and say things just as a boy or just as a little girl would say them.

That is the dwarfishness of the mind. To appreciate that late development, and to see it in Baryta carb. from all of its symptoms and peculiar features, leads to a strong grasp of the remedy.

There is some of this found in such remedies as Graph., Sulph. and Calc., but nothing compared to this remedy. This seems to suspend the development that makes the child into a man or a woman.

It is not a small person that makes me think of Baryta carb., but the dwarfishness that is mental, and that is of organs.

Organs, as it were, become paralyzed, or one organ does not develop. It stops, and the others go on. That would make me think of this remedy. A single organ fails to mature, and the others go on; one-sidedness, a partiality of development.

Lymphatic glands

The next grand feature of this remedy is its affinity for the lymphatic glands all over the body. The glands all over the body enlarge and indurate; the glands of the neck, the glands of the groin, the lymphatics in the abdomen are all affected-knotty chains form in the neck.

With a few other things that we will put together shortly we will see in this patient a peculiar figure. It has emaciation-gradual dwindling in persons who have been fat, who have been well nourished.

It has an enlarged abdomen. It has been found suitable in marasmus, for children with enlarged glands, enlarged abdomen; emaciation of the tissues, emaciated limbs and dwarfishness of mind, and you have there all the whole Baryta carb. marasmus.

The patient himself is chilly; sensitive to cold; wants to be well wrapped. Marked weakness with feeble pulse is a strong feature and he must lie down; he is worse standing and sitting.

The weakness is worse after eating. His pains are better from motion and in the open air. His complaints are aggravated by cold. The enlarged glands take on tenderness and congestion from being exposed. The tonsils gradually increase. The glands of the neck increase in size, and in hardness, from every cold and from becoming chilled.

"Swelling and induration of glands. Inflammation of glands with infiltration."

Infiltration belongs to the remedy. The glands become harder and harder. Ulcers become indurated in their base. Open sur faces become indurated in their walls.

When a child has almost any disease, measles, scarlet fever, mumps, or even a bad cold, or a malarial attack, the development ceases and dwarfishness results, a state in which he was not born, but a state that he has acquired, arrest of development.

It brings on emaciation and dwindling of the whole body, except the abdomen, which gradually enlarges. These are phases not to be overlooked in the very beginning, because the symptoms only help to establish this basis and these troubles and tissue changes come on as ultimates.

Another grand feature in this remedy is the application of these things to more advanced years. We say this is a childhood state, this is the state of youth and arrested development.

Now it does not matter whether we have this arrested development in youth, in childhood, or at the advanced age of fifty. From some strange circumstance which we are not able to fathom we say the individual is taking on the, appearance of old age.

Premature old age

We call it premature old age. Baryta carb. has cured lingering complaints that have resulted from malaria, overwork, mental or physical, prolonged mental strain, when the appearance of premature old age was a prominent feature.

Old age creeps upon him too soon. There is but little difference between childhood and old age, and hence old age is called second childhood; but we always regret to see a man under seventy becoming childish, and yet we do see many becoming simple and childish. It does not mean merely imbecility, but childlike behavior.

Doing and saying things like a child. So in premature old age these symptoms lead us to think of Baryta carb.

Baryta carb. has cured fatty tumors, encysted tumors, lupus, outward growths of tuberculous character, sarcoma; and it has mitigated the pains and sufferings and has prolonged life in cancerous affections.

Mind

Mentally it is worthy of careful study, and we will see cropping out in the mental symptoms all of the phases intermingled with tissue changes.

The Baryta carb. child will be seen hiding behind the furniture when strangers come in; will hide as for shame of something or as if afraid. It imagines all sorts of strange things, that it is talked about, or laughed at.

It does not seem to advance. It does not seem to do any good to teach it, for it does the same things over and over and remains untrained. They either cannot comprehend, or they can not memorize, or they cannot maintain a thought, and you go over it and over it, and the mother wonders if that child is ever going to learn something, and the teacher reports that the child lacks capacity.

The teacher cannot comprehend it, the mother cannot comprehend it, but the homoeopathic physician should know all about it at once. If he knows his Materia Medica he should be well up in the development of a feeble child; those who are going towards rickets, who are feeble, who are always depending on somebody, fitted only for menial places.

The homeopathic physician does well when he trots the little Johnnies and the little Susies on his knee and takes a good fair observation of their ability, and of what they lack, and understands how to build up what is lacking. Is not that in itself worth working for?

It requires all of the potencies that have ever been made to master constitutions. Some will require medium potencies, some very low, some very high. Let us not deprive our little ones of anything they need. Only so we look forward to the highest use, to develop them into their fullest capacity.

There is an expression here in the text,

"Want of clear consciousness."

Do we not see from what I have said, what that must mean in this remedy, and that it is different in this remedy from what it is in a good many others?

And yet if you had read that symptom first you would not have appreciated it.

"A want of clear consciousness."

Especially in old age has that been useful. It is not that confusion of mind that we know to be dizziness. But he is not clear in his intellect. We see how this medicine takes hold of the intellect. It takes hold of his memory. It begins with a feeble state, and it gradually travels toward imbecility.

You press it to its extreme and it has imbecility, and up to this we have degrees all along the line from the very beginning, from a mere matter of cloudiness in his thoughts to imbecility.

When the Baryta carb. babies appear in the clinic they will keep the hand up over the face and peek out through the fingers.

Bashful. Timid. Easily frightened. Afraid of strangers. Other remedies have similar features, but it is a strong feature of this medicine. Withered face. Sickly countenance. It is the idea of hiding, the idea of timidity.

The child does not want to play, and it sits in the corner. Does not pay any attention to its hammer, if it is a boy; or its doll, if it is a girl. Sits and sits. Does not seem to be thinking; a lack of ability to think.

Children grow up without any distinctiveness, without any ability to perceive, and therefore fail to develop. Always. borrowing trouble.

Like Caust., fear of something going to happen. Full of imaginations; imaginary cares and worries. Hatching up all sorts of complaints and grievances that may happen. A good deal like Ars. Children in a constant whining mood; always whining. Running through the complaints will be the sufferings of the parts, or the men symptoms.

"The more he thinks about the complaint the worse it gets."

If he thinks about his troubles, his sufferings, they at once grow worse. Premature old age and brain fag from prolonged mental work.

Head

Troublesome headaches.

"Pressure in the brain."

A feeling of looseness in the brain, as if the brain fell from side to side or was rising and falling. A sensation of motion in the brain when moving the head or from sudden jar.

Seems as if the brain moves to and fro to correspond to the motions of the head when the head is turned from, side to side.

"Pressing headaches."

Headaches ameliorated in fresh air, in the open air, and aggravated from heat. That is the opposite of its general state. The Baryta carb. general state is aggravated from cold; he is sensitive to cold, and his complaints come on from becoming cold; but his headaches are ameliorated in cool air.

The Baryta carb. patient is often sensitive to the extremes of heat and cold. Hot weather will bring on complaints. Hot weather will cause the blood to mount to the head, and favors apoplectic conditions.

It has many complaints of the head like unto the stupor of apoplexy. It has some of the paralytic conditions analogous to the complaints in old apoplectics, and it has been very useful in re-establishing the supply and flow of nerve force along the nerves.

It parallels Phos ., and is an excellent remedy for old paralytic conditions that have come from a rupture of a blood vessel, and therefore pressure upon the nerve supply.

The headaches are congestive, pressive headaches; a feeling of pressure in the brain.

These puny infants, such as we have described, have eruptions upon the head; eczema upon the head; and those who are born for better things have the eruption driven back by ointments and applications.

"Moist crusts upon the scalp."

"Dry eruptions upon the scalp. Falling off of the hair. Baldness."

Head complaints and a dwarfish state of mind, an intellectual defect, as results of suppressed eruptions.

Eyes

It is full of eye symptoms.

"Granular lids. Thickening of the eyelids, thickening of all of the membranes and tissues about the eyes. Opacity of the cornea."

Infiltration of the various coverings. It has cured cataract it has cured various kinds of dim sightedness, but especially in those that things look hazy,

"looking as through a fog or through smoke."

Ulceration of the cornea. Little white spots, causing defective vision .

"Lids agglutinated in the morning." Styes.

"A sensation of weight in the upper lids."

A sensation of weight in the brow with headaches as if the forehead was pressing down over the eyes.

Like Carbo veg., Carbo an. and Natr. mur . The patient will often grasp the whole forehead with the hands, and say,

"I feel as if the forehead was pressing down over the eyes."

Ears

he has many noises in the ears, but especially cracking and flapping when breathing, swallowing and chewing; better while lying. It affects the right ear most. Rushing sounds in the ears when breathing.

"Eruptions about the ears. Glandular swellings and eruptions about the ears."

Inflammation of the parotid glands, with hardness.

First, it may be called swelling, but it is finally permanent enlargement and induration, and it means a great growth sometimes.

Other glands about the neck are affected in association with the ear troubles. Knots of lymphatic glands down the neck under the ear (Bar. m., Tub.).

Sometimes the sub-maxillary gland is affected, being enlarged and indurated. Sometimes the tonsils enlarge and indurate. All these glands inflame and become sensitive, and get a little larger, after any exposure to cold, and from sudden changes of the weather, It is a wonderful medicine for the cure of enlarged glands.

Tonsils

Clinically it is laid down in the books for suppuration of these glands, but all my life I have failed to find it a good remedy for suppuration. The inflammation is more likely to turn into an increased infiltration.

It is laid down in the books here for suppuration of the tonsils, but from long experience it is one of the last remedies I would think of for suppuration of the tonsils. It may have done so, but it has not been my observation that it runs that way, and I am very much in doubt about the great value and high marking of that observation. But it certainly has infiltration gradually increasing from becoming cold.

The enlarged tonsils will redden up and inflame and become painful, and the acute inflammation and pain will subside, but the tonsils are a little larger than with the last cold. In that way the tonsils keep growing. In children these are often cut out.

There are instances in which I might admit it was necessary to cut them off, when there is a wonderful superabundance, creating much disturbance in swallowing and in speaking.

Two or three times I have absolutely failed to cure with remedies selected to the best of my ability, and they have gone to the surgeon and he has cut them off; but I believe these tonsils ought to be all cured.

One thing in Homoeopathy taught in Hahnemann's Organon is that unless there are symptoms to indicate the remedy, no great things should be expected from the administration of the remedy.

The enlargement of the tonsils alone is not a symptom upon which a remedy can be selected, and it necessitates guessing a dozen times, and perhaps not hitting at all.

That is the worst sort of practice, guessing at a remedy; yet there are children having enlarged tonsils that appear to us without any symptom whatever to select a remedy by.

The symptoms to prescribe on are such as represent the patient, not the glands; not the changed tissue. We must always regret that the surgeon must come in, for in cutting off anything it may be done to the constitutional detriment of the patient.

Yet there are things that have to be done that we know are to the constitutional detriment of the patient. We have to keep servants on their feet to earn their living, and operations have to be performed upon them, because they cannot lie up a year or two to be cured.

The surgeon will always have a place with us, but let us do our part as physicians first.

Eruptions upon the face. The face is sickly, often purple, red and bloated, or lean and emaciated, looking old and withered. The infant looks like a little old person, like the state we find in Nat. mur. and Calc. With face troubles, with teeth troubles, and especially with throat troubles, enlarged glands under the jaw and down the neck.

Ear diseases following scarlet fever. Enlargement and induration of the parotids and of the submaxillary glands after scarlet fever. Scarlet fever often stirs up much trouble in the economy, especially when it has not been properly treated, when it has been treated by the allopath, or by a nervous homoeopath.

A nervous homoeopath is one who does not wait for his own convictions to be ultimated, does not wait for his remedy to work, and he gives another and another, and by the time the scarlet fever runs its course the patient becomes dreadfully sick, ends up with ear troubles, enlarged glands and sometimes kidney affections.

When it runs into car troubles and enlarged glands of the neck this is one of the several remedies to be studied.

"Paralysis of the tongue in old people. Weakness of the tongue in old people. Hardness of the tongue in old people."

Premature old age and giving out of muscles. There is a catarrhal state in this remedy, an accumulation of mucus, in the nose, throat, larynx and trachea. It is very suitable for old, people who have rattling in the trachea.

On every cold change of the weather, and on every exposure to the cold, he gets an additional aggravation of the rattling. Rattling respiration. There are a few remedies that have, in such high degree, this coarse rattling in the chest of old people, that it is well to emphasize it.

Baryta carb. is one of them. Senega, Ammoniacum and Baryta muriatica should be compared. When there is coarse rattling in the chest all the time in an old person, an octogenarian, who is pretty comfortable in summer, but miserable all winter from the coarse rattling in the chest, and there are no other symptoms, Ammoniacum will keep him comfortable.

Throat

The sore throat in this remedy has numerous symptoms.

"Inflammation of cellular tissue of fauces and tonsils."

This remedy is one in general catarrhal symptoms of the throat. Granulations of the throat, so that the pharynx looks shiny, studded with coarse granules becoming inflamed with every cold spell, or from being chilled.

Every cold change inflames the tonsils, and in children they very soon enlarge. Children with enlarged tonsils, and with enlarged glands in other places, somewhat dwarfish intellectually, slow to learn, Baryta carb. will cure the enlarged tonsils.

But these, you see, are constitutional symptoms. You are not selecting the remedy purely on enlarged tonsils.

"Inflammation of the tonsils."

The inflammation not so violent as that which comes in Bell ., it does not come on in a night, it does not go on rapidly to suppuration; but it is a very sore throat, has come on slowly after many days of exposure and there is gradual growth and gradual development.

That is the character of the Baryta carb. tonsillitis; while that of Bell . comes on with great rapidity. Hepar is also rapid and goes on to suppuration. There is a remedy for inflammation of the tonsils where the ear is involved and is ameliorated by heat, that very few use, but it is of great value; it is Chamomilla , and it is especially indicated if the patient is irritable.

The pain is ameliorated by heat and comes on with great violence. It might be mistaken for a Bell. inflammation, but Cham. cures it permanently.

"Sensation of plug in the throat;" that is, the tonsils are so large they feel like a great ball or great lump in the throat.

They change the character of the voice, cause difficulty.

"Much burning in the throat. Inability to swallow anything but liquids."

This irritation keeps up a constant choking and spasmodic constriction in the throat; contractions, and drawings, and crampings in the throat.

It also has a spasm in the oesophagus when swallowing, especially in old nervous, or prematurely broken-down people.

"Spasm in the oesophagus. Difficulty in swallowing."

The bolus of food goes down a little way, and then causes spasms, and he gags and chokes. This gagging and choking with a little food is a very strong feature in Kali c., Graph. and Merc. cor.

This is also a strong feature of Baryta carb., but much stronger in Merc cor.

The troubles of eating and drinking and appetite and stomach can all be run together.

Stomach and abdomen

There is weakness of digestion, all sorts of disorders and disagreeable sensations in the stomach after eating. Sometimes gastralgia; sometimes distension.

"Stomach aches after eating."

Extreme weakness after eating. Abdomen hard and tense.

"Mesenteric glands swollen and hard; with a big belly; abdominal muscles sore to touch."

It has cured, in the early stages, tabes mesenterica. It has cured the enlarged abdomen of children, when there was emaciation of the limbs, emaciation everywhere, knots of enlarged glands and a dwarfed intellect.

Baryta carb. has an inveterate constipation.

"Difficult knotty stools. Stool hard, and insufficient."

A lack of action in the rectum, and hemorrhoidal protrusion during stool and urination.

Genitals male

Of the male sexual organs we have some strange features. This medicine takes away all sexual desire and ability, leaving the genitals relaxed, and in a state of impotency.

"Relaxed penis. Impotence. Diminished sexual desire. Hypertrophied prostate. Atrophied testicles."

It cures old gleety discharge from the urethra. An old, painless, whitish, gleety discharge that has been in existence a long time. It is an offensive discharge and there is no inflammation.

"Numbness of the genitals."

Genitals female

The female has many troubles. Sterility. Dwindling of the ovary. Dwindling of the mammary glands, and yet the lymphatics become enlarged and infiltrated.

A passive leucorrhoeal discharge, whitish, thick, persistent, often copious, worse about a week before the menstrual period.

Larynx

With some a constitutional weakness takes hold of the larynx; a paralytic weakness. Voice entirely lost.

Or, "hoarseness and huskiness."

Low, deep voice. Aphonia from constitutional weakness, and from paralysis. Feeling in the larynx all the time as if inhaling smoke, or pitch, or sulphur fumes, or dust.

With the hoarseness there is a chronic dry, hoarse, barking cough; not a hard cough, but it comes every night. Suffocative cough of old people.

It says here, "impending paralysis of the lungs."

Chest and cough

That is in keeping with the general nature of the remedy. Chest full of mucus, but unable to expectorate it.

You observe from the effort made in the cough that there is a weakness somewhere, a lack of power. It is not a strong effort.

"Night cough, with asthmatic breathing."

Cough excited by irritation in the larynx and trachea. There is a cough in Baryta carb. where he coughs and coughs, and gets no relief until be lies on the abdomen; and so long as he lies on the abdomen he is free from cough.

Palpitation from slight exertion when lying on the left side when thinking about it, with anxiety and orgasm of blood, with strong pulsation in the head, rapid pulse. Palpitation in chlorotic girls.

Tension in the muscles of the back. Swelling of the glands of the back of the neck.

" Swelling of the cervical glands. Fatty tumors upon the back."

A number of times a patient has said,

"Doctor, did you intend to take away that fatty tumor I had on my back?

The chances are I did not know he had one. That is generally, the way such things appear in the practice of the homoeopathic physician, for he does not prescribe for the tumor, and the chances are he thinks little about the tumor in his prescription; he gives the constitutional medicine, and they often disappear after a while, and then the patient thinks the doctor has done a wonderful thing.

He gets more glory and more credit for curing a wart than he does for curing the patient. The doctor who prescribes correctly turns the vital state into order.

He cures the patient, and the patient, being in a state of order, commences to repair his body, and the tissues go through a general house cleaning and such things as are not needed are dispensed with; and the physician is considered a wonderful man.

So this remedy cures tumors and warts. Warts upon the limbs, and upon the back, and upon the hands.

The pains are of a gouty, rheumatic character, worse from becoming cold and from cold weather. Paralytic weakness and trembling and numbness of the feet.

Offensive perspiration of the feet which causes soreness of the soles, ulcers on the feet, checked foot sweat. Trembling of the feet while standing and tottering while walking. Tearing, drawing pains in lower limbs. Sudden sharp pains in knees.

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Characteristic

Especially adapted to complaints of first and second childhood; scrofulous, dwarfish children who do not grow (children who grow too rapidly, Cal.); scrofulous ophthalmia, opaque cornea; attacks of colic; swollen abdo- men; puffed face; general emaciation; mind and body weak; psoric or tubercular.

Memory deficient; forgetful, inattentive; child cannot be taught for it cannot remember; threatened idiocy.

Children both physically and mentally weak.

Apoplectic tendency in old people; complaints of old drunkards; headache of aged people, who are childish.

Persons subject to quinsy; take cold easily, or with every, even least cold, have an attack of tonsillitis prone to sup- puration (Psor.).

Dwarfish hysterical women and old maids, with scanty menses; deficient vital heat, always cold and chilly.

Old cachectic people; scrofulous, especially when fat; or those who suffer from gouty complaints (Fluor. ac.).

Diseases of old men; hypertrophied prostate or indurated testes.

Swelling and indurations, or incipient suppuration of glands.

Offensive foot-sweat; toes and soles get sore; throat affec- tions after checked foot-sweat (Graph., Psor., San., Sil.).

Great sensitiveness to cold (Cal., Con., Kali c., Psor.).

Aggravation

While sitting; when thinking of his disease

(Oxalic acid); lying on painful side; washing affected part.

Amelioration

When walking in the open air.

Relations

Frequently useful before or after Psor., Sulph. and Tub.

After Bar. c., Psor. will often eradicate the constitutional ten- dency to quinsy.

Incompatible: after Calc. in scrofulous affections.

Type

Quotidian; tertian; continued

Time

8 P. M. Afternoon or evening.

Chill

Without thirst.

Constant coldness, as if cold water were dashed over her (Ant. t., Rhus), relieved by warmth of stove (Ign.), but aggravated by exercise or the least draught of air. Chill begins in face and descends over the body; or shivering, beginning in the feet, with bristling of the hairs. Chills in pit of stomach (Cal.) alternate with warmth of body; cold feet, then chilliness comes on again. Sudden chill, with goose-skin, external coldness and the hair standing on end. Icy coldness of the feet from afternoon till evening; after lying down, heat in the whole body. Alternate chilliness and heat the whole night. Chill generally one (left) sided. Chill alternating with heat; evening and night. Horripilation.

Heat

Without thirst. Skin hot and dry; heat at night and anxiety. She cannot lie upon the left side on account of violent palpitation, with a feeling of soreness in the heart, and great anxiety. Dry heat the whole night, with sleeplessness; if she puts her hands out from under the cover of the bed, she feels cold, chilly and thirsty (feels cold, Hep.); next day, violent thirst, drinks whole glasses of water. Frequent flushes of heat during the day; night attacks, with great anxiety and restlessness. Heat and redness, frequently of one cheek, with coldness of the other. Very sensitive to cold air, or to change of temperature (Cal., Hep.). Coldness of single parts.

Sweat

Exhausting night-sweat; anxious sweat. Sweat profuse, of the left side; offensive of one (the left) side; returning every other evening (Ant. c.); < by eating, < in the presence of strangers. Sweat for several nights, after midnight. No thirst.

Tongue

Very thick; white, fuzzy coating. Too weak to chew; too lazy to eat. Hungry, but cannot eat; sleepy, but cannot sleep. While at meals sudden disgust for food.

Apyrexia

Excessive languor of all the limbs; prostration and inability to support one's self on the limbs. Constantly weak and weary, wishes to lean on something, to sit or lie down, and still feels weak and weary.

In fevers as sequellæ of scarlet fever or diphtheria; fevers occurring in young persons or old people of a psoric diathesis.

Analysis

Extremely sensitive to cold air in every stage of the paroxysm.

Chilly from uncovering any part of body.

The constitutional cachexia of the patient.