Calcarea Phosphorica calc-p.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

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Region

NUTRITION: BONES (SUTURES. PERIOSTEUM. Cartilage.). GLANDS. Nerves. ABDOMEN. Vertex. Chest.

Worse

Exposure to: Weather changes. Drafts. Cold, wet. Melting snows. East wind. DENTITION. Mental exertion. Loss of fluids. Puberty. Fruits. Cider.

Better

Lying down.

General

Delicate, erethistic, tall or scrawny children; with dirty, brownish skins. Soft, thin bones. Malassimilation. Scrofula. Rickets. Spots; cold or sore, vertex, eye-balls, tip of nose, or fingers, etc. Crawling, numb, cold limbs. Pains shift. Arthritis. Rheumatism. Albuminous discharges, leucorrhœa, etc. Anæmia; as a sequel.

Particulars

Peevish, restless and fretful. Idiotismus versatilis. Headache; in occipital protuberances; down spine; > cool bathing or sneezing; of school children. As of ice in occiput. Thin skull bones. Open fontanelles. Hydrocephalus. Teeth; late; soft; decay easily. Tonsils, large; mycosis (Kali-m.). Adenoids. Throat aches; feels hollow. Craves raw, salt, piquant foods or bacon. Weak digestion: every bite hurts the stomach. Persistently vomits milk. FLABBY, SUNKEN ABDOMEN; pains, then burning leucorrhœal flow. Festering navel. Diarrhœic tendency. Stools foul, hot; lienteric; spluttering and watery; < fruits. Fistula; alternating with chest symptoms. Addison's disease. School girl's headache. Abnormal cravings. Tumor in left mamma. Menses early, scanty; every two weeks. Crawling in genitals. Exalted sexual instinct. Eruptions, < during menses. Uterus heavy; weak or aching. Child loses its breath on being lifted up (Bor.). Cough, > lying. Cavernous phthisis; with night sweats. Neck or chest pains from drafts. Weak, thin neck; the head bobs about. Sore fingertips. As of a splinter under nails. Weak through hips. Thin, brittle bones. Pain, burning, along sutures or edges of nails. Slow ossification; non-union. Swollen glands. Pott's or hip-joint disease. Easily chilled; during pains. Sickly sweat; < head and throat; at night. Cold limbs with digestive trouble. Chills up back, but heats down back.

Related

Follows: Fer-p. Related: Carb-a. Chin. Nat-m. Rut.

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

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Keynote

For persons of anaemic and dark complexioned, dark hair and eyes; thin spare subjects, instead of fat. During first and second dentition of scrofulous children; diarrhoea and great flatulence. Children: emaciated, unable to stand; slow in learning to walk (Cal., Sil.); sunken, flabby abdomen. Oozing of bloody fluid from naval of infants (of urine, Hyos.). Rachitis; cranial bones thin and brittle; fontanelles and sutures remain open so long, or close and reopen; delayed or complicated teething. Spine weak, disposed to curvatures, especially to the left, unable to support body, neck weak, unable to support head (Abrot.). Girls at puberty, tall, growing rapidly, tendency of bone to soften or spine to curve (Ther.). At puberty; acne in anaemic girls with vertex headache and flatulent dyspepsia, > by eating. Ailments from grief, disappointed love (Aur., Ign., Phos. ac.). Feels complaints more when thinking about them (Helon., Ox. ac.). Involuntary sighing (Ign.). Non-union of bones; promotes callous (Symph.). Rheumatism of cold weather; getting well in spring and returning in autumn. Headache of school-girls (Nat. m., Psor.); diarrhoea. At every attempt to eat, colic pains in abdomen. Fistula in ano, alternating with chest symptoms (Berb.); lack of animal heat; cold sweat and general coldness of body.

Relations

Complementary: Ruta. Similar: to Carbo an., Cal. fluor., Calc., Fluor. ac., Kali phos.; to Psor., in debility remaining after acute diseases; to Sil., but sweat of head is wanting. Acts best: before Iod., Psor., Sanic., Sulph.; after Ars., Iod., Tub.

Aggravation

Exposure to damp, cold, changeable weather; east winds; melting snow; mental exertion.

Amelioration

In summer; warm, dry atmosphere.

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General

A subject for this remedy does not present so clear and white a complexion as is called for by Calc. carb. The appearance of the patient is more of a dirty white or brownish color.

Mental

Mental anxiety, with all the troubles. Desire to change the position often. Is often useful in cases of disappointed love.

Children

Fontanelles remain open a long time. Very soft thin skulls, so that they almost crack like paper when pressed upon. Can't hold the head up, nurse is obliged to support it. Troubles during teething; slow dentition with cold tumors and emaciation; cough and much rattling in the chest. Oozing from the bloody navel. Children don't learn to walk; flabby, emaciated; great desire to nurse all the time.

Head

Burning heat on top of, which runs down to the toes. Headache of school-girls, with diarrhœa. Black itching scurfs on top of; scrofulous ulcers on the head.

Eyes

Can't use the eyes by gas-light; cataract; amaurosis; ulcers on the cornea.

Stools and Anus

Hæmorrhoids oozing a watery fluid all the time. Fistula ani alternating with chest symptoms--as the fistula is worse at one time, the chest troubles grow better, and vice versa. Diarrhœa with much flatulency.

Sexual

Male: Swelling of the testicles. Itching of the scrotum with swelling and soreness.Female: Uterine displacements aggravated by the passage of urine or stool; worse during the catamenia. As the menstrual flux becomes less and less, the leucorrhœa increases more and more, looking like the white of an egg. Spoiled milk of the mother (is salt and bluish), and the child won't take it.

Generalities

Large pedunculated polypi; copper-colored face, full of pimples; tongue swollen; sore, aching throat, worse when swallowing; burning in the epigastrium after belching; diabetes where the lungs are implicated; rheumatism which gets well in summer, and becomes bad again in cold weather; curvature of the spine to the left; lumbar vertebræ bend to the left; spina bifida; hard bluish lumps in the axillary space; coxalgia; the bone may be partially destroyed; fistulous ulcers on the foot joint; ulcers on the maleolus; swelling of the condyles. In any broken bones, where they fail to heal.

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Red line symptom

Delayed closure or reopening of fontanelles. Retarded dentition, especially in second dentition. With every attempt to eat has aching in bowels. Heartburn and other gastric symptoms one or two hours after dinner. Sacro-iliac symphis is sore, as if separated or broken. Often a children's medicine, but oftener suitable for the young while growing, particularly girls at or near puberty.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

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Common name

Phosphate of Lime

General

One of the most important tissue remedies, and while it has many symptoms in common with Calcarea carb, there are some differences and characteristic features of its own. It is especially indicated in tardy dentition and troubles incident to that period, bone disease non-union of fractured bones, and the anæmias after acute diseases and chronic wasting diseases. Anæmic children who are peevish, flabby, have cold extremities and feeble digestion. It has a special affinity where bones form sutures or symphyses, and all its symptoms are worse from any change of weather. Numbness and crawling are characteristic sensations, and tendency to perspiration and glandular enlargement are symptoms it shares with the carbonate. Scrofulosis, chlorosis and phthisis.

Mind

Peevish, forgetful; after grief and vexation (Ignat; Phos ac). Always wants to go somewhere.

Head

Headache, worse near the region of sutures, from change of weather, of school children about puberty. Fontanelles remain open too long. Cranial bones soft and thin. Defective hearing. Headache, with abdominal flatulence. Head hot, with smarting of roots of hair.

Eyes

Diffused opacity in cornea following abscess.

Mouth

Swollen tonsils; cannot open mouth without pain. Complaints during teething; teeth develop slowly; rapid decay of teeth. Adenoid growths.

Stomach

Infant wants to nurse all the time and vomits easily. Craving for bacon, ham, salted or smoked meats. Much flatulence. Great hunger with thirst flatulence temporarily relieved by sour eructations. Heartburn. Easy vomiting in children.

Abdomen

At every attempt to eat, colicky pain in abdomen. Sunken and flabby. Colic, soreness and burning around navel.

Stool

Bleeding after hard stool. Diarrhœa from juicy fruits or cider; during dentition. Green, slimy, hot, sputtering, undigested, with fetid flatus. Fistula in ano, alternating with chest symptoms.

Urine

Increased, with sensation of weakness. Pain in region of kidneys when lifting or blowing the nose.

Female

Menses too early, excessive, and bright in girls. If late, blood is dark; sometimes, first bright, then dark, with violent backache. During lactation with sexual excitement. Nymphomania, with aching, pressing, or weakness in uterine region (Plat). After prolonged nursing. Leucorrhœa, like white of egg. Worse morning. Child refuses breast; milk tastes salty. Prolapsus in debilitated persons.

Respiratory

Involuntary sighing. Chest sore. Suffocative cough; better lying down. Hoarseness. Pain through lower left lung.

Neck and Back

Rheumatic pain from draught of air, with stiffness and dullness of head. Soreness in sacro-iliac symphysis, as if broken (Aesc hip).

Extremities

Stiffness and pain, with cold, numb feeling, worse any change of weather. Crawling and coldness. Buttocks, back and limbs asleep. Pains in joints and bones. Weary when going upstairs.

Relationship

Complementary: Ruta; Hepar.

Compare: Calcar hypophosphorosa (is to be preferred when it seems necessary to furnish the organism with liberal doses of phosphorus in consequence of continued abscesses having reduced the vitality. Give first and second decimal trits. Loss of appetite, rapid debility, night sweats; Acne pustulosa.--Pallor of skin, habitually cold extremities. Phthisis-diarrhœa and cough; acute pains in chest. Mesenteric tuberculosis. Bleeding from lungs; angina pectoris; asthma; affection of arteries. Veins stand out like whipcords. Attacks of pain occurring two hours after meals (relieved by a cup of milk or light food). Cheiranthus (effects of cutting wisdom teeth). Calcarea renalis-Lapis renalis--(arthritic nodosities. Rigg's disease; lessens tendency to accumulation of tartar on teeth; gravel and renal calculi). Conchilion.--Meter perlarum.--Mother of pearl (Osteitis.--Has a wide range of action in bone affections, especially when the growing ends are affected. Petechiæ). Silica; Psorin; Sulph.

Modalities

Worse, exposure to damp, cold weather, melting snow. Better, in summer; warm, dry atmosphere.

Dose

First to third trituration. Higher potencies often more effective.

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Tardy closing or re-opening fontanelles in slim, emaciated children, with sweaty heads.

Diarrhœa or entero-colitis; stool passes with much flatulence and spluttering noise.

Rheumatic troubles which are < in fall or spring, when the air is full of melting snow.

When on the subject of Calcarea we may as well notice this other combination.

The Phosphorus element in this preparation seems to change the temperament, for while it retains its wonderful remedial power over tardy bone development it acts best in spare subjects instead of fat. So that if we find a sickly child with fontanelles remaining open too long or re-opening after once closed, the child being spare and anæmic, we think of this remedy.

We would also think of Silicea in one of these poor subjects, but in the Calcarea phos. the sweaty head is not a prominent symptom, while with Silicea it is markedly so. Calcarea phos.

also has a very peculiar desire, the little patient instead of wanting eggs wants "ham rind," a very queer symptom, but a genuine one. (Magnesia carb. craves meat in scrofulous children.) Diarrhœa is very prominent, and the stools are green and "spluttering;" that is the flatulence (of which there is much) with the stool makes a loud spluttering noise when the stool passes. I have made some very fine cures in such cases where there seemed little hope for the child and hydrocephaloid seemed impending. The little patients were shrunken, emaciated and very anæmic. Marasmus.

(Calcarea phos. is an excellent remedy in rheumatic troubles < spring and fall, especially when the air is cold and damp from melting snow.)

Calcarea phos. is an excellent remedy for broken bones where the bones refuse to knit (Also Symphytum.)

I have found Calcarea phos. very useful in the headaches of anæmic school girls. Here we sometimes have to choose between it and Natrum mur.

Feels complaints more when thinking of them (Oxalic acid, Helonias).

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

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General

Phosphate of Lime. Tricalcic Phosphate. Ca 3 2 PO 4 . A mixture of the basic and other phosphates of lime, made by dropping dilute phosphoric acid into lime water. Trituration.

Clinical

Anæmia. Ankles, weak. Back, weakness of . Bones, affections of. Brain-fag . Bright's disease. Cholera infantum. Chorea. Consumption . Cretinism. Debility. Dentition . Diabetes. Dyspepsia. Emissions . Enuresis. Epilepsy. Erotomania. Face, boils on. Fistula. Fracture . Gleet. Gonorrhœa. Headaches. Hernia. Hydrocele. Hygroma. Joints, affections of . Leucorrhœa. Lumbago. Nymphomania. Phosphaturia. Rheumatism. Rickets. Self-abuse. Spermatorrhœa. Spina bifida . Stiff-neck. Strabismus. Testicles, swollen. Throat, sore. Tobacco habit. Tonsils, enlarged . Uterus, prolapsus of; polypus of. Yawning.

Characteristics

Calc. Phos ., whilst exhibiting strong points of resemblance with Calc. carb ., has nevertheless a very distinct individuality. It has been proved and tested clinically, and, having been adopted by Schüssler as his leading "antisporic," a number of valuable indications have been added by him and his followers. The Calc. phos . patient is generally emaciated instead of fat like the typical Calc. carb . child. The Calc. ph . patient is less chalky-white and more dirty-white or brownish than the Calc. c . patient. Both have large abdomens, but that of the Calc. Phos . patient is flabby. Calc. c , has craving for eggs; Calc. Phos . for salt or smoked meats. "Craving for fat bacon" in children is a well-verified characteristic of Calc. phos . Calc. ph . has cured dyspepsia, pain > for a short time by raising wind, when fasting the pain goes to the spine, feeling as if one ought to raise wind and could not. Dyspepsia with indescribable distress in region of stomach, only temporarily > by eating. The stools of Calc. phos . are green and slimy, or hot and watery with fetid flatus; of Calc. carb ., sometimes green, generally watery, white, and mixed with curds. Calc. carb . has an open anterior fontanelle; Calc. Phos . has both open, especially the posterior. The skull is thin and soft, almost cracks, like paper when pressed upon.

The mental state of Calc. ph . is one of weakness: weak memory; inability for mental exertion. Hence it is appropriate in effects of mental strain, such as school headaches in children, weak-minded children. In this it is like Nat. m . A schoolboy to whom I was giving Calc. ph . developed these new symptoms: "Tongue thickly coated white, taste pasty; felt absolutely silly; taking coffee whilst playing a game, he put the sugar on the draught-board instead of into the cup, and didn't know he had done anything foolish." Peevish and fretful. Wants to be at home, and when at home wants to go out; goes from place to place. Complaints are < when thinking of them. The sexual organs are the centre of many symptoms. Nymphomania; all organs in erection with irresistible desire, particularly before catamenia. Voluptuous feeling, as if all the parts were filled with blood; pulses in all the parts with increased desire; after urination. Many of the uterine symptoms are like those of Sepia . There is a weak, sinking sensation in the hypogastrium, and sinking, empty feeling in epigastrium; prolapsus < during stool or micturition. Aching in uterus. Cutting through to sacrum. Cream-like leucorrhœa. Burning in vagina with pain on both sides of bladder and uterus; burning like fire up into chest. Flushes of heat and faintness; sweats easily. But the menses are profuse, and the patient is weak and consumptive. She has partial profuse sweats, but less profuse than those of Sepia . Every exposure increases the rheumatic pains of Calc. ph . and the uterine distress. Defective bone growth; bones thin and brittle. It is useful in cases of fistula; and when fistula has been operated on and symptoms have appeared elsewhere; fistula alternating with chest symptoms. Enlargement of tonsils, acute and chronic. Short breath. Involuntary sighing. Contraction of chest and difficult breathing; evening till 10 p.m., > lying down, < getting up. Constant stretching and yawning. Crying out in sleep. Cannot get awake in morning. Grauvogl considered it the most important remedy in chronic hydrocephalus, and he very properly gave it as a prenatal remedy during pregnancy to women who had previously borne hydrocephalic children. The chills of Calc. ph . strike upward. Hering gives: "The chills run up the back; terrible muscular jerks in body, which almost throw him out of his chair."

Calc. Phos . corresponds to defective nutrition, whether of childhood, puberty, or of old age. Predisposition to glandular and bone diseases. Slow development of teeth. Spinal curvature. Slow walking; neck too thin and weak to support head. Rickets. Diabetes when the lungs are affected. Motion < and rest > most symptoms. < When thinking of his symptoms. A slight draught causes rheumatic pains; every cold causes pains in joints and sutures. Changes of weather, especially when the snow melts, or in east winds < . Damp, rainy, cold weather < . It is suited to scrofulous, gouty constitutions.

Relations

Its nearest analogue is Carb. an. (which contains Calc. phos.). Follows well: Ars., Chi., Iod., Merc. Is followed well by: Sulph. Complementary: Ruta. Compare: In bone affections and fistula, Berb., Calc., Calc. fl., Fluor. ac., Ruta, Sil., Sul.; in joint affections, Berb., Kali ph., Nat. m.; in caries of teeth, Fluor. ac., Mag. ph., Sil.; in epilepsy, Calc., Fer. ph., Kali m., Kali ph., Sil.; in diabetes, Kali ph., Nat. ph.; in tabes, Ars., Iod., Merc.; hæmorrhoids, Fer. ph.; worms, Nat. ph.; in debility after acute disease; chest affections > by lying down, Pso.; in peevishness and fretfulness of children, Cham. School headaches; housemaid's knee, Nat. m.; in tonsillitis; weak-minded children, Bar. c.; chest affections after operation; in fistula, Berb.; uterine affections, Sep. (but in Calc. ph. the menses are more profuse; there is more sexual excitement; the patient is apt to be weak, emaciated, and consumptive); osteitis of diaphyses, Conchiolinum; in fractures, &c., Symphytum; < from motion, Bry.; < from wet, Dul., Sil., Sul., Caus., Rhus.

Causation

Over-growth. Lifting. Ascending. Over-study. Sexual excesses. Sexual irregularities. Grief. Disappointed love. Unpleasant news. Operation for fistula. Getting wet.

Mind

Great depression; slow comprehension; cretinism. ─ Children are peevish and fretful; difficulty in performing intellectual operations.

Head

Large open fontanelles. ─ Delayed closure or re-opening of fontanelles. ─ Headache < from change of weather extending from forehead to nose; from temples to jaws; with some rheumatic feeling from collar-bone to wrists. ─ Vertigo, with nausea. ─ Head compressed, heavy, and painful, on waking in the morning. ─ Painful sensation of fulness in the head, as if the brain were pressed against the cranium, < by movement and by change of position, > by lying still. ─ Headache with craving for tobacco smoke, which > . ─ During the headache, face and head hot with indolence and ill-humour. ─ The headache is < in the open air, or on stooping. ─ Headache on vertex, behind ears, with drawing in muscles of neck to nape and occiput. ─ Headache, with flatulency in the abdomen. ─ Headache of school-girls with diarrhœa. ─ Crawling sensations run over top of head as if ice were lying on upper part of occiput; the head is hot with smarting of the roots of the hair. ─ Skull soft; crackling noise like paper when pressed, mostly in occiput. ─ Itching in the scalp every evening.

Eyes

Sensation in the eye as if something in it, renewed if others talk about it. ─ Cannot read; light hurts, esp. candle or gaslight. ─ Cataract; amaurosis; ulcers on the cornea. ─ Squinting. ─ Lachrymation; most with yawning. ─ Pain in the eyes and nose, as if a foreign body were introduced into them.

Ears

Singing or other noises in the ears. ─ Inner and outer ear red, sore itching. ─ External ear swells suddenly and appears as if it would burst with eczema. ─ Excoriating discharge from ears.

Nose

Coryza: fluent in cold room; stopped in warm air and out of doors. ─ Swollen nose with sore nostrils in scrofulous children. ─ Large pedunculated polypi. ─ Streaks of blood, nose-bleed in afternoon. ─ Frequent sneezing, with flow of mucus from the nose, and salivation. ─ Blood follows when the nose is blown.

Face

Pain esp. in upper jawbone from r. to l.; extends from other parts to face or from face to other parts. ─ Coppery face full of pimples. ─ (Warts on mouth). ─ Acne in the face; red pimples, filled with a yellowish pus, with shooting pains on being touched. ─ Swollen upper lip; painful, hard and burning.

Teeth

Teeth sensitive to chewing. ─ Pain in molars. ─ Tearing, boring pain at night; < from warm or cold things. ─ Slow dentition, with cold tumours and emaciation. ─ Too rapid decay. ─ Convulsions without fever during dentition.

Mouth

Tongue: swollen, numb, and stiff. ─ Tip of tongue sore, burning, little blisters on it. ─ Tongue white furred at root, most in morning. ─ Accumulation of acid saliva in the mouth. ─ Insipid disgusting taste. ─ Bitter taste in the morning with headache.

Throat

Sore aching (on waking in morning) < by swallowing. ─ Sensation of contraction in throat. ─ When swallowing, pain in tongue, fauces, pharynx, chest, and pit of stomach. ─ Chronic swelling of tonsils.

Appetite

Unusual hunger 4 p.m. ─ Infant wants to nurse all the time. ─ Craves fat bacon salt meats. ─ Desire for tobacco smoke; smoking > headache. ─ Complete loss of appetite before and during catamenia. ─ Colic and diarrhœa from ice creams; juicy fruit or cider; every attempt to eat; drinking cold water (colic or diarrhœa).

Stomach

Nausea, with vertigo, perplexity of head, and confusion of ideas. ─ After taking coffee, nausea, pyrosis, head confused and painful, and excessive ill-humour. ─ Heartburn and water-brash. ─ Sour rising. ─ Acute pains in the stomach, with great weakness, headache, and diarrhœa; the least morsel that is eaten renews the pains in the stomach. ─ After belching, a burning in epigastrium. ─ Empty, sinking sensation (at the epigastrium); 7 p.m. ─ Persistent vomiting of milk, whether of breast or other. ─ Vomiting from hawking phlegm. ─ Easy vomiting in children.

Abdomen

Aching soreness and pain round navel; > after fetid flatus passes off. ─ Oozing of bloody fluid from navel of infants. ─ Violent colic with inflation of abdomen, and great accumulation of flatulency, or with headache. ─ Difficult escape of wind, without mitigation of suffering. ─ Burning in abdomen. ─ Aching soreness, cutting, drawing in l. groin, later in r. ─ Burning aching in groins. ─ Abdominal weakness in anæmic patients.

Stool and Anus

Evacuations with much flatulency. ─ Stools in which there were many small white points or flakes, like pus, scarcely perceptible. ─ Offensive pus with stools. ─ Daily watery, very hot stools. ─ Stools green and loose, sometimes slimy. ─ Diarrhœa, very fetid. ─ Offensive flatus. ─ Cutting, pinching, sharp colic, followed by diarrhœa. ─ Diarrhœa from juicy fruit or cider; from vexation. ─ Diarrhœa of dentition. ─ Hard stools, with mental depression. ─ Hard stools with much blood. ─ After stool, buzzing in ears; weak feeling in male sexual organs. ─ Bleeding after stool; protruding piles, aching, itching, sore; oozing of a yellow fluid and bleeding. ─ Itching in anus; most in evening. ─ Single stitches in rectum towards anus, or shooting in anus. ─ Sore feeling in anus, < one side, with shaking, burning, throbbing. ─ Fistula in ano, alternating with chest symptoms. ─ Fistula; in persons who have pains in joints with every spell of cold, stormy weather. ─ Fissures. ─ Hæmorrhoids oozing a watery fluid all the time.

Urinary Organs

In region of kidneys violent pain when lifting, or blowing nose. ─ Frequent micturition. ─ Urine passed in large quantities with sensation of weakness. ─ Urine deep-coloured and sometimes hot. ─ After evacuation of fæces and emission of urine, the genital parts feel, as it were, fatigued. ─ Cutting in urethra before and after urinating; burning during. ─ Enuresis. ─ Phosphatic urine (Bright's disease).

Male Sexual Organs

Increase of sexual desire in the morning, with unusual enjoyment in coition. ─ Nocturnal emissions. ─ Erections while riding in a carriage, without desire. ─ Shooting through the perineum into the penis. ─ Swelling of testicles. ─ Scrotum: itching; sweating; sore; oozing a fluid. ─ Hydrocele. ─ Chronic gonorrhœa in anæmic subjects.

Female Sexual Organs

Nymphomania; esp. before catamenia. ─ Aching in uterus; weakness and distress in uterine region; < during defecation and micturition; uterine displacement. ─ Pressure upward over mons veneris, throbbing. ─ Voluptuous feeling as if the parts were filling up with blood; feels pulse in all the parts, with increased sexual desire. ─ Prolapse. ─ Polypus. ─ Menses: too early, light, or dark (esp. with rheumatic patients); labour-like pains. ─ Menses too early, blood bright, with girls; too late; blood dark, or first bright, then dark, in women. ─ Leucorrhœa, like white of egg, day and night; < morning after rising; of sweetish odour; increased whites with a stool of bad odour. ─ Burning, pain, swelling of vagina and external parts. ─ Pains in navel; sacrum; symphysis pubis; mammæ (sore and burning; nipples aching, sore) during pregnancy. ─ Child refuses breast, milk has a saltish taste.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness; burning in throat; constant hawking and hemming to clear voice when talking. ─ Cough; tickling; with dryness of throat and hoarseness; with yellow expectoration, < morning; with stitches in chest. ─ Cough during difficult dentition. ─ Breathing frequent, short, difficult. ─ With inhalation; shooting in l. breast and r. temple; sudden jerking pain in back. ─ Involuntary sighing.

Chest

Contraction of chest, and difficult breathing, evening till 10 p.m.; > lying down; < when getting up. ─ Obstinate pain through lower l. lung and l. hypochondrium (uterine disease). ─ Burning sensation in chest from below up into throat. ─ Sharp pain like an instrument through end of sternum. ─ Cracking in sternum.

Heart

Sharp cutting pain, shooting in heart region interrupting breathing. ─ Dropsy from heart disease.

Neck and Back

Rheumatic pain and stiffness of neck with dulness of head; from slight draught of air. ─ Cramp-like pain in neck first one side then the other (r. to l.). ─ Throbbing or jerking pains below scapula. ─ Violent pain in region of back when making the least effort. ─ Backache and uterine pains. ─ Sharp pains in sacrum and coccyx. ─ Soreness as if separate in sacro-iliac synchondrosis. ─ Curvature of the spine to the left; lumbar vertebræ bend to the left; spina bifida.

Limbs

Aching in all the limbs with weariness. ─ Pains flying about, in all parts of rump and limbs after getting wet in rain. ─ Extensors more affected than flexors.

Upper Limbs

Rheumatic pains in shoulder and arm, also with swelling of the diseased part and febrile heat. ─ Ulcerative pain esp. in roots of finger nails of r. hand; and in middle finger. ─ Gouty nodosities. ─ Soreness, torpor, and paralysis of the (l.) arm. ─ Paralysis of the joints of the hand and of the fingers, esp. in the thumbs, sometimes from a chill.

Lower Limbs

Buttocks and back "asleep," with a sensation of uneasiness. ─ Lower limbs fall asleep; restless; anxious feeling; has to move them to jump out of carriage; also at night. ─ Abdomen, sacrum, and lower limbs asleep; cannot rise from seat. ─ Cramp in calves; on a small spot inside, when walking. ─ Legs tired, weak, restless, crawling, tingling. ─ Pains above knee. ─ Pains in joints and bones, esp. shin bones.

Generalities

Large pedunculated polypi; copper-coloured face, full of pimples; tongue swollen. ─ Rheumatic pains of all kinds. ─ Pains in different parts of the body, proceeding along the muscles into the joints. ─ Rheumatism which gets well in summer and becomes bad again in cold weather. ─ The loins, knees, and thumbs are principally affected. ─ Veins swollen. ─ Burning itching over the whole body. ─ Ulcers. ─ Caries. ─ Weariness, when going upstairs; wants to sit down; hates to get up. ─ Ill-humour, and aversion to labour. ─ On every little cold she is much worse. ─ Sensations frequently on small spots. ─ Children do not learn to walk, or lose the ability; lose flesh. ─ Pains along sutures or at symphyses. ─ Flabby, shrunken, emaciated children. ─ Soreness of tendons when flexing or extending. ─ The heat of the room appears insupportable.

Sleep

Constant stretching and yawning. ─ Cannot awake in early morning. ─ Sleep, early in the evening, with frequent waking during the night. ─ Restlessness for two or three hours after midnight. ─ Frequent dreams, sometimes with reflections, dreams of dangers and fires. ─ Transient, frequent shuddering. ─ Starting from sleep as from fright.

Fever

Frequent creeping shiverings. ─ Copious night sweats, on single parts.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

Mind

A lack of definiteness or total loss of memory.
Forgetfulness, forgets what he has done a short while ago.
Writes wrong words, or same words twice.
Dulness : with every headache ; < from bodily exertion ; > from cold washing ; from mental occupation.
Obtuse intellect ; difficulty in performing intellectual operations ; cannot clearly distinguish.
Stupidity ; indifference ; cretinism.
Likes to be alone.
She wishes to be at home, and, when at home, to go out ; goes from place to place.
Involuntary sighing.
Often screaming and grasping with hands ; cold sweat in face, body cold ; children with open fontanelles.
Does not want to do what he has to do.
Feels as if she had been frightened.
Anxiousness with other complaints.
Anxiety of children : in pit of stomach ; with bellyache ; with chest complaints ; with palpitation.
Peevish and fretful children. θ Cholera infantum.
Inclined to indignation and anger.
Feel complaints more when thinking about them.
Unpleasant news brings him beside himself ; sweat breaks out.
Ailments from grief, disappointed love.
After vexation depressed ; cannot work, walks as if lame ; looseness of bowels.

Sensorium

Feeling of fulness and confusion, or a dulness accompanying headache.
Vertigo : on motion ; when getting up, or rising from sitting ; when walking in open air ; < in windy weather ; with costiveness of old people ; dull headache, nausea, complaints of eyes, neck, aching limbs ; with whites
before catamenia.
Old people stagger when getting up from sitting.

Inner head

Fulness and pressure in head, < from pressure of hat.
Pressure above eyes and towards them.
Headache over forehead, with tearing pains in arms and hands, most in wrists and right middle finger.
Headache on vertex and behind ears, with a drawing in muscles of neck, to nape and occiput.
Heat in head ; burning on top, running down to toes.
Headache, throbbing through both sides, most after quick motion.
Aching, drawing pains around lateral protuberances of occiput.
Dulness with every headache ; > from cold washing and mental occupation ; < from bodily exertion.
Headache : with gastric symptoms, with uterine complaints, or following other sensations ; in peevish and fretful children ; < from change of weather, extending from forehead to nose, or from temples to jaw, with some rheumatic feelings from clavicles to wrists ;
< when thinking about it, and in morning ; > from cold washing and mental occupation.
Headache of schoolgirls, with diarrhœa.
Rheumatic headache ; < at night.
Hyperemia of brain.
Acute and chronic hydrocephalus and hydrocephaloid. θ Cholera infantum.
Hydrocephalus congenitus.
Sensation as if brain was pressed against skull. θ Fungus of cranium.
Meningitis involving bony structure of spine.
Idiopathic fungus of dura mater.
Stupid look, taking no interest in anything, keeps eyes shut, always < in wane of day, great inclination for salt meat or potatoes ; fontanelles too much open. θ Incipient
hydrocephalus.
Chronic hydrocephalus.
Brain fag.

Outer head

Headache ; head feels and is cold to touch.
Sore pain, drawing, rending, tearing in bones of skull, most along sutures of skull, particularly between frontal and parietal bones, or around temporal bones.
Crawls run over top of head ; as if ice was lying on upper occiput.
Head is hot, with smarting of roots of hair.
Affections of bony structure of skull.
Skull very soft and thin, crackling like paper when pressed upon. θ Cholera infantum.
Fontanelles remain open too long, or close and reopen.
Nonunion of bones in fracture of skull, particularly in the aged.
Depression on occipital bone. θ Sanguineous occipital tumor.
(OBS :) Cranio tabes.
Encephalocele.
Cannot hold bead up ; moves it from place to place ; head totters.
Tied feeling or tension in scalp of forehead.
Itching black scurfs ; poor crop of hair, or losing hair.
Scalp sore, hurts ; creeping, numbness, or cold crawls, coldness on occiput.
Impetigo on scalp.
Scrofulous ulcers on top of head.

Sight and eyes

Light, particularly candle or gaslight, hurts eyes.
Letters change into little black points, or small round grey spots, or as if a little bird was flying from left to right.
Shimmering, glittering, fiery circles ; dreams of fire.
Veil over eyes ; eyes misty. θ Amaurosis and cataract.
Eyeballs hurt ; aching as if beaten.
Cool feeling towards or back of eyes.
Sensation in eye, as if something was in it ; renewed if others talk about it.
Squinting distortion of eyeballs, as if it was from pressure ; eyeballs seem distended, they protrude somewhat.
Eyes red, capillary vessels visible in streaks from corners to cornea.
Conjunctivitis. θ Dentition.
Ulcers and spots on cornea.
Left eye much inflamed, cornea hazy, particularly upper portion, and traversed by red vessels ; photophobia. θ Keratitis after variola.
Eyes water, most with gaping.
Furuncle between right eyebrow and upper lid, eye inflamed, lids falling or closed, most in morning.
Hot feeling in lids.
Sweat of brows and lids.
(OBS :) Spasm of eyelids.

Hearing and ears

Singing and other noises, most in r. ear.
Difficult hearing.
Earache, tearing, shooting, jerking pain ; alternating or associated with rheumatic complaints.
Excoriating discharge from ears.
Heat of inner and outer ear.
Burning itching of outer ear in warm room.
Outer ears cold ; cold and aching, or hot and aching.
Cold feeling or coldness of ears, followed by throbbing, heat and hard hearing.
Ears cold ; point of nose cold.
Pimples on ears.
Soreness in and around ears.
Inner and outer ear swollen, red, sore, itching and hot.
Aching, pressing, tearing, rending in and around ears ; most behind or below.
Burning pain on a small spot over right ear, highly sensitive to slightest touch.
All bones around ears ache and hurt ; shooting outward.
Pain in processus zygomaticus.
Aching, sore pain in region of parotid glands.
Large ulcers above or around ears and in region of parotid glands.

Smell and nose

Tickling in nose and sneezing.
Streaks of blood ; nose bleeding in afternoon.
Biting stinging in front corner of left nostril, later right nostril ; sneezing and running of tears.
Sneezing and soreness on edges of alæ, fluent coryza, in forenoon.
Coryza : fluent in cold room ; stopped in warm air and out-doors.
Chronic catarrh, with scrofulous children.
(OBS :) Ozæna scrofulosa.
Large pedunculated nasal polypi.
Swollen nose with sore nostrils, small abscesses, ulcers, in scrofulous children.
Point of nose : icy cold ; itching.

Upper face

Faceache (neuralgic rheumatic) < at night.
Pain in face, particularly in upper jaw bone, from right to left ; extends from other parts to face, or from face to other parts.
Face : pale ; sallow ; yellowish ; earthy ; full of pimples.
Complexion dirty white or brownish. θ Cholera infantum.
Heat in face : in evening ; with chill or other complaints.
Cold sweat on face ; body cold.
Coppery face, full of pimples.
(In sick :) Warts on mouth.

Lower face

Swollen upper lip ; painful, hard and burning.
(In sick :) Swelling of submaxillary glands with soreness.

Teeth and gums

Teeth and Gums
Teeth sensitive to chewing.
Pain in eye and stomach teeth.
Shooting in molars ; all hollow teeth cannot bear air.
Toothache, with tearing, boring pain at night ; < from warm and cold things.
Too rapid decay of teeth.
Slowness in teething ; also in closing of fontanelles : complaints during teething.
Slow dentition, with cold tumors and emaciation.
(OBS :) Convulsions without fever during dentition.

Taste, speech, tongue

Foul taste and smell.
Flabby sweetish taste.
Disgusting taste when getting awake ; < when hawking.
Bitter taste : in morning, with headache ; particularly of wheat bread ; at setting in of catamenia.
Tip of tongue sore, burning, little blisters on it.
Tongue swollen, numb, stiff ; with pimples.
Tongue white furred at root, most in morning.

Inner mouth

A sore spot inside of right cheek.
Dryness of mouth and tongue, into choanæ ; with or without thirst.
Running of saliva with fluent coryza.

Palate and throat

Sensation of weakness or emptiness in fauces and throat.
Fauces and uvula red and swollen ; warm drink does not hurt.
Sore aching in throat ; < when swallowing.
It hurts to swallow saliva, not food.
When swallowing, pain in tongue, fauces, pharynx, chest and pit of stomach.
Dryness in throat at night.
Sore throat : with tickling cough in evening ; < after going to bed ; with fluent coryza.
Pains and burning from other parts towards throat.
Hawking up phlegm late in evening, at night and in morning, with gagging.
Diphtheria ; first to reduce fever and limit inflammation of throat.
Chronic swelling of tonsils.
Chronic enlargement of tonsils in strumous subjects.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Unusual hunger at 4 P. M.
No appetite from noon to noon, but thinking about it, she wants to eat.
Complete want of appetite before or during catamenia.
Much thirst, with dry mouth and tongue, during after-part of day.
Infants want to nurse all the time.

Eating and drinking

Eating ice-cream in evening gives him colic, and he has to vomit next morning.
Juicy fruit or cider causes diarrhœa.
At every attempt to eat, bellyache.
After breakfast belching, hawking, gagging, nausea.
With his dinner vertigo and loss of memory.
After meals, more after dinner, headache or drowsiness, weariness, itching, dull pain in stomach, with soreness when pressing on it ; heartburn and other gastric symptoms.
After supper pressure in rectum with a stool, first part hard, the last thin.
After drinking cold water, cutting in belly.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Sour belching and gulping up.
After belching, burning in epigastrium.
Heartburn one to two hours after dinner.
Nausea from smoking, or after drinking coffee.
Nausea, rising from pit of stomach when moving, > during rest, followed by headache and lassitude.
Vomiturition from hawking phlegm.
Vomiting, with trembling of hands.
Children vomit often and easily.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Empty sinking sensation at epigastrium.
Indescribable uneasiness in region of stomach.
Stomach feels expanded.
Flabbiness or a kind of relaxation of stomach. Compare 13 .
Pressure in stomach ; > when she rests.
Burning at stomach, and rising of water into mouth.
Sharp cutting or cramplike pain in stomach, with headache.
Violent pain in stomach, with great debility, headache and diarrhœa ; pain is excited by introducing least morsel of food into stomach.

Hypochondria

Hardness, soreness and pressure in right side.
Throbbing in right hypochondrium ; > after belching or passing wind.
Stitches shooting in region of liver when taking a deep breath.
Pressure and soreness in left side.
(OBS :) After liver complaints, dropsy.
Sharp pain in region of spleen.

Abdomen and loins

Empty sinking sensation around navel, or in whole belly.
Burning in epigastrium, in region of navel, in whole abdomen, rising up into chest and throat.
Aching soreness and pain around navel ; > after fetid wind passes off.
Oozing of a bloody fluid from navel of infants.
Severe pain in region of transverse colon at 3 P. M.
Pinching, shooting, stitches, running, kicking, moving in l. side of belly.
Cutting, pinching, sharp colic, followed by diarrhœa.
Bellyache > after passing wind, after stool or after leucorrhoea.
Abdominal pains, with headache, earache, hot face ; pain in groins, looseness of bowels, weary legs, crawls ; or in alternation with headache, burning in throat, uterine pains, lassitude.
Motion in belly as of something alive.
Incipient mesenteric tabes, with much diarrhœa, fetid, sometimes lienteric stools.
Abdominal wall : tingling, numb ; quivering, or aching.
Aching soreness, cutting, drawing in left groin, later in right.
Warm feeling in groins, burning, aching pain.
(OBS :) Abdominal hernia, in anemic patients.

Stools and rectum

Offensive flatus.
Juicy fruit or cider causes diarrhœa.
Diarrhœa after vexation, with headache of schoolgirls ; with flatulence ; offensive pus with stools.
Diarrhœa, with much flatulence, during dentition. θ Cholera infantum.
Daily watery, very hot stools.
Stools : green and loose, sometimes slimy, with children ; soft, passed with difficulty ; hot and watery ; white and mushy.
Stools, in which there were many small white points or flakes, like pus, scarcely perceptible.
Mornings copious soft stool ; renewed urgency directly on wiping, after which a little more was evacuated.
Very offensive diarrhœa.
Hard stool, with depression of mind ; with old people, causing vertigo and headache.
Hard stools with much blood.
After stools buzzing in ears ; weak feeling in male sexual parts.
Bleeding after stool, or with a soft stool followed by slime ; protrusion of piles.
Watery looseness day and night, with an urging for stool every 15 minutes.
Heaviness and urging with costiveness or after looseness.
(OBS :) Removes the disposition to intestinal worms in anemic or weakly patients.
Protruding piles aching, itching and sore ; oozing of a yellow fluid, and bleeding.
Single stitches in rectum towards anus, or shooting in anus.
Warmth, burning, pulsating in anus ; bearing down towards anus.
Sore feeling in anus when getting up in morning.
Itching in anus, most in evening.
Small furuncle near anus to right with much pain ; cannot sit ; has to stand or lie on left side ; discharges bloody pus and there remains a painless fistula. (Two provers.)
Fistula ani alternating with chest symptoms ; Fistula ani, in persons who have pains in joints with every spell of cold, stormy weather.
Fissures of anus, in tall slim, light complexioned children who form bone and teeth slowly.

Urinary organs

Dropsy, after kidney disease.
Violent pain in region of kidneys, when lifting, or when blowing nose.
A painful sensation in neck of bladder, like that when having the stream suddenly stopped.
Sore aching in bladder ; < after making water.
Pressing pain most or right side of bladder.
Shooting in mouth of bladder.
Violent pain in bladder and all neighboring parts (prostata) with a weak stream of water.
Cutting pains in urethra.
Frequent urging to urinate.
Frequent quantities of urine, with a sensation of weakness.
Before urinating : cutting in bladder ; pressing down ; cutting in urethra.
While urinating : drawing in female bladder upward ; burning and hardness in male urethra.
After urinating : cutting and burning in male urethra ; pressing and cutting in female bladder, deep into left ; relaxation and weakness of male organs.
In diabetes mellitus where lungs were implicated ; of very great service not only to lungs but also in diminishing quantity of urine and lowering its specific gravity.
A pressure in abdomen, with difficulty in preventing escape of urine.
(OBS :) Wetting bed, with general debility.
Dark urine ; warmer than usual and of a penetrating odor.
Diaper reddish-yellow.
Increase of urine, with flocculent sediment.
(OBS :) Bright's disease of kidneys, if indicated by concomitant symptoms.

Male sexual organs

Sexual desire increased with some ; with others decreased.
Erection painful, with burning in urethra, and a tension in penis, in evening.
Erection while riding in a carriage, without desire
(In sick :) One or two emissions three nights in succession put him completely out of humor and prostrated him.
Shooting in root of penis and bladder.
Shooting through perineum and into penis.
Itching of scrotum ; sweating ; soreness ; pimples.
Scrotum sore, oozing of a fluid.
Swelling of testicles.
(OBS :) Hydrocele.
Chronic gonorrhœa, in anemic subjects.

Female sexual organs

Nymphomania ; all organs in erection, with insatiable desire, particularly before catamenia.
Voluptuous feeling as if all female parts were filling up with blood ; she feels pulse in all parts, with increased sexual desire.
Clitoris erect after urination, with sexual desire.
Aching in uterus, in morning.
Pressing in uterus, increased sexual desire, aching in neck of bladder, prostration.
Weakness and distress in region of uterus ; < during passage of stool and urine.
Cutting pain in uterus through to sacrum.
Prolapsus < during stool, micturition or menses.
(OBS :) Prolapsus in debilitated persons.
Uterine displacement combined with rheumatic pains.
Cervix and os swollen, red and painful ; (even after maltreatment with "caustic"), shot-like bunches to digital touch ; visible under mucous surface as bright red spots. θ Uterine
disease.
Uterine polypus.
Pressing, drawing and sore feeling as if catamenia should appear ; soreness, aching, pressure in uterus and vagina ; in loins, flushes of heat ; fatigued from going up-stairs ; pain from right groin into left hip.
Less catamenia, more whites like white of eggs, day and night, < in morning, after rising, of a sweetish odor ; increased with stool, white and of a bad odor.
Menses : too early, blood bright, with girls ; too late, blood dark, or first bright, then dark with women.
Catamenial blood dark, especially with rheumatic patients.
Menses every two weeks, black and clotted.
Labor-like pains before and during catamenia.
Before catamenia : great sexual desire, followed by a copious flow ; headache three to seven days before ; griping and rumbling in bowels ; stitching pain in left side of head ; whites with sleepiness during day.
During catamenia : vertigo and throbbing in forehead ; blood rushes to head ; throbbing headache increasing after ; over os pubis pressure ; want of appetite, bellyache and diarrhœa, backache ; shooting, lower limbs heavy, weary, overfatigued, going
up-stairs feels stiff all over.
After catamenia : throbbing headache increases ; want of appetite ; backache and aching in lower limbs ; whites.
Menorrhagia : menses every two weeks, black and clotted ; before their appearance griping rumbling in bowels and leucorrhoea ; stitching pain in left side of head ; sleepiness during day.
Leucorrhoea like white of egg, day and night.
Cream-like whites pass from her in afternoon, unconsciously.
Whites for two weeks after catamenia, or from one term to another.
Leucorrhoea : increases in ratio that menses decrease ; pain and pressure in genitals ; every cold causes rheumatic pains ; acne, full of yellow pus ; dirty complexion ; mental anxiety ; fault finding ; flatulency ; hemorrhoids
oozing a watery fluid ; fistula in ano ; burning in epigastrium ; weak, sinking feeling in abdomen ; useful for young ladies who have been crossed in love.
Tearing from right side of navel, more upward than downward, with anxiety of mind ; was gone as soon as leucorrhoea appeared.
Burning in vagina, with pain on both sides of bladder or uterus ; burning like fire up into chest.
Pains from navel and other parts drawing to vagina.
Sore aching, warm feeling between external labia, stitching pain in inner labia.
Pain in vagina, with flushes and faintness.
Aching in vagina after nose-bleeding.
Swelling of external parts and vagina, when awaking.
Throbbing, stinging, tickling, sore aching or pressing in genitals, drawing upward in symphysis, downward in thighs.
Drawing pain from right to left over pubes, with discharge of some blood ; followed by earache, first left then right.
Over mons veneris a pressure upward, throbbing or other sensations.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Complained as in first period of pregnancy, a drawing aching in region of navel, extending to sacral region, < in forenoon ; heartburn up into throat, soreness in right groin, and a kicking quivering over os pubis.
Weariness in all limbs during pregnancy.
Milk changeable, from alkaline to neutral, or to acid ; watery and thin.
Mamma sore to touch, feel as if larger, as during last half of pregnancy.
Pains and burning in mamma.
Nipples aching ; sore.
Child refuses breast, milk has a saltish taste ; trying it, taste remains long in mouth.
During pregnancy : to prevent recurrence of hydrocephalus in future children.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Hoarseness and cough, day and night.
Hoarse, sore throat and hacking cough, in morning.
(OBS :) Chronic catarrh, with anemia.
(OBS :) Catarrhs in scrofulous or gouty constitution.
Burning in larynx after same feeling on back part of tongue.
Must hawk or hem to clear voice ; when they talk they constantly hem or hawk.

Respiration

Breathing more frequent, short and difficult.
With inhalation : shooting in left breast and right temple ; sudden jerking pain in back.
Short breath and cough.
Involuntary sighing.
Desire to take a deep breath, to sigh ; with it a pain in chest, shooting in liver.
Contraction of chest and difficult breathing ; evening till 10 P. M., > on lying down, < getting up.
Suffocating attacks of a male child of 6 months, after nursing, more often after crying and after being taken out of cradle ; breathing ceases, head turns backward, face blue, fighting with hands and feet ; after attacks greatly relaxed ; some days none, some days several
attacks.

Cough

Pain on a small spot, from coughing, with short breath.
Dry cough with hoarseness, soreness and dryness in throat.
Cough : with yellow expectoration, more in morning ; with fever, dryness and thirst ; from 6 A. M. to 6 P. M. ; during difficult dentition.
With cough, stitches in chest, heat on lower part of chest and upper arm.
Cough with soreness and dryness in throat in the tuberculous.
Chronic cough of consumptives, who suffer with cold extremities.
Whooping cough, in obstinate cases.

Inner chest and lungs

Burning sensation in chest, from below up into throat ; sometimes downward.
Pressing ache in chest, most below and extending upward.
Sharp pain in region of sixth rib, first on right side, later on l. fourth and fifth ribs, coming and going, takes breath away, most with a deep breath ; during day.
Shooting pain in left chest ; going through to shoulder.
Stitch in left side while breathing.
Beating in a small spot on left side.
A most obstinate pain in lower part of left lung and in left hypochondrium. θ Uterine disease.
Sharp pain like an instrument passing through end of breast bone ; during day.
Contraction of chest and difficult breathing, evening till 10 P. M. ; > lying down, < when getting up.
Dull aching in chest, with soreness to touch.
Phlegm rattling on chest, also during difficult teething.
Incipient phthisis in anemic patients.
Profuse sweat in phthisis ; cold extremities.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Sharp cutting, shooting in region of heart, interrupts breathing.
Palpitation with anxiety, followed by a trembling weakness, particularly of calves.
(OBS :) After heart disease, dropsy.
Feels beating of pulse, not frequent but quick ; while sitting, feels it in nape of neck and left chest.

Outer chest

Burning in pit of throat.
Clavicles sore, first left, then right.
Tearing, pressing and shooting in sternum.
Sore pain in sternum.
Ulcer over sternum or clavicle.
Pains where cartilages and ribs meet.
Painless gnawing with quivering, jerking and heat ; is full of fear.
A tumor like a walnut in left male mamma, hurts when pressed.

Neck and back

Over clavicle soreness and cutting ; pains in neck, soreness ; glands hurt.
Rheumatic pain and stiffness of neck, with dulness of head ; from slight draught of air.
Pain on sides of throat, aching on pressure, up to ear, or from ear to shoulder ; < when turning neck, also when swallowing.
Muscles of neck hurt up to occiput, first right then left.
Cramplike pain in neck, first one side, then the other.
Malignant tumors on neck.
Drawing in back and limbs, with gaping, stretching, bending backward ; < evening and morning, on getting awake and on moving about.
Pains and aches in and near, between and mostly below shoulder blades ; throbbing, pulsating, jerking.
Pain in back. θ Uterine disease.
Violent pain in small of back, when making least bodily effort ; sometimes obliging him to scream.
In region of kidneys violent pain, when lifting or when blowing nose ; pain in back, jerking, rending, cutting, shooting.
Abscess near lumbar vertebræ.
Numbness and lameness in sacrum.
Sharp sacral pains.
Violent stitch on a small spot between left ilium and sacrum, with slightest motion ; has to lie on same spot without moving.
Soreness in sacro-iliac symphysis, as if separated.
Pain and aching, soreness, pressure, tearing and shooting in os coccygis.
(OBS :) Crick in back, and lumbago.
Curvature of spine to left (scoliosis sinistra), lumbar vertebræ bend forward.
Spina bifida.

Upper limbs

Pain and aching in shoulders and shoulder-blades.
Sore aching, bruised pains in shoulder or down arm.
Shooting and tearing from shoulder joint along whole arm.
Soreness, burning and itching under arms.
Hard bluish lumps under arm ; oozing and scabbing after checked itch ; much relieved ; Sulphur finished cure.
Rheumatic pain in upper arm near shoulder joint ; cannot lift arm.
Lameness of arms, they "fall asleep."
Trembling in arms and hands.
Dull pain in arms, first left, then right ; from shoulder to fingers ; from clavicle down to wrist ; < from change of weather.
Sensation in elbows as if joint had been struck.
Through elbows shooting, usually first left, then right.
Cramplike pain in forearm, sore, bruised feeling ; tearing.
Pimples on inner side of forearm.
Pain in right wrist, with lameness as if beaten ; cramplike and other pain, when moving or using it.
Hands "asleep," or numb.
Pimples on back of hand and on wrist.
All bones of arms ache, particularly thumb.
In right thumb, joints as if luxated or sprained.
Pain in single fingers.
Tips of thumb and fingers sore.
Ulcerative pain in roots of finger nails of right hand, especially in middle finger.
Gouty nodosities on condyles.

Lower limbs

Tearing, shooting, drawing in hip bone.
Sacro-iliac symphysis as i separated, in walking.
Coxarthrocace, third stage ; puts an end to further destruction of bone, suppuration ceases, new bone is formed.
Shooting and stitches from hip bone up or down, most from ischium down, jerking, drawing, with a warm feeling.
Buttocks and back "asleep", with a sensation of uneasiness.
In nates a lameness as if beaten ; after a storm all kinds of pain with soreness, most from right to left, but alternating, most on right side.
On buttocks stinging in little spots, itching, burning ; sore spots oozing, scurfy.
Sharp pain in tendons on inside of thighs, more when walking.
Shooting through left thigh to knee, or down to ankle bones ; toes too thick ; heavy load in nape of neck.
Aching and soreness of thighs as if beaten, with aching in sacral bones.
Pains above bones.
Pains in knees < when walking, first left, then right.
Boring in right knee, < from stretching, most at night.
Knees pain as if sprained, sore, when walking.
Tendons in hollow of knee as if too short.
(OBS :) Chronic swelling of knee.
(OBS :) Hygroma patellæ (housemaid's knee) ; in anemic subjects.
Lower limbs, abdomen and sacrum "asleep ;" cannot get up from seat.
Legs tired, weak, restless, crawling, tingling.
Lame feeling of lower limbs, tired, heavy.
Lower feeling of lower limbs, tired, heavy.
Lower limbs "fall asleep," with a restless, anxious feeling ; has to move them, to jump out of carriage ; also at night.
Tearing in left lower leg from knee down to foot ; dry, crusty eruption covers leg.
Pain in bones, particularly shin bones.
Drawing pain in shin bones.
A pain in head of left tibia, caused by a kick, returned ; the spot got so sore that he could not bear it to be touched ; it disturbed sleep, coming on every night ; gradually an exostosis was formed and remained.
Violent pain below hollow of knee ; < when taking off boots.
Cramp in calves ; on a small spot inside, when walking.
Crampy pain in calves ; drawing, rending, shooting, warm feeling.
Rending, tearing, shooting in ankle joint.
Ulcers on malleolus dexter, edges callous, ichor putrid.
Fistulous ulcers on ankle joint.
Cramplike pains in feet, most in ankle joint.
Ankle joint feels as if dislocated.
Sore pain and aching in heel.
Caries of heel.
Stinging in middle of soles ; shooting in soles and in balls of toes.
Pains in big toe, like a cramp, or aching in region of root of nail, first right then left.
Gouty pain in big toe.
Jerking twitching of right big toe towards left.
Stinging and shooting in toes.

Limbs in general

Extensors more affected than flexors.
Feeling of lameness of flexors and sudden aching of extensors.
Pain in all joints, most left side.
Aching in limbs, with weariness.
Rheumatic pains flying about.
Every cold causes rheumatic pains in joints and in various parts of body. θ Uterine displacement.
Inflammatory rheumatism.
Pains flying about in all parts of rump and limbs after getting wet in rain.
Rheumatism, pertaining particularly to cold weather, getting well in Spring and returning next Autumn.

Rest. position. motion

Rest : nausea > ; pressure in stomach >.
Lying : on back, restless ; > on side ; > headache, pain in stomach, belly and breathing.
Sitting : stagger on getting up ; feels beating of pulse in nape of neck and left chest.
Stooping : vertigo ; rush of blood to head ; dull pain in head.
On motion : vertigo ; aching in back and lower limbs >.
Moving : < nausea.
Quick motion : throbbing headache.
Painful symptoms brought on by moderate motions of single limbs, > after lying down.
Exertion : < headache.
Pains after great exertion ; < when lying down.
Walking : vertigo ; running coryza ; cramp in calves ; sharp pains in tendons on inside of thighs ; pain in knees, first left then right.
Going up-stairs : weariness.
Rising : vertigo.

Nerves

After unpleasant news, numbness.
Stiff in bed in morning ; can hardly turn.
Disposition to stretch.
Weariness, < going up-stairs ; wants to sit down, shuns getting up.
Indisposition to work, mental or physical.
Weakness, with other symptoms.
Lower limbs, abdomen and sacrum "asleep ;" cannot get up from seat.
Languor with diarrhœa, leucorrhoea, catamenia and during pregnancy.
Child will not stand any more, and loses flesh.
Children do not learn to walk, or lose the ability.
Trembling of hands, with headache, pain in chest, bellyache.
Trembling of arms and hands, with other complaints, particularly uterine.
Trembling feeling ; with toothache and uterine pains.
Hands tremble ; she is sick, heart palpitates, fears bad news, afterwards weak.
Thumbs moved spasmodically.
Big toes twitching, little toes drawn inward.
Starting in sleep.
Restlessness ; spasmodic motion of limbs ; < when lying on back ; > lying on side.
Child : convulsive starts, lies on its back.
Stepping motion of lower limbs.
(In sick :) Violent screaming, grasping with hands in great agony towards its mother, cold sweat most in face, whole body cold.
Attacks of spasms going through body like an electric shock, so that she falls down ; they last about a minute and, except being a little weak, she felt well ; has about thirty attacks daily.
A girl, æt. 18 ; suppressed menses from bathing, followed by epileptic spasms with opisthotonos and unconsciousness.
Epileptic attacks in a young lady of 18, which had existed since she was a child six months old ; attacks occurred every three months ; spasms all clonic and on l. side, with diarrhœa and loss of consciousness ; she falls forward on the face and sleeps afterwards ;
sometimes she has a second attack the same day ; they frequently occur after eating.
(OBS :) Epilepsy ; suitable for young persons whose bodies are in progress of development, and for scrofulous subjects.
(OBS :) Rheumatism paralysis.
(OBS :) Great debility with enuresis.
Useful after weakening acute diseases (Psorin. if there are copious sweats).

Sleep

Constant stretching and yawning.
Gaping with tears in eyes.
Gaping and irresistible drowsiness all forenoon, before and at dinner.
Drowsy all day and evening.
With drowsiness gloomy mood, inability to think, headache, singing in ears, sweat in face, prostration of limbs.
Sleep disturbed, most before midnight.
Dreams : very vivid, most of late events or last readings ; of traveling.
In sleep, starting as from fright.
In bed, pains in bones or joints, etc.
Sweat on part wakens in night.
Cannot get awake in early morning.
Complaints in morning : pain in head, heart, back ; bad taste, as if she had been sick.
Children cry out in sleep.

Time

Night : headache < ; faceache < ; hawking of phlegm ; boring in knee.
Midnight : before, sleep disturbed.
Morning : headache < ; eyelids falling or closed ; bitter taste ; tongue white furred on root ; hawking of phlegm ; copious soft stool ; sore feeling in anus ; aching in uterus ; catamenia > ; hoarse, sore throat and hacking cough ;
yellow expectoration ; drawing in back and limbs ; stiff in bed ; cannot awake early ; complaints, head, heart, back ; chill after dressing ; copious night sweats, towards morning.
Forenoon : coryza ; drawing aching in region of navel ; gaping, irresistible drowsiness.
Day and evening : drowsy.
From 6 A. M. to 6 P. M. : dryness and thirst during difficult dentition.
At 3 P. M. : severe pain in region of transverse colon.
At 4 P. M. : unusual hunger.
Afternoon : nose bleeding ; cream-like whites pass unconsciously.
Evening : heat in face ; sore throat, with tickling ; hawking of phlegm ; colic ; < drawing in back and limbs ; dry heat.
Wane of day : worse ; much thirst, dry mouth and tongue.

Temperature and weather

Warm room : burning itching ; fluent coryza ; warm things < toothache.
Open air : walking in, headache, vertigo, fluent coryza ; hoarseness ; cough ; on watery days nose stopped ; carious teeth < ; chill.
A slight draught is followed by rheumatic pain in neck, stiffness and dulness in head.
Cold room : fluent coryza.
Cold liquids : toothache.
Every cold causes pains in joints and sutures.
From cold washing : headache >.
After a cold foot bath gets red, with pricking like nettles.
Change of weather : headache ; tearing in forehead to nose and temples, from occiput to vertex, with earache ; dull pains in arms, from clavicles down to wrist.
Worse in changeable weather, particularly when snow melts and in East winds.
Windy weather : vertigo <.
Day after a snowstorm, buttocks as if beaten, with lameness.
In damp, rainy, cold weather dull pain in lower limbs.

Fever

Shaking chill, out-doors.
Frequent creeping shiverings, with motion of scrotum, not like that after urinating.
Frequent crawls all over ; crawls on head.
Chill : in morning after dressing ; with cough ; with coryza ; with uterine pains.
Shivering with a hot face, with bellyache.
Cold in lower part of body, face hot.
Feels beating of pulse, not frequent but quick ; while sitting he feels it in nape of neck and left chest.
Heat runs from head down to toes.
Dry heat in evening, hot breath, beating of heart, mouth and tongue dry without thirst, gaping, stretching, etc.
Copious night sweats ; on single parts ; towards and during morning.
Sweat on parts, wakens in night.
Profuse sweat in phthisis.
(OBS :) Chronic intermittent fever, in scrofulous children.

Attacks, periodicity

Every two weeks : catamenia.

Locality and direction

Right : middle finger, tearing pains ; eyebrow, furuncle ; ear, singing ; ear, burning ; cheek, sore spot ; side, hardness, soreness and pressure ; hypochonder, throbbing ; pressing pain in bladder ; to l. groin, pressing drawing
and sore feeling, as if catamenia should appear ; tearing in navel ; soreness in groin ; temple, shooting ; sharp pain in region of sixth rib ; pain in roots of finger nails ; boring in knee.
Left : nostril, biting stinging ; side, pressure and soreness ; side of belly, pinching, shooting, stitches ; running, kicking, moving and stitching pain in head ; shooting in breast ; shooting in chest ; stitches in side while breathing ;
obstinate pain of lung and hypochondrium ; sharp pain in region of fourth and fifth ribs ; shooting though thigh to knee or down to ankle bones ; tearing in lower leg, from knee down to foot.
Left to right : earache ; clavicles sore ; dull pain in arms ; shooting through elbows ; pain in knees.
From right to left : faceache.
First one side, then the other : cramplike pain in neck.

Sensations

As if brain was pressed against skull ; as if something was in eye ; as if joint of elbow had been struck ; as if dislocated ; as if ice was lying on upper occiput ; as if female organs were filling up with blood.
Jerking : earache ; pain in back ; outer chest ; in back ; in hip bone ; in right big toe ; around shoulder blades.
Beating : in small spot on left side.
Tearing : pains in hands and arms ; in bones of skull ; earache ; in and around ears ; toothache ; from right side of navel ; in sternum ; in os coccygis ; in hip bone ; in l. lower leg ; ankle joint ; < at night and in bad
weather ; in teeth.
Rending : in bones of skull ; in and around ears ; pain from knee to foot ; in back ; in ankle joint ; in calves.
Sharp : cutting in stomach ; pain in region of spleen ; colic ; pain through end of breast bone ; sacral pains ; in region of sixth rib ; in tendons of thighs.
Cutting : colic ; left groin ; pains in urethra ; in bladder ; pain in uterus ; region of heart ; over clavicle ; in back ; in belly.
Stitches : left side of head ; region of liver ; left side of belly ; in anus ; pain in inner labia ; in chest, left side ; on a small spot between left ilium and sacrum ; in hip bone ; in rectum.
Shooting : through left thigh to knee ; ankle joint ; in soles and balls of toes ; in toes ; in sternum ; in os coccygis ; along whole arm ; through elbows ; in hip bone ; earache ; around bones of ears ; in molars ; region
of liver ; l. hyponchondrium ; left side of belly ; in anus ; in mouth of bladder ; in root of penis and bladder ; perineum ; left breast and right temple ; in liver ; pain in left chest ; in region of heart ; in molars ; in calves.
Stinging : in nostrils ; in genitals ; on buttocks ; in middle of soles ; in toes.
Boring : toothache ; in right knee ; < at night and in bad weather.
Ulcerative pain : in roots of finger nails.
Drawing : pains around lateral protuberances of occiput ; in bones of skull ; in left groin ; in muscles of neck ; in female bladder upward ; pain from right to left over pubes ; in region of navel ; in back and limbs ; in hip bone ; pain
in shin bones ; upward in symphysis, downward in thighs ; in calves.
Burning : on top of head ; itching of outer ear ; pain on a small spot over right ear ; upper lip ; tip of tongue ; in epigastrium ; at stomach ; in anus ; in male urethra ; in vagina ; in mamma ; in larynx ; in
chest ; pit of stomach ; under arms ; on buttocks ; in skin ; in throat.
Biting : in nostrils ; in skin.
Smarting : of roots of hair.
Sore pain : in bones of skull ; piles ; aching in bladder ; aching between external labia ; aching in genitals ; clavicles ; pain in sternum ; in heel.
Soreness : of thighs as if beaten ; in and around ears ; tip of tongue ; right hypochondrium ; around navel ; of scrotum ; in uterus and vagina ; in right groin ; over clavicle ; in os coccygis ; under arms ; in sacro-iliac
symphysis ; of tips of fingers ; in knees.
Gouty pain : in big toe.
Aching : in throat ; in heel ; big toe ; of extensors ; in limbs ; pains around lateral protuberances of occiput ; of eyeballs ; in and around ears ; all bones around ears ; region of parotid glands ; in throat ; around
navel ; abdominal wall ; soreness, left groin ; piles ; in uterus ; in neck of bladder ; in vagina ; nipples ; in os coccygis ; shoulders and shoulder blades ; down arms ; of thighs as if beaten ; in genitals ; over mons
veneris ; near root of big toe nail.
Dull aching : in chest.
Pressure : above eyes and towards them ; in and around ears ; in rectum ; in stomach ; right hypochondrium ; left hypochondrium ; pain right side of bladder ; in abdomen ; in uterus ; in vagina ; in genitals ; aching, in
chest ; in sternum ; in os coccygis ; from shoulder joint along whole arm.
Bruised : pains in shoulder or down arms.
Gnawing : outer chest.
Pinching : left side of belly ; colon.
Griping : in bowels.
Cramplike pains : in neck : in stomach ; in forearm ; in feet ; in ankle joint ; in big toe ; in wrist ; in calves.
Rheumatic pain : in upper arm, near shoulder joint ; in head ; in face ; of neck.
Undefined pain : in processus zygomaticus ; in face ; around navel ; transverse colon ; in region of kidneys ; neck of bladder, violent, in bladder ; in vagina ; in mamma ; and aches, in neck, between and mostly below shoulder blades ; in
left lung and left hypochondrium ; in back ; small of back ; in os coccygis ; in shoulders and shoulder blades ; in right wrist ; above knee ; in bones ; in shin bones ; big toe ; in joints ; in eye and stomach teeth ; in tongue,
fauces pharynx, chest and pit of stomach ; in stomach ; in arms.
Anxious feeling : down limbs.
Restless : lower limbs.
Uneasiness : in region of stomach, buttocks and back.
Throbbing : headache ; right hypochondrium ; in genitals ; between and mostly below shoulder blades ; over mons veneris.
Pulsating : in anus ; between and mostly below shoulder blades.
Kicking : left side of belly ; over pubis.
Quivering : abdominal wall ; over pubis ; outer chest.
Twitching : in big toe.
Pressing down : in bladder.
Bearing down : towards anus.
Tension : in scalp of forehead ; in penis.
Weakness : in fauces and throat ; in bladder ; of male organs ; in region of uterus.
Sinking : at epigastrium ; around navel ; in abdomen.
Emptiness : in fauces and throat.
Tickling : in nose, and sneezing ; in genitals.
Running : left side of belly.
Crawling : in legs ; with pains, < at night and in bed ; over top of head.
Creeping : in occiput.
Tingling : abdominal wall ; in legs.
Numbness : on occiput ; of hands ; of abdominal walls.
Asleep : buttocks and back ; lower limbs.
Lameness : of arms, as if beaten.
Shocks like electric sparks.
Warmth : in anus ; between external labia ; in ischium ; in calves.
Heat : in head ; in face ; on lower part of chest ; upper arm.
Hot feeling : in eyelids.
Coldness : on occiput ; of ears ; in abdomen, with nausea ; towards or back of eyes.
Itching : inner and outer ears ; point of nose ; piles ; in anus ; of scrotum ; under arms ; on buttocks ; in skin.
Dryness : in throat at night ; of mouth and tongue.

Tissues

Bones affected along sutures or at symphysis.
Non-union of fractured bones.
Curvature of spine to left ; lumbar vertebræ bend forward.
Condyles swollen on forearms and lower limbs.
Abscess near lumbar vertebræ.
Spina bifida.
Large pedunculated nasal polypi ; polypi of rectum and uterus.
Incipient mesenteric tabes, with much diarrhœa, fetid sometimes lienteric.
Rachitis ; fontanelles wide open ; diarrhœa, emaciation.
Rheumatic pains in joints and various parts of body.
Soreness of tendons when flexing or extending.
Flabby, shrunken, emaciated children.
Anemia ; true bloodlessness.
Phosphatic diathesis.
Tendency of bones to bend or curve.
(OBS :) Cancer in scrofulous constitutions
Caries of hip joint and heel, with stinking pus.
Most pains in joint, afterwards in bones.
Sharp pain in tendons.
(OBS :) A constituent of teeth, bones, connective tissue and blood corpuscles, and to be given in corresponding disturbances, ; in true chlorosis from anemia ; chronic swelling of glands ; chronic articular rheumatism ; gout ; exostoses, osteophytes and
similar new growths on bone ; scrofulosis ; suppuration of bones and joints ; dropsy from loss of blood or of other fluids, or depending on diseases of heart, liver and kidneys.
Malnutrition and defective cell growth.
Anemia : from growing fast, rapid childbearing, prolonged suckling, or excessive menstruation.
Brain fag and other bad effects of town life.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Riding in a carriage : ears itch ; he has a second stool ; his foot falls asleep ; crawling in sole ; erections ; buttocks asleep ; restlessness in lower legs.
Lifting : child from cradle causes suffocative attacks.
Touch : burning pain on a small spot over right ear painful to touch ; a pain in head of left tibia so sore, he could not bear it touched.
Pressure : < head, chest, belly and limb symptoms.
Every step is felt in head, or in sacrum.
In fractures to promote formation of callus.
The place of old injury becomes the seat of new affections.

Skin

Dry skin, most on hands.
Skin dark, brown or yellow.
Itching and burning as from nettles.
Itching, biting, most on places years before affected.
Tetters on lower legs, peeling off, scaling.
Pimples in region of joints.
(OBS :) Eczema with anemia ; dry crusty affections.
Furuncles form ulcers.
Fistulous or scrofulous ulcers ; slow to heal.
Ulceration, after a mustard poultice is allowed to remain too long. [Obs. Sapo sodœ relieves the burning.]
Ulcerating scars after an amputation.
(OBS :) Tubercles in skin.
Cholesteatoma.
(OBS :) Skin diseases (scurfy and scabby) in anemic, scrofulous or gouty constitutions.
(OBS :) Lupus.

Stage of life, constitution

During first and second dentition, diarrhœa with much wind. θ Hydrocephalus. θ Diarrhœa.
θ Rachitis.
Children lose flesh, will not stand any more ; do not learn to walk.
(OBS :) Delicate growing girls or children.
Girls at or near puberty, schoolgirls.
Old people : vertigo ; constipation, fractures.
Child, 1 1/2 years old ; light complexion. θ Incipient hydrocephalus.
A girl, æt. 16. θ Keratitis after variola.
A girl, æt. 18. θ Epileptic spasms.
A young man, æt. 18 ; indurated breast.
Tedious cases, in scrofulous or anemic children.
Anemic subjects : gonorrhœa ; catarrhs ; pains ; chlorosis ; skin diseases.
Debilitated persons : prolapsus, etc.
Scrofulous constitutions : catarrh ; epilepsy ; skin diseases.
Gouty constitutions : catarrh ; pains ; skin diseases.

Relations

Remarkable similarities with Carb. an .
Compatible : before Sulphur ; after Arsen., Iodum, Mercur . (incipient mesenteric tabes).
Complementary : Ruta .
Compare : in bone affections, fistulæ, etc., Berber ., Calc. ostr ., Calc. fluor ., Fluor ac ., Ruta , Silica ,
Sulphur ; in joint affections, rheumatic and suppurative, Berber., Kali phosph., Natr. mur . (hygroma) ; in dental caries, Fluor ac., Magn. phosph., Silica ; in epilepsy,
Calc. ostr., Ferr. phosph., Kali mur., Kali phosph., Silica ; in spasm of eyelids, Calc. ostr., Nux vom . ; in diabetes, Kali phosph., Natr. phosph . ; in tabes
mesenterica, Arsen., Iodum, Mercur . ; in hemorrhoids, Ferr. phosph . ; in worm affections, Natr. phosph . (removes disposition) ; in debility after acute diseases, Psorin . ;
in peevishness and fretfulness of children, Chamom.

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

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

Lecture

During the growing period many children need this remedy. if the head bones are slow in forming, or do not keep pace with the growth of the child, this remedy is often called for.

Where the child is losing flesh, slow learning to do things, slow learning to walk, or the legs are not strong enough to support the body, or it is behind in mental development, this remedy is one to be examined (like Baryta carb., Borax, Ph. ac., Nat. m., Calc.).

Flabby, shrunken, emaciated children. Non-union of fractured bones, swollen condyles, are symptoms accepted by all text-books as strong symptoms of this remedy. It has cured polypi of nose, rectum and uterus. It has cured enlarged glands of the neck, groin and abdomen.

Rachitis, with fontanelles open, and diarrhea, in emaciating children. Rheumatic pains in the joints and limbs, worse from cold weather, or in every cold change of weather. Pale, waxy skin; anaemia.

Growing pains nights in fast growing children. Phtisical subjects. Diseases of bone. Easy ulceration. Itching, burning, eruptions. Sensitive to cold. Sensitive to a jar.

The pains are shooting, drawing, aching, burning, pressing. It has a shaking chill that spreads downward. Dry heat in evening. Copious night sweats.

The complaints of this remedy are generally better during rest, come on during motion, and are greatly aggravated by exertion. Stiffness on moving in bed. General bodily weakness. Numbness of many parts. Trembling. Fear brings on complaints; palpitation.

Mind

Electric shock, so severe that the patient could not remain standing. Epileptic spasms. Convulsions of children; but the remedy must be given when not in the convulsion to secure the best effect. The mind shows above all a tired and weak brain.

Feeble memory, and inability to sustain mental effort. Suffering in the head from mental exertion. Dreads mental exertion. Sluggish mind. Imbecility.

Feeble minded children. The child grasps the head with the hands and screams. Thinking of complaints causes them to appear or increase. Extremely fretful.

Ailments from bad news, grief, unrequited affections, vexation. She seeks solitude to commune with her thoughts and to shun the exertion of society. Discontented with his own surroundings and goes from place to place.

Head

Vertigo in cold wind, from mental and physical exertion, when rising from sitting, when walking in cold air.

The head symptoms are still more striking. The dull headaches of school children-always come home from school with headache. The head is sensitive to a jar, to pressure, to the hat; wants it washed in cold water; wants to be quite and alone.

Throbbing and burning in the head. Rheumatic headache, seems to be in the whole head, in cold weather, being out in the cold wind; worse from walking, worse from exertion, worse at night. It has many times prevented hydrocephalus. Frontal headaches, and forehead and eyes worse from pressure of the hat. Perspiration of scalp; forehead cold to touch. Tearing pain in bones of head. Cold occiput. Eczema of scalp. Ulcers of scalp.

In children when coming out of brain congestion if there is strabismus, diarrhea, and losing flesh. Glittering fiery circles before the eyes. Pain in eyes from reading in artificial light. Eyes blurred. Soreness in eyeballs. Pains worse thinking about them. Ulceration of cornea. Eyes feel hot. Easy lachrymation.

Rheumatic tearing in the ears when the weather changes to cold. Ears very cold. Aching deep in ear. Enlarged, painful parotid glands.

Eruption about the ears. Noises in ears after stool. Dry catarrh of the middle ear. This remedy is useful in chronic catarrh of the nose when the general symptoms agree.

Polypi in the nose. Icy cold nose. Fluent coryza in a cold room, stopped in a warm room. Epistaxis.

Pale, waxy face, dirty skin. Rheumatic face ache in every cold spell of weather. Cold perspiration on face.

Neuralgia of face at night, in cold air; worse from exertion, ameliorated by heat; sensitive to pressure ( Mag. p. is better by heat and pressure). Dark blotches and pustules on the face. Swollen upper lip, painful, hard and burning.

Teeth late coming in or decay soon. Teeth sensitive to touch, pressure, or when masticating. Complaints of teething children.

Foul taste in mouth. Bitter taste in the morning. Tongue coated in the morning. Tongue swollen, numb and stiff.

Growing children suffer from chronic throat troubles. Enlarged tonsils. Every cold settles in the tonsils ( Baryta c., Alumen). Much mucus in throat. Dryness in throat at night.

Stomach and abdomen

Craves salt bacon and smoked meats. Strong appetite. Infants want to nurse all the time. Easily disordered stomach. Cold drinks, ice cream, fruits disorder the stomach, causing pain or diarrhoea. Pain in stomach after food. Eructations and nausea.

Soreness in the stomach. Sour eructations, nausea and vomiting. Burning in the stomach. Nausea from scraping the larynx or throat. Vomiting in infants, in children, and in pregnancy. Violent pain in the stomach; diarrhoea aggravated by the least food. Gnawing, empty feeling in the stomach.

After becoming chilled, pain in the liver, soreness, aggravated after eating and by motion; wants to keep quiet. Stitching pains in the liver from deep breathing or sudden motion. Pulsating in the liver. Cutting pains in the spleen. Sinking sensation in abdomen.

Burning in the abdomen, rising up into the chest. Pain in the abdomen ameliorated by passing flatus. Colic, followed by diarrhoea. Ulceration of naval in infants. Motion in abdomen from flatus as from something alive. Abdomen large and flabby.

Tabes mesenterica with diarrhoea. Green mucus and hot watery stools; white, mushy stools, copious, offensive flatus. Diarrhea from fruit, ice cream, cold drinks or vexation. Diarrhea in the morning in phtisical patients. Very offensive stools.

Stools and anus

Constipation, with difficult, hard stool. Bleeding from the rectum and anus during stool. Protruding piles so painful that he is kept in bed for weeks; the pain is intense standing, walking, from touch; ameliorated by heat; with general sufferings, every sudden cold change of the weather. Piles itch and burn and discharge yellow pus. Itching of the anus in the evening.

Stitching pain in the anus, with or without hemorrhoids. Boils and abscesses about and near the anus, discharging blood and pus. Fistula in tuberculous subjects. Fissured anus, with burning stitching pains.

Urines

Weak and irritable bladder. Catarrh of the bladder. Frequent urging to urinate. Copious flow of urine. Pain in the neck of the bladder before and after urinating. Aching in the empty bladder. This remedy has cured diabetes mellitus. Violent pain in the region of the kidneys.

Sexual desire increased. Painful erections. It has cured many cases of chronic gonorrhoea when the discharge is gleety and there are sharp pains in the urethra and prostate gland. Gonorrheal rheumatism when of long standing and worse in every cold change in the weather ( Med.),

Women

The woman has no better friend than Calc. p.

Her sufferings at puberty when she is slow in maturing are often met by this medicine. From taking cold at first menstrual period often comes a painful menstruation that lasts during menstrual life, unless cured by this remedy.

Violent cramping in uterus and groin several hours before the flow starts, relieved after the flow has been fully established.

The pains make her cry out. Intense sexual excitement (like Platina, Gratiola, Origanum). Weak, sinking sensation in the pelvis.

Prolapsus of uterus during stool and micturition. Uterine polypus. Labor-like pains at the beginning of menstruation. Copious menstrual flow, with very dark clots and membranes.

Leucorrhea like white of egg day and night. Throbbing, titillating in external genitalia. Burning in the vagina and uterus during menses. Child refuses mother's milk. It may be given to a woman who has brought forth one or two children that may be considered Calc. p. babies. The next child will be stronger and have a better constitution.

Voice and larynx

It is often observed that this patient scrapes, mucus from the larynx before he can talk or sing. Hoarseness, dry hacking cough day and night. Tubercular laryngitis.

Suffocation on slight exertion, or on ascending stairs. In thin, pale, sickly people with dry, hacking cough worse in cold, damp weather in rheumatic constitutions. Yellow expectoration.

Stitching pains in the chest. Emaciation of the chest. Difficult expectoration. It is a very useful remedy in phthisis and blood spitting. Much sweat on the chest. Rattling in the chest with difficult expectoration, like Caust.

Soreness of the chest to touch. Palpitation, with trembling of the limbs.

Back and limbs

The back pains are worse in cold, stormy weather, attended with stiffness, and worse in the morning. The back is sensitive to draft. Pain in the back from lifting or straining. Curvature of spine. Tearing, shooting; tenderness and aching in the spine. Soreness in sacroiliac symphysis. Pain in lumbar region and sacrum at the menstrual period.

Rheumatic pains in the limbs in cold weather, worse from motion, better during rest and from heat. Trembling in all the limbs. Stiffness after resting, and in the morning. Aching in the bones, like growing pains. Gouty fingers and toes that become painful in cold weather. Ulcerative pains in the roots of the nails.

The most severe tearing, shooting pains are in the lower limbs. The probable reason for this is that the lower limbs are always cold to the knees, and the cold parts are always the suffering parts in this remedy.

Sharp pains in tendons of the lower limbs. Intense aching boring pains in the knees, and long bones. Pains in the tibia with soreness. Drawing pain in the tibia. Cramp in the calves. Ulcers on the legs; weak, chronic; no granulation. Rheumatism of the ankles. Caries of the os calcis. Stringing and shooting in the toes.

Sleepy daytime and evening. Sleepless after going to bed until midnight or later. Very sleepy in the morning. Vivid dreams. Children cry out in sleep. Frightful dreams cause him to awaken with a start.