Ferrum Phosphoricum ferr-p.

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

Vaso-motors. Venous circulation: LUNGS. Ears. Nose (root). Eustachian tube.

Worse

Night (4-6 A.M.). Motion. Noise. Jar. Cold air. Checked sweat.

Better

Cold. Bleedings. Lying down.

General

Anæmic blondes. FULL, SOFT, FLOWING PULSE. Hyperæmia. Acute exacerbations, phthisis, rheumatism, etc. Passive congestion and weakness. Bloody (streaked or meat water) discharges. Bruised soreness; chest, shoulder, muscles. Inflamed soft parts. Burning rawness.

Particulars

Keeps quiet. Anger. Excited and talkative. Cerebral irritation. Throbbing headaches, with sensitive scalp. Headache; shooting pains, aching from vertex down over sides of head; with earache (Pul.), > nosebleed. Suffused eyes. Violent earache. Acute otitis; media. Colds cause deafness. Tinnitus, < lying. Face pales and reddens alternately. Vomits ingesta. Frequent stools of bloody water. Diarrhœa. Impending hydrocephalus. Nephritis. Enuresis. Urinates after every drink (Sarsa.). Menses early, with heavy pain on vertex. Laryngitis; of singers (Aru-t.). Cough; hacking; < morning and evening. Cough, tormenting, spasmodic. Chest heavy, sore or congested. Omodynia. Jerking limbs. Drowsiness. Chill, with desire to stretch. Heat with sweaty hands. Sweatiness. Fevers; continued; infectious; pneumonia; intercurrent. Measles; hæmorrhagic.

Related

Complementary: Kali-m. Related: Gel.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Phosphate of Iron

General

In the early stages of febrile conditions, it stands midway between sthenic activity of Aconite and Bell, and the asthenic sluggishness and torpidity of Gels. The typical Ferr phos subject is not full blooded and robust, but nervous, sensitive, anæmic with the false plethora and easy flushing of Ferrum. Prostration marked; face more active than Gels. The superficial redness never assumes the dusky hue of Gels. Pulse soft and flowing; no anxious restlessness of Acon. Susceptibility to chest troubles. Bronchitis of young children. In acute exacerbation of tuberculosis, a fine palliative of wonderful power. Corresponds to Grauvogl's Oxygenoid Constitution, the inflammatory, febrile, emaciating, wasting consumptive.

The remedy for first stage of all febrile disturbances and inflammations before exudation sets in; especially for catarrhal affections of the respiratory tract. Ferr phos. 3x increases hemoglobin. In pale, anæmic subjects, with violent local congestions. Hæmorrhages, bright from any orifice.

Head

Soreness to touch, cold, noise jar. Rush of blood to head. Ill effects of sun-heat. Throbbing sensation. Vertigo. Headache better cold applications.

Eyes

Red, inflamed, with burning sensation. Feeling as of sand under lids. Hyperæmia of optic disc and retina, with blurred vision.

Ears

Noises. Throbbing. First stage of otitis. Membrana tympani red and bulging. Acute otitis; when Bellad fails, prevents suppuration.

Nose

First stage of colds in the head. Predisposition to colds. Epistaxis; bright red blood.

Face

Flushed; cheeks sore and hot. Florid complexion. Facial neuralgia; worse, shaking head and stooping.

Throat

Mouth hot; fauces red, inflamed. Ulcerated sore throat. Tonsils red and swollen. Eustachian tubes inflamed. Sore throat of singers. Subacute laryngitis with fauces inflamed and red (2x). After operations on throat and nose to control bleeding and relieve soreness. First stage of diphtheria. Ranula in vascular, sanguine constitutions.

Stomach

Aversion to meat and milk. Desire for stimulants. Vomiting of undigested food. Vomiting of bright red blood. Sour eructations.

Abdomen

First stage of peritonitis. Hæmorrhoids. Stools watery, bloody, undigested. First stage of dysentery, with much blood in discharges.

Urinary

Urine spurts with every cough. Incontinence. Irritation at neck of bladder. Polyuria. Diurnal enuresis.

Female

Menses every three weeks, with bearing-down sensation and pain on top of head. Vaginismus. Vagina dry and hot.

Respiratory

First stage of all inflammatory affections. Congestions of lungs. Hæmoptysis. Short, painful tickling cough. Croup. Hard, dry cough, with sore chest. Hoarseness. Expectoration of pure blood in pneumonia (Millefol). Cough better at night.

Heart

Palpitation; pulse rapid. First stage of cardiac diseases. Short, quick, soft pulse.

Extremities

Stiff neck. Articular rheumatism. Crick in back. Rheumatic pain in shoulder; pains extend to chest and wrist. Whitlow. Palms hot. Hands swollen and painful.

Sleep

Restless and sleepless. Anxious dreams. Night sweats of anæmia.

Fever

Chill daily at 1 pm. All catarrhal and inflammatory fevers; first stage.

Modalities

Worse, at night and 4 to 6 pm; touch, jar, motion, right side. Better, cold applications.

Relationship

Compare: (Oxygenoid Constitution. Acon; China; Arsenic; Graphit; Petrol). Ferrum pyrophosph (congestion of brain and headache following great loss of blood; tarsal cysts); Acon; Gelsem; China.

Dose

Third to twelfth potency.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

E. B. Nash · Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Nash d. 1917; public domain)

Leaders

This one of Schuessler's tissue remedies has proven a valuable remedy in some inflammatory diseases. In keeping with its element of Iron, it presents the local congestion tendencies of that remedy; and in its Phosphorus element its affinity for the lungs and stomach; and in its combination proves a great hæmorrhage remedy. The hæmorrhages are of bright blood, and may come from any outlet of the body. Further proving and clinical use will enable us to use it more scientifically then we now do. So far as I have observed, it is not adapted to the full-blooded, sanguine, arterial subjects, with an overplus of red blood that Aconite cures, but rather to pale, anæmic subjects, who with all their weaknesses are nevertheless subject to sudden and violent local congestions and inflammations, like pneumonia, or sudden congestions to head, bowels, or any other part, or to inflammatory affections of a rheumatic character. It is only useful in the first stage of such attacks, before the stage of exudation appears. It has been found useful also in the above-described weakened or anæmic subjects who have sour eructations occurring in stomach troubles, usually termed dyspeptic. In dysentery, in the first stage with a good deal of blood in the discharges, it is very valuable, and often cures in a very short time.

Again, it is often efficacious in the night sweats of the weak and anæmic. I am sorry not to be able to give characteristic indications for the use of this remedy, but I am fully persuaded that is a very valuable one and ought to receive a thoroughly Hahnemannian proving.

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

Ferrum Phosphoricum Album. Ferric Phosphate. Ferroso-ferric Phosphate. White Phosphate of Iron (Schüssler's). This is said to be a true ferric phosphate, Fe 2 (PO 4 ) 2 as contrasted with the ordinary phosphate of iron, which is a ferrous-hydric phosphate, Fe HPO.

Clinical

Anus, prolapse of. Bladder, paralysis of . Bronchitis. Colic. Cough. Croup. Cystitis. Debility . Delirium tremens. Diabetes. Diarrhœa. Dyspepsia. Dysentery. Ear, affections of. Erysipelas . Fever. Frost-bite . Gastritis. Gonorrhœa. Hæmatemesis. Hæmoptysis. Hæmorrhages. Hands, swelling of . Heart, palpitation of. Inflammation. Injuries. Intermittent fever. Kidneys, Bright's disease of . Measles. Mumps. Nævus. Neuralgia. Nose, bleeding of . Phthisis hæmorrhagica. Pleurisy. Pneumonia. Raynaud's disease. Rheumatism. Sprains. Styes. Tarsal cysts. Urine, incontinence of. Veins, varicose . Vomiting. Whooping-cough.

Characteristics

The preparation of Ferrum Phos ., which plays such an important part in the therapy of Schüssler, has so far overshadowed the ordinary "Phosphate of Iron" in homœopathic practice, that I have retained the simple designation, "Ferrum Phosphoricum," for this preparation as less likely to create confusion. The ordinary phosphate, which has been proved separately, I shall describe next as Ferrum Phosphoricum Hydricum . Our chief knowledge of Fer. Phos . is from Schüssler's work and the clinical experience of those who have used it on his indications. But it has also been proved under Dr. John L. Moffat ( C. D. P. ).

In Schüssler's therapy Fer. Phos . takes the place filled by Acon., Bell., Gels., Verat. viride, Arnica , and other remedies which correspond to disturbed states of circulation, irritation, and relaxation of tissue. "Painless irritability of fibre" is Cooper's keynote as exemplified in diurnal enuresis. It also retains the leading features of the other Iron preparations: anæmia, hæmorrhages, and disorders of the veins. Inflammation, induration and enlargement of blood-vessels; great physical and mental lassitude; indisposed to physical exertion; nervousness, prostration, rheumatic paralysis. Acute inflammatory rheumatisms. The right shoulder is affected as in Fer. mur . The right-sideness of Fe. p . is as marked as that of the other Ferrum preparations. Nimier and Parenteau have cured several cases of right-supraorbital neuralgia with morning aggravation with Fe. p . 6x. The morning aggravation appears to be the distinctive indication. Nash says the hæmorrhages are bright red, but occur, not in the plethoric subjects of Acon ., but rather in pale, anæmic subjects liable to sudden local congestions. Cooper cured with Fe. p . a case of phthisis in a patient "of the transparent-skin type, the hæmoglobin shining through." Schüssler's own account of Fer. phos ., taken from the final edition of his work, translated by L. H. Tafel, is as follows: "Iron and its salts possess the property of attracting Oxygen. The iron contained in the blood corpuscles takes up the inhaled oxygen, thereby supplying with it all the tissues of the organism. The sulphur contained in the blood corpuscles and in other cells, in the form of sulphate of potassa, assists in transferring oxygen to all the cells containing iron and the sulphate of potassa. [ 1 ] When the molecules of iron contained in the muscle-cells have suffered a disturbance in their motion through some foreign irritation, then the cells affected grow flaccid. If this affection takes place in the annular fibres of the blood-vessels, these are dilated; and as a consequence the blood contained in them is augmented. Such a state is called hyperæmia from irritation; such a hyperæmia forms the first stage of inflammation. But when the cells affected have been brought back to the normal state by the therapeutic effect of iron ( Phosphate of Iron ) then the cells are enabled to cast off the causative agents of this hyperæmia, which are then received by the lymphatics in order that they may be eliminated from the organism. [ 2 ] When the muscular cells of the intestinal villi have lost molecules of iron, then these villi become unable to perform their functions: diarrhœa ensues. [ 3 ] When the muscular cells of the intestinal walls have lost molecules of iron, then the peristaltic motion of the intestinal canal is retarded, resulting in an inertia with respect to the evacuation of the fæces."

From the above Schüssler deduces the following indications for Iron: "When the muscular cells which have grown flaccid through loss of iron receive a compensation for their loss, the normal tensional relation is restored; the annular fibres of the blood-vessels are shortened to their proper measure, the capacity of these vessels again becomes normal, and the hyperæmia disappears, and in consequence the inflammatory fever ceases. Iron will cure:

1. The first stage of all inflammations.

2. Pains caused by hyperæmia.

3. Hæmorrhages caused by hyperæmia.

4. Fresh wounds, contusions, sprains, &c., as it removes the hyperæmia.

The pains which correspond to iron are increased by motion, but relieved by cold. In the muscle-cells iron is found in the form of a phosphate; we should therefore in therapeutics use Ferrum phosphoricum ." Schüssler generally used the 12x trituration. As an instance of hyperæmia of a low order may be mentioned a case of Raynaud's disease of the fingers and toes, in which amputation seemed inevitable. Halbert effected a complete cure with Fe. p . 6x trit. Fe. p . is suited to the leuco-phlegmatic temperament; to young persons with varicose veins. Pains go from below upward. Great emaciation. Takes cold easily. Results of checked perspiration on a warm summer day (peritonitis): Open air < cough; and there is sensitiveness to cold air. Warm drinks < , cold and cold drinks > toothache. Aversion to meat and milk. While eating at table, chill. < By eating. < From meat, herring, coffee, cake. < From tea. Rest > , motion < ; gentle motion > pain in upper arms and shoulders. < At night, and 4 to 6 a.m. Sensitive to touch and every jar.

Relations

Compare: Acon. (more bounding pulse than Fe. p.); Gels. (more flowing pulse); Caustic. and Puls. (cough with spurting of urine). Compatible: Kali mur. (croup, pneumonia, palpitation, typhus) Kali p. (colic, threatened gangrene); Calc. sul. (hip-joint disease) Calc. p. (chlorosis, hæmorrhoids); Calc. fl. (hæmorrhoids); Nat. sul. (diabetes); Ant. t. (capillary bronchitis). According to Cooper Fe. phos. antidoted "violent disuria, night and day," caused by Stront. bro.

Causation

Checked perspiration on a warm summer's day. Mechanical injuries.

Mind

Very talkative and hilarious; unnatural excitement. ─ Delirium tremens. ─ Physical and mental depression. ─ Unable to concentrate thoughts. ─ Memory impaired: for names, facts, &c.; irritated at his own mental sluggishness. ─ Drowsiness; with rush of thoughts, suddenly changing from pleasant to unpleasant. ─ (Sows eat up their young; a transient mania depending on hyperæmia of the brain.)

Head

Dizziness; feeling as if head was being suddenly pushed forward. ─ Everything swims around him; his muscles seemed so weak he could hardly move about. ─ General dull headache < 5 p.m. ─ Hammering pain in forehead and temples, fears apoplexy; < r., formerly < l. ─ Supra-orbital neuralgia of r. side, with a morning aggravation. ─ Frontal headache, followed and relieved by nose-bleed. ─ Scarcely endurable, dull, heavy pain at vertex during menses, which are profuse. ─ Top of head sensitive to cold air, noise, and any jar; on stooping sharp pain through head, from back to front; at times a feeling as if head were being pushed forward, with danger of falling. Pinching in l. temporal region from within outwards. ─ Blind headache, with bearing-down in uterus, and ovarian pains. ─ Headache: with hot, red face and vomiting of food; with nervousness at night; with general soreness of scalp, cannot bear to have hair touched. ─ Rush of blood to head, with vertigo. ─ Violent throbbing up to occiput.

Eyes

On stooping cannot see; seems as if all blood ran into eyes. ─ Blinding headache. ─ Hemianopsia (r.). ─ Conjunctivitis and photophobia. ─ Heaviness of lids, esp. r. ─ Traumatic conjunctivitis. ─ Dry and rough feeling of lining of lids, congestion of eye ( Alumina relieved). ─ Styes on lower lids (l.), then upper. ─ Tarsal cysts.

Ears

Hard of hearing; ringing and buzzing. ─ Painful red swelling of parotids.

Nose

Nose-bleed of bright blood, in children. ─ Nose-bleed relieving headache. ─ Erysipelas, with ulceration just inside tip (l.).

Face

Face earthy, pale, sallow. ─ Heat, with redness. ─ Hot cheeks, with toothache. ─ Neuralgia in face (r.). ─ Acne in chin and forehead.

Mouth

Toothache always appearing after eating food; < by warm drinks, > by cold. ─ Complaints during dentition, with fever.

Throat

On waking, throat feels swollen and stiff, swelling painful, < empty swallowing. ─ Feeling of lump (r.) on swallowing. ─ Inflammation of palate, tonsils, and pharynx, with dryness, redness, and pain. ─ Membrane on r. tonsil, spreading to l.

Stomach

Poor appetite, with attacks of sickness. ─ Great thirst for much water. ─ Vomiting at irregular times, sometimes awaking her out of sleep. ─ Green vomit. ─ Hæmatemesis. ─ Vomiting with the pains. ─ Weight and fulness in stomach; with fulness in forehead. ─ Pain in stomach < after eating, and by pressure.

Abdomen

Distension in hypochondria and region of stomach. ─ Feeling of a layer of hard substance in abdomen; later of hardness in spots. ─ Intolerance of clothes touching abdomen and chest; throws them off at night. ─ Colic before stool. ─ Hernia: inflamed and incarcerated.

Stool and Anus

Chronic diarrhœa; yellow, watery (with pneumonia). ─ Lienteria from relaxation of intestinal muscles. ─ Dark green stools, odourless. ─ Hot flatus. ─ Dysentery with violent fever; fever continues < from pressure on stomach; no tenesmus. ─ Summer diarrhœa, stools green, watery, or hashed, mixed with mucus, scanty, straining at stool; also retching, child rolls its head and moans, eyes half open. ─ Stools pure blood; bloody mucus or slime; < midnight to morning. ─ Green and hard stools expelled with much effort. ─ Habitual constipation; piles; disposition to prolapse.

Urinary Organs

Frequent desire to urinate, urgent, with pain in neck of bladder and end of penis; must urinate immediately, which > the pain; < during the day; < standing. ─ Enuresis nocturna from weakness of sphincter. ─ Enuresis diurna from irritability of trigone, > lying down. ─ Urine spurts out with every cough. ─ Complaints before urinating. ─ Urine smells like café au lait . ─ Hæmorrhage from bladder or urethra.

Male Sexual Organs

Seminal emissions. ─ Sexual instinct completely in abeyance. ─ Dull aching in r. testicle. ─ Gonorrhœa, inflammatory stage.

Female Sexual Organs

Bearing-down in uterus, with constant dull pain in either ovarian region. ─ Vaginismus. ─ Pain in vagina during coition; cannot bear examination. ─ Dryness of vagina. ─ Dysmenia, with accelerated pulse and red face. ─ Menses pale first half of period. ─ Menses every three weeks, profuse, with pressure in abdomen and small of back. ─ During profuse menses, pain on top of head. ─ During pregnancy: cough with ejection of urine; headache during third month.

Respiratory Organs

Laryngitis, with hoarseness from overstraining voice. ─ Hoarse; raises greenish mucus in biggish lumps. ─ Much mucus in throat and rattling in chest. ─ Pleuritic stitch with a deep inspiration, or cough. ─ Acute, short, spasmodic, and very painful cough. ─ Suddenly a loose cough, painless indoors, but painful in open air. ─ Tormenting cough when bending over or touching larynx. ─ Cough: causes spurting of urine; < in open air; < touching larynx; < at night. ─ Whooping-cough, with retching and vomiting. ─ Hæmoptysis; after concussion or fall.

Heart

Dull, aching pain at heart; sometimes extending to back, l. of spine. ─ Palpitation with full pulse (less bounding than Acon ., less flowing than Gels .).

Neck and Back

Crick in neck or back.

Limbs

Rheumatism attacking one joint after another; joints puffy, but little red; high fever; < slightest motion. ─ Rheumatism of wrist and knee.

Upper Limbs

Violent drawing, tearing pain r. shoulder and upper arm, < violent motion of arm, > gentle motion, so that patient hardly kept it still at all; somewhat sensitive; deadness in r. hand. ─ Acute rheumatism of r. deltoid; unable to wear cloak. ─ In r. shoulder-joint acute rheumatism; red, swollen; very sensitive. ─ Swelling of elbow from sprain. ─ Rheumatism in wrist. ─ Wrists ache with loss of power to grasp. ─ Palms of hands hot, with children. ─ Nodule on dorsum of l. little finger. ─ Contracted fingers from acute rheumatism.

Lower Limbs

Pain and soreness in hip. ─ Pains in knees spreading to other joints, finally to shoulders and upper thorax (after Ferr. Phos . it went downwards from joint to joint, to knees, and then passed off). ─ While walking constrictive pain in anterior aspect of shins, lower third, as if he had been walking very hard and fast (which was not so), < l. ─ Ankle, outer side, pale red; foot greatly swollen and sensitive; toe feels as if burning. ─ Steady, terrible pain all over foot and ankle, extorting cries, shooting pains around ankle and up inside of leg. ─ An acute, very painful sugillation on dorsum of foot.

Skin

Capillary congestion, with burning of skin, < from severe exercise or in a warm room. ─ Measles. ─ Erysipelas. ─ Acne.

Sleep

Drowsiness, with rush of thoughts. ─ Eyes half open in sleep. ─ Restless at night. ─ Restless sleep with anxious dreams; great depression in morning. ─ Sleepless from severity of pains. ─ Dreams of quarelling; suddenly changes to happy conversation with another person.

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Mind

Very talkative and hilarious ; unnatural excitement.
Delirium tremens.
Sows eat up their young ; a transient mania depending upon hyperemia of brain.

Sensorium

Dizziness with constant feeling as if head were being suddenly pushed forward, with danger of falling.
Great dizziness ; every thing swims around him ; his muscles seemed so weak he could hardly move about.
Vertigo caused by congestion to various parts of brain or head.
Relieved symptoms supposed to be due to cerebral venous congestions.

Inner head

Hammering pain in forehead and temples, so severe that she fears an apoplectic stroke ; < in right side, formerly < on left θ Dyspepsia.
Frontal headache, followed and relieved by nosebleed.
Scarcely endurable, dull, heavy pain on top of head during menses which are very profuse.
Top of head sensitive to cold air, noise and any jar ; on stooping, sharp pain through head, from back to front ; at times, a feeling as if head were being pushed forward, with danger of falling.
Severe headache, soreness in vertex, general soreness of scalp, cannot bear to have hair touched, great nervousness at night.
On stooping a sharp pain through head, from back to front.
Headache or neuralgia of face with stinging, pressing or throbbing, < from shaking head, stooping and all motion.
"Blind headache," in a lady who had at the same time a bearing down sensation in uterus, with a constant dull pain in either ovarian region.
Headache with hot, red face and vomiting of food.
Rush of blood to head with vertigo.
Congestion of brain in children and grown persons ; meningitis.
Congestion to head with epilepsy.

Outer head

Soreness in vertex, general soreness of scalp, cannot bear to have the hair touched. θ Headache.
Top of head sensitive to cold and noise or any jar.

Sight and eyes

On stooping cannot see ; seems as if all blood ran into eyes.
Blinding headache.
Acute conjunctivitis without suppuration, or discharge of mucus.
Ophthalmia, first stage ; marked redness with great pain, and without mucus or pus.
Traumatic conjunctivitis from a bad wound, after case had been badly treated ; it lessened the burning, redness and trickling of tears.
Eyes inflamed during dentition.
Conjunctivitis and photophobia. θ Measles.
(In sick :) Stye on lower lid of right eye.

Hearing and ears

Sensitive to noise.
Roaring or buzzing from rush of blood to head.
Inflammatory pain in ear ; otitis.
Catarrhal affection of Eustachian tube and ear, often combined with catarrh in chest, or bowels, or both.
Painful red swelling of parotids, one side or both. θ Measles.

Smell and nose

Nosebleed of bright blood. θ Summer complaint.
Nosebleed : with blood spitting ; following and relieving headache ; a concomitant of other complaints.
Bleeding of nose in children.
Coryza ; at the very beginning.

Upper face

Face earthy, pale, sallow.
Red face, with dysmenorrhœa.
Pain with heat and redness of face.
Hot cheeks with toothache.
Neuralgia in face.

Teeth and gums

Toothache, with hot cheeks.
Congestive or inflammatory toothache or faceache.
Toothache always appearing after eating food ; > by cold.
(OBS :) Caries dentium.
Complaints during dentition, with fever.
Toothache < by warm, and > by cold drinks.

Taste, speech, tongue

Tongue swollen and dark red.
Inflammation of tongue, fauces and tonsils ; redness, pain without exudation.

Palate and throat

Constant inflammation of palate, tonsils and pharynx, with dryness, redness and pain.
Fever ; glistening, flushed eyes ; red cheeks ; tonsils red and swollen, especially right, on which was a tuft-like exudation, about its centre, and about one-fourth inch in diameter, hanging downwards, the upper attachment looking blackish, next
to the tonsils ; fetid breath ; next day tonsil clear, fever gone, but a similar mass of exudation on posterior wall of pharynx ; on day following apparently well, but next morning another patch of exudation appeared on left side, which finally disappeared on resumption of
remedy.
Soreness of throat ; tonsils red and moderately swollen ; some fever ; diphtheritic membrane on part of right tonsil.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Loss of appetite.
Poor appetite with attacks of sickness ; could hardly get enough to eat after attacks of nausea.
Great thirst for much water. θ Summer complaint.
Aversion to meat.
Aversion to milk. θ Dyspepsia.
Better from drinking tea.
Worse after meat, herring, coffee, cake. θ Dyspepsia.

Eating and drinking

While eating at table, chill.
After warm food or drinks, toothache, > by cold.
Eating aggravates gastralgia.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Sudden attacks of "deathly sickness at stomach", coming on at no particular time, sometimes even awaking her out of sleep, and lasting from a half to one hour ; appetite poor.
After eating, nausea and vomiting of food ; vomited matter very sour, setting teeth on edge ; vomiting in morning before eating. θ Dyspepsia.
Vomiting. θ Gastritis. θ Whooping cough. θ Summer
complaint. θ Intermittent fever.
Vomiting with the pains.
Green vomiting. θ Pneumonia.
Vomiting of blood.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Puffed up in region of stomach and hypochondria.
Pain in stomach < after eating.
Acute and chronic gastralgia < by eating and pressure on stomach ; vomiting of food.
Acute gastritis with violent pain in region of stomach which is distended ; vomiting and fever.
Anorexia ; aversion to milk ; nausea and vomiting after eating ; vomited matter so sour that it sets the teeth on edge ; < from meat, herring, coffee and cake, particularly sour things ; sometimes vomiting in morning before food has
been taken ; cephalalgia, hammering in forehead and temples, formerly < on left side, now < on r. side, so severe that she fears she will have an apoplectic stroke ; menses profuse and early ; stool regular ; sleep restless, with anxious dreams ; greatly
depressed in morning ; in evening sensation of constriction, must loosen her clothing. θ Dyspepsia.
Catarrh of stomach and bowels.

Abdomen and loins

Colic before stool.
Bellyache with watery diarrhœa.
Inflammatory colic of horses.
Peritonitis.
Abdominal hernia in persons otherwise robust.
Inflamed and incarcerated hernia.

Stools and rectum

Yellow, watery diarrhœa. θ Pneumonia.
Chronic diarrhœa.
Lienterie from relaxation of pyloric muscles.
Stools contain undigested food in consequence of disturbance in the muscular fibres of the stomach.
Lienterie after a catarrh.
Dysentery commencing with violent fever ; pain depends upon inflammatory condition, does not intermit and is < from pressure on stomach.
Before stool : colic ; no tenesmus or but slight.
During stool : no tenesmus or only slight.
Frequent stools, green, watery or hashed, mixed with mucus, scanty ; straining at stool, also retching ; child rolls its head and moans ; eyes half open ; face pinched ; urine scanty ; pulse and respiration accelerated ;
starting in sleep. θ Summer complaint.
Stools : of pure blood, bloody mucus, or bloody scum ; yellowish, whitish, brown with blood ; like bloody fish-brine ; green watery or green mucous, with blood, no pain ; blood dark or light. θ Summer
complaint.
Aggravation : midnight till morning (bloody serous stools) ; bloody mucus mixed with watery discharges day or night. θ Summer complaint.
Cholera depending on an inflammatory state.
Habitual constipation.
Constipation caused by atony of muscular fibres of intestines.
Disposition to prolapsus recti.
Hemorrhoidal troubles and obstinate constipation.
Hemorrhoids, with catarrh of stomach and bowels.

Urinary organs

(OBS :) Bright's disease ; diabetes.
Hemorrhage from bladder or from urethra.
Cystitis, with violent fever.
Frequent desire to urinate, urgent, with pain in neck of bladder and end of penis : must urinate immediately, which > the pain ; the above only, or chiefly during day, not at night ; < the more he stands.
Enuresis nocturna from weakness of sphincter.
Diurnal enuresis, depending on an irritability of trigone and cervix vesicæ, > when pressure of urine is taken off by recumbent posture.
Urine spurts out with every cough.
Retention of urine, with fever in little children.
Complaints before making water.

Male sexual organs

Seminal emissions.
Inflammatory stage of gonorrhœa.

Female sexual organs

Bearing down sensation in uterus with constant dull pain in either ovarian region.
Vaginismus, pain in vagina during coitus ; cannot bear examination.
Dysmenorrhœa, with accelerated pulse and red face.
Menses every three weeks, profuse, with pressure in abdomen and small of back. θ Dyspepsia.
During profuse menses pain on top of head.
Chlorosis.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

During the third month of pregnancy. θ Headache.
Cough with ejection of urine ; during pregnancy.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Laryngitis and hoarseness from overstraining voice.
Much mucus in throat and rattling in chest.
Acute bronchial catarrh affecting larger and smaller bronchi.
Bronchitis of young children.
Violent fever in beginning of croup.

Respiration

Pleuritic stitch with a deep inspiration or cough.

Cough

Acute, short, spasmodic and very painful cough.
Tormenting cough when bending head over or touching larynx.
Short, dry, hacking cough, with involuntary spurting of urine. θ During pregnancy.
Spasmodic cough every morning when dressing, greatly < by going into open air ; fits of coughing produce involuntary micturition.
Cough in paroxysms, most at night or during day when asleep.
Cough < at night with much rattling of mucus in chest which is also most marked at night ; slight fever.
Whooping cough with retching and vomiting.
Inflammatory or catarrhal stage of whooping cough.
Expectoration of clear blood. θ Pneumonia.
Hæmoptysis, after concussion or a fall.

Inner chest and lungs

Catarrhs on chest of children, similar to Aconite.
Right-sided pleuritic stitch < when coughing and on deep inspiration.
Pleuritis and pneumonia, first stage.
Pneumonia, the hyperemia depending on relaxation of muscular fibres of blood-vessels as long as no exudation has taken place ; general heat of body ; very little thirst ; first stage.
Coughs up clear blood ; nosebleed at same time. θ Pneumonia.
In a tuberculous woman, æt. 49, pneumonia of left upper lobe, with well marked crepitation and profuse expectoration of frothy, pink mucus, patient almost moribund.
Full, round pulse ; congestion ; inflammation before any exudation ; sputa blood-streaked, caused by least exertion or cold air, when congestion comes in opposite lung. θ Phthisis
pulmonalis.
Hæmoptysis of phthisis.
Phthisis florida.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Palpitation from congestion.
It will not cure thoroughly unless there is a full pulse, but a pulse less bounding than in Acon., and not so flowing as in Gelsem. (Farrington).
Pulse full, from 120 to 160. θ Summer complaint.
Accelerated pulse. θ Dysmenorrhœa.
Quick pulse.
Anemia incidental to climacteric period.

Outer chest

Rheumatism in upper thorax.

Neck and back

Crick in neck or back.

Upper limbs

Violent pain in right shoulder and upper arm, of a drawing tearing character, < by violent motion of arm, > by gentle motion, and so the patient hardly kept the arm still at all ; the affected part somewhat sensitive to touch ; feeling of
deadness in right hand and loss of strength so that she could not lift heavy things. θ Rheumatism.
Acute rheumatism of right shoulder-joint ; red, swollen and very sensitive to touch.
Rheumatism of right deltoid ; unable to work, even to wear his cloak.
Swelling of elbow after a sprain, horribly maltreated by leeches and an incision, with general weakness, loss of appetite, fever and earthy, pale face ; on upper part of forearm and lower part of upper arm a large swelling, red and hot, not allowing the least motion insufferable
pains, burning ; sleepless.
Rheumatism in wrist.
Palms of hands are hot, with children. θ Rheumatic complaints.
Fingers contracted by acute articular rheumatism.

Lower limbs

Inflammation of hip-joint.
Severe pain in both knees, shooting down the legs ; every motion painful ; high fever, quick pulse and increased temperature ; sleepless at night from severity of pains ; in addition to the knees one joint after another was attacked ;
joints puffy, very little redness ; finally swelling in shoulder-joints and upper thorax ; (after Ferr. phos. it went downwards from one joint to the other, to the knees and then passed off).
Skin on outer side of ankle pale red ; foot greatly swollen and sensitive to touch toes feel as if they were burning. θ Acute synovitis.
Steady terrible pain all over foot and ankle ; cries with the pain ; occasional shooting pains up inside of leg ; once in a minute or two a shooting pain in foot around ankle. θ Acute
synovitis.
An acute very painful sugillation on dorsum of foot.

Limbs in general

Acute articular rheumatism.
Rheumatism attacking one joint after another ; joints puffy but little red ; high fever.
Wrist and knee affected by rheumatism.
Articular rheumatism < from slightest motion.
Rachitis with no pains in the epiphyses.

Rest. position. motion

Desire to lie down.
Recumbent position : > diurnal enuresis.
Standing : desire to urinate <.
Stooping : sharp pain through head ; cannot see ; faceache < ; produces tormenting cough.
Motion : causes headache ; < pain in arm and shoulder ; gentle motion > pain in upper arm and shoulder ; swelling in arm allows no motion ; pain in knees < ; articular rheumatism <.
Exertion : sputa blood-streaked.
Desire to get out of bed and run about.
Can hardly move about.

Nerves

Great nervousness at night. θ Headache.
A general feeling of weakness and desire to lie down. θ Rheumatism of shoulder.
He desired to get out of bed, and wished to run around, but he was so weak that he fell over ; very talkative and hilarious.
Muscles so weak could hardly move about.
Great prostration. θ Summer complaint.
Debility of children, with no organic lesion, save a carious condition of teeth ; flesh fairly firm, complexion delicate, hair light and curly.
Convulsions with fever.
Epilepsy with congestion to head.
Acute cases of rheumatic paralysis.

Sleep

Restless at night. θ Summer complaint.
Restless sleep at night, with anxious dreams ; great depression in morning. θ Dyspepsia.
Sleepless from severity of pains.
Restlessness and sleeplessness. θ Measles.
Cough in day time when asleep.

Time

Between 4 and 6 A. M. : sweat.
Morning : vomiting ; greatly depressed.
By day : bloody and watery discharges ; frequent desire to urinate ; cough.
Evening : sensation of constriction, must loosen her clothes.
Night : great nervousness ; bloody and watery discharges ; cough < ; more rattling of mucus on chest ; sleepless.
Midnight till morning : bloody serous stools.

Temperature and weather

Open air : < cough.
Warm drinks : toothache <.
Cold air : top of head sensitive to : sputa blood-streaked.
Cold and cold drinks : > toothache.

Fever

Chill returning at same time (1 o'clock) every day, while sitting at table.
General heat with very little thirst.
Fever with vomiting and puffed up stomach.
High fever, quick pulse and increased temperature.
Skin hot and dry. θ Summer complaint.
Fever : with complaints accompanying teething ; with gastritis ; with cystitis ; retention of urine ; beginning of croup ; with cough ; with rheumatism ; with convulsions.
Intermittent fever with vomiting of food.
In beginning of typhus.
Copious night sweats, not relieving the great pains of rheumatism, driving out of bed.
Sweat between 4 and 6 A. M., with increase of pains. θ Rheumatism of shoulder.

Attacks, periodicity

Sudden attacks of sick stomach.
Once in a minute or two : shooting pain in foot and around ankle.
Half an hour : deathly sickness at stomach.
Every morning : spasmodic cough.
Every day at same time : chill.
Every three weeks : menses.
Cough in paroxysms.
Headache at intervals for many years.

Locality and direction

Right : pain in head < right side ; stye on lower lid of eye ; tonsil red and swollen ; diphtheritic membrane on tonsil ; hammering in side of head ; pleuritic stitch ; violent pain in shoulder and upper arm ; hand numb.
Left : pneumonia of lobe ; exudation on side of throat : hammering on side of head.
Shooting : up inside of leg ; down legs.
From back to front : pain in head.

Sensations

As if head were being suddenly pushed forward ; as if all the blood ran into eyes ; toes feel as if they were burning.
As if bursting : toes.
Pain : in eyes ; of face ; of palate ; of tonsils ; of pharynx ; in stomach ; in neck of bladder ; in end of penis ; in vagina ; on top of head.
Insufferable pains : in upper limbs.
Violent pain : in region of stomach ; in right shoulder ; in upper arm.
Steady terrible pain : all over foot and ankle.
Tearing pain : in right shoulder ; in upper arm.
Severe pain : in both knees ; in head ; cries because the pain is so bad.
Sharp pain : through head.
Shooting pains : from knees to legs ; up inside of leg ; in foot ; around ankle.
Pleuritic stitch.
Neuralgia : of face.
Blinding headache.
Hammering pain : in forehead ; in temples.
Throbbing in head.
Stinging : in head.
Acute rheumatism : of right shoulder joint ; of right deltoid ; in wrist ; in fingers ; in knee ; in shoulder.
Heavy pain : on top of head.
Bearing down sensation : in uterus.
Inflammatory pain : in ear.
Inflammation : of tongue ; palate ; of tonsils ; of pharynx ; of fauces ; of hip-joint.
Burning : of eyes ; of upper limbs.
Heat : of face.
Soreness : in vertex ; of scalp ; of throat.
Constriction : in region of stomach.
Pressing : in head ; in abdomen ; in small of back.
Painful swelling : of parotids.
Dull pain : on top of head ; in either ovarian region.
Roaring buzzing : from rush of blood to head.
Dryness : of tonsils ; of palate ; of pharynx.
Dead feeling : in right hand.

Tissues

Hyperemia dependent upon relaxation of muscular fibres of blood-vessels.
All kinds of inflammation as long as no exudation has taken place.
First stage of all inflammations as long as there is no suppuration.
In first stage of inflammation, hyperemia, to the abatement of fever and beginning of sweat.
Relaxation of muscular fibres presiding over voluntary motion.
Diarrhœa from disturbed function of molecules of iron in the muscles of the villi.
Bleeding (bright red) from any orifice of body.
Blood red, easily coagulating to a gelatinous mass.
Leukemia ; the blood corpuscles are normal as to quantity but lack color.
To be given in true chlorosis as soon as the general condition has been improved by Calc. phosph. (Schüssler).
Varicose veins, in young persons.
Rheumatic fevers ; acute articular rheumatism.
Scrofula : rachitis ; periostitis ; cancer.
In the beginning of inflammation of the skin or connective tissue.
Telangiectasy ; nevus.
Dropsy from loss of blood or other fluids.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Top of head sensitive to every jar.
Touch : scalp sensitive ; on larynx produces tormenting cough ; rheumatic shoulder and arm sensitive ; foot sensitive.
Pressure : on stomach < gastralgia ; diurnal enuresis > when pressure of urine is taken off by recumnent position.
Hyperemia following mechanical injuries.
Injuries : to the eye.
After concussion or a fall : hæmoptysis.
After a sprain of elbow.
In fractures : at the beginning for injury to the soft parts ; the adjacent parts are red, hot and painful.

Skin

Capillary congestion, with burning of skin, < from severe exercise or in warm room.
Telangiectasy, nevus.
In beginning of measles.
Measles with conjunctivitis and photophobia (35 cases).
In beginning of small-pox, with violent fever and cerebral congestion.
Erysipelas with intense fever and inflammatory symptoms.

Stage of life, constitution

Leucophlegmatic temperament.
Young people, varicose veins.
Boy, æt. 5 years, very bright and shrewd ; diphtheria.
Boy, æt. 5, very fair ; pleurisy and rheumatism.
Girl, æt. 12, mother, æt. 20 ; headache.
Girl, æt. 17 ; attacks of nausea.
Young lady, nervo-sanguine temperament ; diphtheria.
Miss C., æt. 22 ; headache during catamenia.
Woman, æt. 29 ; sanguine temperament, after drinking cold water while overheated, five years ago ; dyspepsia.
Mrs. Z., æt. 35 ; rushes of blood to head.
Woman, æt. 37 ; nervous temperament ; acute rheumatism.
Woman, in third month of pregnancy, has suffered at times for many years ; headache.
Workman, æt. 39 ; unable for a long while to raise up his arm.
A woman, æt. 49 ; left-sided pneumonia.
Old maid, æt. 75 ; chronic diarrhœa.

Relations

Compare : in fevers Acon . (more bounding pulse) and Gelsem . (more flowing pulse) ; in cough with spurting urine .
Compatible : Kali mur . (croup, pneumonia, palpitation, typhus ; Kali phosph . (colic, threatened gangrene) ; Calc. sulph . (hip joint disease) ; Calc.
phosph . (chlorosis, hemorrhoids) ; Calc. fluor . (hemorrhoids) ; Natr. sulph . (diabetes) ; Ant. tart . (capillary bronchitis).

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

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

Lecture

Great weakness, and desire to lie down. Nervous at night. Rheumatic conditions.

While it has been used by Schuessler's followers for the first stage of inflammatory fevers, it is useful in the higher potencies in chronic diseases, and is a deep acting anti-psoric, It could not be less than the Ferrum and Phosphoric acid that form it.

For many years I followed the Schüessler indications, but by the aid of new provings, homeopathic aggravations, and clinical experience the present arrangement of symptoms furnishes my guide for this valuable homoeopathic remedy.

The time of aggravation

of some complaints is in the morning, some in afternoon; others come in the evening and night, and after midnight. The patient is sensitive to the open air, and many symptoms are aggravated in open air.

The most noticeable features are anaemia and chlorosis (like Ferrum). The general physical anxiety is more like Phos. acid. Lack of vital heat, and aggravation in cold air and from becoming cold. Always taking cold. Congestion of head and organs, with fever and red face.

The general weakness is like the low vitality of the phtisical inheritance. Dropsical conditions. Symptoms worse after eating, from physical exertion. Fainting spells. Cold drinks bring on symptoms. Sour food aggravates. Vascular fullness and distension of veins.

The haemorrhagic condition is a strong feature, as it is in Ferrum, Phos. acid and Phos . The nervousness of hysteria and hypochondriasis is found in this remedy. Soreness through the body, especially in congested parts; with aggravation from jar and walking. Complaints from lifting and straining muscles, and from sprains.

Many symptoms are worse lying in bed and from rest, and ameliorated by moving slowly about (like Ferrum), but the great lassitude compels him to lie down. Motion that is a real exertion aggravates, but slow. motion ameliorates. Numbness of parts and suffering parts. Surging of blood in body and head.

Stitching, tearing pains. Tearing downwards. False plethora. Strong pulsation over body, and in head. Strong, full, frequent pulse. Generally oversensitive, and sensitive to pain. Standing aggravates many complaints. Trembling limbs. All combine to give us a remedy broad and deep acting.

Mind

This remedy has marked anger, even to violence; producing weakness, headache, trembling, sweat, and other nervous manifestations. Anxiety at night, as if he had done a great wrong to somebody; after eating; with apprehensiveness; during fever; about the future; hypochondriacal. Cheerful, talkative and hilarious; unnatural excitement, mingled with sadness. This remedy has been used in delirium tremens.

Aversion to company and feels better when alone. He is unable to concentrate the mind, or reflect ordinary questions; can not study. Confusion of mind when trying to think, in the morning, in the evening, after eating; ameliorated by washing the face in cold water.

He is dissatisfied with everything he possesses, and with his surroundings. Very excitable in the evening. The fullness in his head makes him fear apoplexy. Fear of going into a crowd, or death, that some evil will come to him, of misfortune, of people. Forgetful. It is an excellent remedy for hysterical girls, when other symptoms agree.

His ideas are abundant, and there is unusual clearness of mind (Coff.). Again, extreme indifference to all pleasure and exciting events. Aversion to work. It might well be thought of for puerperal mania from the note,

"Sows eat up their young."

It has plenty of cerebral hyperemia, then why not madness? Irritability. Alternating moods. Morose. Obstinate. Restlessness at night in bed, tossing about much during fever. Sadness in the evening before menses. Extremely sensitive to noise. Stupefaction. Indisposed to talk. Aversion to thinking. Weeping. Aversion to mental work.

Vertigo

Vertigo in afternoon from hyperaemia of brain, during chill, on closing the eyes; tendency to fall forwards; during headache; as if intoxicated; looking downwards; during menses; with nausea; on rising up; on rising from bed. Staggering when walking, with vanishing of sight. Sensation as if the head were pushed forward while walking.

The head

feels cold and the vertex is sensitive to cold air. Hyperaemia of the brain. Constriction of the scalp. Empty sensation in the head; during menses. Sensation of fullness in the head. The hair falls out. The head feels very hot. Flushes of heat, and red face. Heat in head; in vertex; during menses.

The head feels heavy during menses. Weight in forehead and occiput. Itching of the scalp. Headache, in morning in bed, in afternoon, in evening. Cold air ameliorates the general headaches; ascending steps aggravates; blinding headache; catarrhal headaches.

Headache during chill, aggravated, on closing the eyes; cold applications ameliorate; with coryza; aggravation on coughing, after eating, excitement.

Headache during menses, worse from light and noise. Hammering headaches. Headache, aggravated from a jar. He is compelled to lie down. Lying ameliorates. Headache during menses; on motion, and on moving the head; noise. Paroxysmal pains.

Pressure ameliorates. Pulsating pains. Riding in a carriage aggravates. Sitting. Stooping; walking. Wrapping up the head brings on or aggravates the headache. Pulsating in head and temples, worse on right side. Headache with hot, red face and vomiting food.

Severe frontal headache with epistaxis, which ameliorates. Predominance of suffering on right side of forehead, aggravated in the morning on waking, evening; ameliorated in open air; aggravated on coughing. Pain above the eyes.

Pain in the occiput, on coughing, jarring; during menses. Pain in sides of head and temples, in vertex. Pain in vertex during profuse menses. Boring pain in temples. Bursting pain in head. Pressing pain in whole head, pressing outward, forehead, in frontal eminence, temples; vertex like a stone.

Soreness of the scalp, of occiput, vertex. Stitching pains in head, in forehead, over eyes occiput extending to forehead, on stooping; sides of head, temples, vertex. Tearing pains in head. General pulsation in head, aggravated by motion, and stooping; strong in forehead; in occiput on coughing, in temples, in vertex. Shocks in the head.

Eyes

Discharge of mucus from the eyes. Conjunctivitis with photophobia. Can not see on stooping. Blood vessels enlarged. Lachrymation. Half open lids.

Pain in eyes; aching, burning; sand. Stitching. Sensation of protrusion. Redness of conjunctiva, of balls and lids. Sunken eyes. Swollen lids. Sclerotics jaundiced. Vanishing of sight as from fainting.

Ears

Purulent discharge from the ear. Itching in ear. Noises in the ear; roaring, buzzing, humming, ringing and singing. Catarrh of Eustachian tubes. Inflammatory pains in the ear. Otitis media. Pain deep in the ear. Drawing. Stitching. Pain and swelling of the parotid glands. Sensitive to noise. Impaired hearing.

Nose

Catarrh of nose.

Coryza; discharge bloody. Crusts form in the nose. Discharge excoriating, purulent. When this remedy has been given on the biochemical theory in the low potencies its use has been limited to the acute stage of coryza, but when used homoeopathically this limitation does not hold good.

Who would think of limiting Ferrum or Phos. acid or Phos. to the acute or first stage of an acute, disease?

Epistaxis with coryza, during fever, or headache when the head is hot and full. Epistaxis in the morning, on blowing the nose, with cough, Sneezing.

Face

Chlorotic face. Dark circles under the eyes. Earthy, pale, sallow face. Pale lips. Red face alternating with paleness. Circumscribed redness of cheeks. Red during fever; during headache. Yellow. Liver spots. Dryness of lips.

Heat of face; flushes; while sitting; with toothache; with pains. Hippocratic face. Inflammation of the parotid. Pain in face, from inflammation of teeth, neuralgia, ameliorated by cold applications, aggravated by motion. Pulsating pains. Stitching. Perspiration of face. Sunken face.

Mouth: Swelling oedematous, from toothache.

Swollen parotids. Bleeding from mouth and gums. Tongue dark red and swollen. Tongue white. Dry mouth. Inflammation of gums, fauces, tongue and tonsils. Pains in teeth, with red, hot, swollen gums; ameliorated by holding cold water in the mouth, and aggravated by warm things. Pains in the teeth after eating. Burning of the tongue. Salivation. Taste insipid, putrid, sweetish.

Throat: Constriction of throat.

Redness in throat and tonsils. Swollen tonsils. Heat in throat. Inflammation of throat and tonsils. Lumps in throat. Pain on swallowing. Burning. Soreness.

Stomach

Appetite diminished.

Ravenous appetite without relish of food. Appetite entirely gone. Aversion to food, meat, milk. Desires sour things. Distension of stomach after eating. Eructations, after eating, better, empty, of food, foul, sour. Water-brash. Fullness after eating.

Heat in stomach. Hiccough. Indigestion. Inflammation of stomach. Nausea after eating, during pregnancy. Sudden attacks of nausea, coming at any moment; sometimes waking her out of sleep, lasting a short time. Nausea felt in the throat.

Nausea while walking. Pain in the stomach after eating. Burning in the stomach. Cramping. Pressing after eating. Soreness. Great thirst for much water. Vomiting, morning, on rising, on coughing, after drinking, after eating, during fever, during headache, during pregnancy, riding in a carriage. Violent vomiting; blood, food, green, sour. Vomiting with inflammation and pain in the stomach.

Abdomen

The abdomen is distended, and the liver and spleen are enlarged.

Much flatulence, fullness and rumbling, gurgling. The abdomen is hard. Weight in the abdomen. Inflammation of the peritoneum. This remedy is curative in many complaints of the liver. Severe pain in the bowels, in the morning, evening, night; on coughing; during diarrhoea; after eating; during menses; as if menses would come on; paroxysmal, before stool, when walking.

Pain in hypochondria, in liver. Cramping, colicky pains. Dragging; pressing. Sore bruised pains. Tension.

Constipation; difficult stool. Constriction of anus. Diarrhoea, in morning, afternoon, night, after midnight; after eating; painless. Flatus.

Rectum and anus

Hemorrhage from anus, from piles.

Haemorrhoids, external. Involuntary stools. Itching of anus. Moisture about the anus.

Pain in rectum during stool; with dysentery, and fever. Burning during stool, after stool. Tenesmus. Pain in rectum from inflammation, constant, aggravation by pressure on stomach. Prolapsus of anus, during stool. Ineffectual urging to stool. Stool is excoriating, bloody, brown, frequent, hard, lienteric, slimy, green mucus, thin, watery, green watery.

Bladder

Hemorrhage from the bladder or urethra.

Inflammation of the bladder with fever. Pain in the bladder and neck of the bladder. Tenesmus. Urging; constant; frequent; with pain in neck of bladder and end of penis, must urinate immediately, which ameliorates the pain; aggravated standing; only in the daytime.

Sudden urging. Must hasten or urine will escape. Frequent urination. Involuntary urination in the daytime, ameliorated lying down; at night in sleep; on coughing; while walking. Pain in the kidneys with fever.

Men

Gleety discharge from the urethra.

Gonorrhea with heat in urethra in inflammatory stage; scanty, watery or mucous discharge. Haemorrhage from urethra. Burning in urethra during flow of urine.

Urine albuminous, bloody, burning, cloudy on standing, dark, red, copious with headache; amoniacal, scanty; much sediment, mucus, much uric acid; high specific gravity.

Troublesome nightly erections and seminal emissions. Erections feeble, or entirely wanting. Sexual passion increased, or entirely absent.

Women

In the woman there is slight change of symptoms; predisposition to abort, aversion to coition, or desire much dimished.

Leucorrhoea, excoriating, before menses, milky, thin, white.

Chlorotic girls. Menses absent. Menstrual flow bright red, clotted, copious, dark, too frequent, intermittent, irregular, late, painful, pale, protracted, scanty, suppressed, thin, watery.

Uterine haemorrhage. Pain in vagina during coition. Dysmenorrhoea with fever and red face. Bearing down in pelvis with dull pain in ovarian region. Prolapsus of the uterus. Sterility. Sensitive vagina.

Respiration

Acute catarrh of air passages.

Inflammation of the larynx, with mucus, raw feeling and rattling in chest, fever, red face. Mucus in larynx and trachea. Dryness in larynx. Burning in larynx. Roughness in larynx. Hoarseness during coryza. Voice lost, weak.

Respiration asthmatic. Spasmodic asthma. Dyspnea, evening, night, with cough, while lying. Rattling. Short. Suffocative respiration. Stitching in chest on deep inspiration.

Cough

Cough, daytime, morning on rising, evening, night; cold air aggravates; asthmatic; acute.

Short, spasmodic and very painful cough. Deep breathing aggravates. Constant cough, with coryza. Dry cough. Cough after eating; exhausting; with fever. Hacking cough. Cough from irritation in larynx and trachea. Loose cough. Lying aggravates cough. Cough in bed, Paroxysmal cough. Rattling cough.

Spasmodic. Talking aggravates. Tickling. Tormenting cough, aggravated on walking. Whooping cough. Touching larynx on bending head over. Increased cough from taking cold in phthisis.

Expectoration in daytime, morning, bloody, bright red, dark, copious, difficult, frothy, greenish, mucus, offensive, purulent, scanty, putrid, thick, viscid, whitish, yellow.

Anxiety in chest and region of the heart. Catarrh of the chest. Congestion of the chest. Constriction of chest and heart. Sensation of fullness. Haemorrhage of lungs. Heat.

Inflammation of bronchial tubes, lungs and pleura; oppression of chest. Pain in chest during cough, during inspiration; in sides of chest, during deep inspiration. Soreness in chest on coughing. Stitching in chest, in sides of chest, on coughing.

Right sided pleuritis. Stitches, aggravated coughing and breathing. Palpitation at night with anxiety, on exertion and motion, while sitting, walking rapidly. This is a valuable temporary remedy in the acute colds during the course of phthisis. In acute phthisis. Spasms of the chest with suffocation, fever and red face. Rheumatism in the upper thorax.

Back

Coldness in back.

"Crick" in the neck or back. Pain in the back at night, during menses, on motion, rising from a seat, while sitting, while walking, cervical region, between shoulders, lumbar region during menses. Aching. Stitching pains in back. Tearing. Stiffness in back of neck.

Cold extremities. Cold hands and feet. Cold feet evening in bed. Cold feet during headache. Contraction of fingers, result of rheumatism. Cramps in thighs, legs, calve, feet.

Limbs

Blueness of linger nails.

Hot hands, palms; soles. Heaviness of the limbs, upper limbs; legs. Inflammation of joints. Numbness of hands and fingers, legs and feet. Rheumatic pain in right shoulder and upper arm, of a drawing, tearing character, aggravated by violent motion of arm, ameliorated by gentle motion ( Ferr.), part sensitive to touch.

Deadness of the right hand, could not lift with the hand. Acute rheumatism of right shoulder joint, red, swollen and sore.

Rheumatism of right deltoid. Rheumatism of wrist. Rheumatism of knee joint with fever. Gouty affection of joints. Sciatica. Pain in thighs. Sore bruised pain in limbs. Stitching pains in limbs, upper limbs; shoulders; hips.

Tearing pain in shoulders, upper arms, hips. Shooting pains in both knees, extending down legs, with fever. Restless legs. Stiffness of lower limbs, of feet. Swollen joints, upper limbs, forearm, hands; feet.

Dropsical and rheumatic swelling. Great weakness of limbs, of joints, knees, legs. The rheumatism goes from joint to joint, aggravated by the slightest motion.

Sleep

There are many dreams, anxious, confused, of failing, nightmare, vivid.

Late falling asleep. Restless sleep. Sleepiness in the evening. Sleepless before midnight, with sleepiness. After once waking up he is sleepless.

Chill afternoons; 1 P.M. daily. Chill at night in bed. Chilliness. Shaking chill. The fever predominates. Fever at any time with inflammation of organs, joints, or mucus membranes. Fever without chill.

Dry heat with thirst. Flushes of heat. Hectic fever and night sweats. Internal heat. Remittent fever. Heat after sleep. Perspiration in daytime, morning; clammy; with great weakness, on slight exertion, following the fever; copious; during sleep.

Skin

Burning skin.

Coldness. Desquamation. Pale, red skin. Dry skin, Formication. Great sensitiveness of the skin. Skin feels sore. Ulceration. Small withered warts.