Fluoricum Acidum fl-ac.

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

FIBROUS TISSUES: VEINS. Skin. Bones. Mastoid.

Worse

HEAT; of room. Night. Alcohol. Sour foods.

Better

COOL BATHING. Rapid motion. Short sleep. Bending head back. Eating.

General

Always too hot; wants to bathe in cold water. Pale, miserable, cachectic, flabby and broken down. Slow deeply destructive effects. Puffy, indurated or fistulous tissues. Palmar abscess. Felon. Caries. Bed - sores. Ulcers. Œdema. Secondary syphilis. Thin, foul, acrid or salty discharges; that cause itching.

Particulars

Necessity to be always in the move. Impulse to walk fast. Melancholy. Lecherousness. Stunning headache; > urinating. Brittle, tousy hair. As of a cold wind in eye. Lachrymal stricture. Deafness, > bending head back. Puffy glabella. Thin enamel. Teeth decay rapidly; < at roots. Fissured tongue. Gnawing hunger; for pungent or cold things. Stale eructations. Itching or burning at anus. Upward drawing in urethra (down-Merc.). Profuse, acrid leucorrhœa. Sexual erethism. Œdema of scrotum. Distorted nails. Varicose veins; varicocele. Dry, harsh, itching or cracked skin; seeming to emit a hot vapor. Scars surrounded by pimples. Keloid. Ebullitions of heat; with pains in bones. Acrid, eroding sweat; excites itching. Oily, pungent sweat on genital. Sweat on hands and feet.

Related

Complementary: Sil. Related: Calc-sul. Pul. Sul-ac.

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

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Keynote

Complaints of old age, or of premature old age; in syphilitic mercurial dyscrasia; young people look old. Increased ability to exercise without danger (Coca.); is less affected by excessive heat of summer or cold of winter. Old cicatrices become red around edges, and threaten to become open ulcers (Caust., Graph.). Varicose veins and ulcers, obstinate, long standing cases, in women who have borne many children. Caries and necrosis, especially of long bones, psoric or syphilitic, abuse of mercury or silica (Angus.). Naenuv, flat, of children (r. temple); capillary aneurism (compare, Cal. fl., Tub.). Ulcers: red edges and vesicles; decubitus; copious discharge; < from warmth, > from cold; violent pains, like streaks of lightning, confined to a small spot. Rapid caries of teeth; fistula dentalis or lachrymalis; exostosis of bone so face (Hekla).

Relations

Complementary: Coca, Sil. Follows well: after, Ars. in ascites of drunkards; after, Kali c. in hip disease; after, Coff., Staph. in sensitive teeth; after, Phos. ac. in diabetes; after Sil., Symph. in bone diseases; after, Spong. in goitre.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

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General

This remedy affects the right ear; teeth of the left side; left hypochondrium: left side of the abdomen; right side, and nape of the neck; right side of the back. Fistula lachrymalis.

Remedies following

Graphit., Nitr. ac.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Hydrofluoric Acid

General

Especially adapted to chronic diseases with syphilitic and mercurial history. Glabella region bloated. Acts especially upon lower tissues, and indicated in deep, destructive processes, bedsores, ulcerations, varicose veins, and ulcers. Patient is compelled to move about energetically. Complaints of old age, or the prematurely aged, with weak, distended blood vessels. Hob-nailed liver of alcoholics. Goitre (Dr. Woakes) (Kali fluoride produced bronchocele in dogs). Early decay of teeth. Old cases of nightly fevers, coming on periodically.

Mind

Indifference towards those loved best; inability to realize responsibility; buoyancy. Mentally elated and gay.

Head

Alopecia. Caries of skin. Pressure on sides of head from within outward. Caries of ossicles and mastoid, with copious discharge; worse warmth (Silica; worse cold). Exostosis.

Eyes

Sensation as of wind blowing through eyes. Lachrymal fistula. Violent itching of inner canthus.

Nose

Chronic nasal catarrh with ulceration of the septum; nose obstructed and dull heavy pain in forehead.

Mouth

Dental fistula, with persistent bloody, salty discharge. Syphilitic ulceration of throat, which is very sensitive to cold. Teeth feel warm. Affects teeth and bones of upper jaw.

Stomach

Heaviness and weight in stomach heat in stomach before meals. Sour eructations. Averse to coffee, wants fancy dishes. Stomach symptoms relieved by tight clothes. Desire for highly seasoned food. Craves cold water, hungry. Warm drinks produce diarrhœa.

Abdomen

Soreness over liver. Flatus and eructations.

Stool

Bilious diarrhœa, with aversion to coffee.

Male

Burning in urethra. Sexual passion and desire increased with erections at night, during sleep. Swollen scrotum.

Urine

Scanty, dark. In dropsy, produces frequent and free discharge, with great relief.

Female

Menses copious, frequent, too long. Ulceration of uterus and os. Copious and excoriating leucorrhœa. Nymphomania.

Respiratory

Oppression of chest, difficult breathing, great dyspnœa. Hydrothorax.

Extremities

Inflammation of joints of fingers. Feeling as of a splinter under nail. Nails crumble. Caries and necrosis, especially of long bones. Coccygodynia. Ulcer over tibia.

Skin

Varicose veins. Nævi. Ulcers; red edges and vesicles. Decubitus; worse, warmth. Syphilitic rupia. Itching of cicatrices. Feels as if burning vapor were emitted from pores. Itching especially of the orifices, and in spots, worse warmth. Nails grow rapidly. Periosteal abscess. Profuse, sour, offensive perspiration. Syphilitic tubercles. Dropsy of limbs in old, feeble constitutions. Atony of capillary and venous system. Tissues bloated.

Modalities

Worse, warmth, morning, warm drinks. Better, cold while walking.

Relationship

Compare: Thiosinaminum (action on cicatricial tissues; adhesions, strictures, tumors); Calc fluor; Silica.

Complementary: Silica.

Dose

Sixth to thirtieth potency.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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Leaders

Diseases of the bones, especially the long bones, > from cold. Silicea, > by warmth.

Text Book of Materia Medica

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Mind and Disposition

Disposition to be exceedingly anxious, causing perspiration. Sensation as if danger menaced him. Forgetfulness of dates and of his common employment.

Head

Vertigo with sickness of the stomach. Congestion of blood to the head -(forehead). Dulness (towards night) in the occiput. Sensation of numbness in the forehead. Heaviness above the eyes, with nausea, worse on motion. Compressing pain in the temples. Sensation of weakness, like numbness in the head (and hands). Itching of the head. Baldness.

Eyes

Violent itching in the canthi. Burning in the eyes. Pressure, as if it were behind the right eyeball. Fistula lachrymalis. Sensation of sand in the eyes, or as if fresh wind was blowing on them.

Ears

Itching in the ears.

Nose

Red, swollen, inflamed nose. Obstruction of the nose. Fluent coryza.

Face

Heat in the face ; desire to wash it with cold water. Perspiration particularly in the face.

Mouth and Throat

The teeth feel warm (left side, upper jaw). Fistula (dentalis) (near the right eye-tooth) with great sensitiveness of the upper jaw to the touch. Sensation of roughness (lower incisor teeth). Carious teeth. Acrid, foul taste from the roots of the teeth. Increased flow of saliva (with sneezing) (with pricking of the tongue). In the morning the mouth and teeth are full of mucus. The posterior nares feel expanded during a walk. Constriction in the throat with difficult deglutition ; in the morning hawking up of much phlegm which is mixed with blood.

Stomach and Abdomen

Aversion to coffee. Eructation and discharge of flatulency. Sickness of the stomach, with general heat. Nausea, eructations and lassitude. Pressure from weight in the stomach, between meals. Heat in the stomach before the meal. Pinching in the region of the spleen, (extending to the hips) (11 A.M.). Pressing pain in the region of the spleen and the left arm. Sensation of emptiness in the region of the navel, with desire to draw a deep breath ; relieved by bandaging and eating.

Stool and Anus

Soft small stools in the morning after drinking Coffee, and again in the evening with protrusion of the hæmorrhoids. Watery stools in the morning after rising. Frequent passages of flatus and eructations (with construction of the anus). Stool pappy, yellowish brown, fetid, with tenesmus and prolapsus ani. Protrusion of the anus during an evacuation. Itching within and around the anus, in the perineum (evening).

Urinary Organs

Very frequent discharge of light-colored urine (thirst increased). Whitish purple-colored sediment in the urine.

Genital Organs

Men. Increased sexual desire (in old men) with violent erections all night. Sensation of fulness in both spermatic cords. Women. Menstruation too early and too copious ; the discharge is ; thick and coagulated.

Chest

Itching, redness, swelling of (right) nipple. Itching on the left breast and right side of the nose.

Respiratory Organs

Itching in the larynx which causes him to hawk and to swallow. Itches under the ribs (left side). Difficult respiration (afternoon and evening). During respiration wheezing (Hydrothorax). In the heart sensation of soreness, jerking.

Back

Rigidity in the nape of the neck. Pain (headache) from the nape of the neck extending through the centre of the head to the forehead. Bruised pain in the os sacrum.

Extremities

Upper. Rheumatic pains in the left arm from the shoulder to the elbow, with lameness. Trembling in the biceps and triceps of the right arm. Pain in the right shoulder-joint. Slight lameness in the right arm (has some difficulty in writing). The left forearm and hand asleep (in the morning). Numbness and lameness in the left forearm and hand (morning). Weakness and numbness of the hands and head. Constant redress of the hands especially the palms of the hands. The nails grow more rapidly. Acute prickings, as with needles, in the fingers. Panaritium. Lower. Acute stitches in the right hip-bone. Lameness in the left hip. Pain in the right knee-joint. The left leg falls easily asleep. Burning stitches under the soles of the feet (in the morning). Soreness of all his corns.

Sleep

Sleeplessness without inclination to sleep ; a short sleep suffices and refreshes him.

Fever

General heat with nausea from the least movement, with inclination to uncover oneself and to wash oneself with cold water. Perspiration, clammy, acid, disagreeably smelling, principally on the upper part of the body, especially on moving in the afternoon and evening, with itching. The perspiration favors soreness of the skin and decubitus. Less susceptible to the summer heat.

Generalities

Limbs ; go to sleep, although he does ; not lie on them. Violent jerking burning pains ; confined to a small spot. Increased ability to exercise his muscles without fatigue, regardless of the most excessive heat in summer or cold in winter.

Skin

Old cicatrices become red around the edges ; covered or surrounded by itching vesicles, or they itch violently. Burning pains on small spots of the skin. Itching of the skin (in the month of March). Elevated red blotches. Red, round, elevated blood vesicles, resembling little flesh warts. Varicose veins on the (left) leg. Caries and necrosis. Ulcerations ; especially after the abuse of Silicea.

Conditions

The extreme heat of the summer and the cold of the winter affect him less and he is able to endure more fatigue ; tires less easily. Carious ulcers becoming worse from too large or too frequently repeated doses of Silicia are much improved by Fluor. ar.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

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General

Hydrofluoric acid. H F. Made by distilling pure fluorspar (Calcium fluoride) in a state of fine powder with sulphuric acid. Solution.

Clinical

Abscess . Alcoholism. Alopecia. Apoplexy. Bone, affections of . Brain, atrophy of. Cicatrix . Coccygodynia. Decubitus. Dropsies. Eyes, affections of. Fistula . Gleet. Goître . Gonorrhœa. Hæmorrhoids. Hair, falling out. Hands, perspiring . Headache. Hydrocele. Liver, induration of. Locomotor ataxy . Nævus. Nose, inflammation of . Nymphomania. Otorrhœa. Peritonitis. Perspiration. Pityriasis . Satyriasis. Splenalgia. Suppuration. Syphilis . Teeth, defective. Toothache. Tongue, ulceration of . Varicosis. Veins, diseased . Whitlow.

Characteristics

Fluoric acid acts on the lower tissues of the body much like Silica , which it follows and precedes well. It is useful after the abuse of Silica . The modalities of the two are different; Fluor. ac . having > from cold applications. It acts on the bones, especially the long bones, causing caries and necrosis, and favours the expulsion of the necrosed part. Fistulæ, rectal, dental, and lachrymal come within its sphere. Old cicatrices become redder and itch. Small red spots here and there, < by warmth, > in cool place. Red blotches on body which tend to desquamate. Nails grow rapidly. Teeth are deficient in enamel; black, rough, unsightly-looking. Increased sensitiveness of vision and hearing. According to Guernsey Fluor. ac . affects the right ear; left teeth; left hypochondrium; left side of abdomen; right side and nape of neck; right side of back. T. F. Allen has recorded an experience ( N. A. J. H ., 1886, p. 288) showing the applicability of Fl. ac . in whitlow. A lady spilled some of the acid on her hand and though treated at once with turpentine a few spots escaped on one hand, and these soon gave her great pain, intensely pulsating. The pulsations involved the tip of the thumb especially, though this had not been touched by the acid. It was not red like the spots touched by the acid but was sore to touch, and when pressed there was a sensation as of a splinter under the nail and in the cellular tissue. This lasted some days. The whole hand was swollen and hot, > in cool, open air. In a workman whose hand was exposed to the fumes of the acid there was intense throbbing pains especially in the thumb; suppuration occurred later and was very slow to heal. According to McLachlan, the left hand is affected rather than the right and the pus tends to point on the dorsum of the finger. > From cold washing distinguishes it from Silic. Fl. ac . is also distinguished from Sil . by the general > from walking in the open air. "A constant, irresistible desire to walk in the open air; it does not fatigue," is characteristics of Fl. ac . Hunger predominates. There is < from wine like Zinc .; but also < from red wine, which is peculiar to Fluor. ac . Abdominal symptoms > by tightening clothes ( Nat. mur . ─ opp. Lach., Hep .). Peculiar symptoms are: Increased ability to exercise his muscles without fatigue. Is less affected by excessive heat in summer or cold in winter. Sensation as of a cold wind blowing under lids, even in warm room; as of air passing down from shoulder-joint to fingers. Numbness of limbs even when not lain on. Motion < . Bending backward, and bending head back > . Cold drinks < toothache; washing with cold water > . Warm drink < diarrhœa. Symptoms seem to go from below upward. Suited to complaints of old age, and premature old age; weakly constitutions, sallow skin, emaciation.

Relations

Compatible: after Arsen. in ascites from gin-drinker's liver after Kali c. in hip disease; after Phos. ac. in diabetes. Compare: Coca (fatigue); Coffea (toothache); Citr. ac. and Sep. (aversion to one's family); Oxal. ac. (diarrhœa < from coffee); Rhus t. and Ruta (coccygodynia); Silic. (fistula, onychia, bone diseases, coccygodynia); Brom., Iod., Spongia and Kali c. (goître); Staph. (teeth). Followed well by: Sulph., Nit. ac.

Mind

Uncommon buoyancy of mind; fears nothing and is self-satisfied. ─ Disposition to be exceedingly anxious, causing perspiration. ─ Aversion to his own family. ─ Sensation as if danger menaced him. ─ Forgetfulness of dates and of his common employment.

Head

Vertigo with sickness of the stomach. ─ Congestion of blood to the head (forehead). ─ Dulness (towards night) in the occiput. ─ Dulness and pressure in occiput. ─ Sensation of numbness in the forehead. ─ Heaviness above the eyes, with nausea, < on motion. ─ Compressing pain in the temples. ─ Headache > by profuse flow of urine. ─ Severe pressing pain in temples, from within outward. ─ Pain along the sutures. ─ Caries of the temporal bones. ─ Sensation of weakness, like numbness in the head (and hands). ─ Itching of the head. ─ Falling off of the hair; the new hair is dry and breaks off. ─ Baldness.

Eyes

Violent itching in the canthi. ─ Burning in the eyes. ─ Pressure, as if it were behind r. eyeball. ─ Fistula lachrymalis. ─ Sensation of sand in the eyes, or as if a fresh wind was blowing on them.

Ears

Intolerable itching in both ears. ─ Singing in ears. ─ Hardness of hearing > bending head back.

Nose

Red, swollen, inflamed nose. ─ Obstruction of the nose. ─ Fluent coryza.

Face

Heat in the face; desire to wash it with cold water. ─ Perspiration, esp. in the face. ─ Crusta lactea, dry, scaly, itches very much. ─ Tubercles in skin of forehead and face, suppurating; syphilis infantum.

Mouth

The teeth feel warm (l. upper jaw). ─ Fistula (near the r. eye-tooth) with great sensitiveness of the upper jaw to the touch. ─ Sensation of roughness (lower incisor teeth). ─ Toothache < from cold drink; or > until water becomes warm in mouth. ─ Rapid caries of teeth. ─ Acrid, foul taste from the roots of the teeth. ─ Increased flow of saliva. ─ Increased flow of saliva (with sneezing; with pricking of the tongue.). ─ In the morning the mouth and teeth are full of mucus. ─ The posterior nares feel expanded during a walk. ─ Tongue deeply and widely fissured in all directions, with a large, deep phagedenic-looking ulcer in the centre.

Throat

Throat peculiarly sensitive to cold, slightest exposure resulting in inflammation, with increase of pain and impeded deglutition. ─ Constriction in the throat with difficult deglutition; in the morning hawking up of much phlegm which is mixed with blood.

Stomach

Hunger predominates. ─ Thirst, craves refreshing drinks. ─ Aversion to coffee. ─ Eructation and discharge of flatulency. ─ Frequent eructations. ─ Nausea, eructations, and lassitude. ─ Sickness of the stomach, with general heat. ─ Fulness and pressure in epigastrium. ─ Pressure from weight in the stomach, between meals. ─ Heat in the stomach before the meal. ─ Bilious vomiting after slight errors in diet, with increased alvine discharges, preceded by tormina.

Abdomen

Frequent passages of flatus and belchings, which relieve. ─ Great tension and dropsical swelling of the abdomen. ─ Pinching in the region of the spleen (extending to the hips), 11 a.m. ─ Pressing pain in the region of the spleen and l. arm. ─ Sensation of emptiness in the region of the navel, with desire to draw a deep breath; > by bandaging and eating.

Stool and Anus

Soft small stools in the morning after drinking coffee, and again in the evening, with protrusion of the hæmorrhoids. ─ Watery stools in the morning after rising. ─ Frequent passages of flatus and eructations (with constriction of the anus). ─ Stool pappy, yellowish-brown, fetid, with tenesmus and prolapsus ani. ─ Protrusion of the anus during an evacuation. ─ Constipation; stools infrequent and hard. ─ Itching within and around the anus, in the perineum (evening).

Urinary Organs

Free discharge of light-coloured urine, affording relief. ─ Very frequent discharge of light-coloured urine (thirst increased). ─ Whitish purple-coloured sediment in the urine. ─ Intolerable burning in the urethra during and after urination.

Male Sexual Organs

Increased sexual desire (in old men) with violent erections all night. ─ Sensation of fulness in both spermatic cords. ─ Highly excessive enjoyment and pleasure during coition. ─ Seminal discharge tardy but free, and without bad after-feeling.

Female Sexual Organs

Menstruation too early and too copious; the discharge is thick and coagulated. ─ Acrid leucorrhœa; itching.

Respiratory Organs

Itching in the larynx, which causes him to hawk and to swallow. ─ Short frequent cough, mostly dry, white, frothy sputa. ─ Itching under the ribs (l.). ─ Difficult respiration (afternoon and evening). ─ During respiration wheezing (hydrothorax).

Chest

Oppression of chest, > bending backwards. ─ Nipples itching, sore, cracked. ─ Itching, redness, swelling of (r.) nipple. ─ Itching on l. breast and r. side of nose.

Heart

In the heart sensation of soreness, jerking.

Neck and Back

Rigidity in the nape of the neck. ─ Pain (headache) from the nape of the neck extending through the centre of the head to the forehead. ─ Bruised pain in the os sacrum and loins, > by stretching, bending backwards, and by pressure.

Upper Limbs

Pain in r. shoulder-joint. ─ Pain in r. shoulder-joint, extending toward fingers, with sensation as if air were passing down. ─ Trembling in the biceps and triceps of r. arm. ─ Slight lameness in r. arm (has some difficulty in writing). ─ Rheumatic pains in l. arm from shoulder to elbow, with lameness. ─ The l. forearm and hand asleep (in the morning). ─ Numbness and lameness in l. forearm and hand (morning). ─ Pain in l. index finger; the whole finger is painful internally. ─ Weakness and numbness of the hands and head. ─ Constant redness of the hands, esp. the palms of the hands. ─ Acute prickings, as with needles, in the fingers. ─ Thumbs and fingers inflamed, with acute throbbing pains. ─ Sensation of a splinter under nail. ─ The nails grow more rapidly. ─ Brittleness of the nails. ─ Panaritium; also simple onychia.

Lower Limbs

Œdematous swelling up to the abdomen. ─ Varicose veins. ─ Acute stitches in r. hip-bone. ─ Lameness in l. hip. ─ Pain in r. knee-joint. ─ The l. leg falls easily asleep. ─ Burning stitches under the soles of the feet (in the morning). ─ Feet hot and burn. ─ Soreness between the toes. ─ Soreness of all his corns.

Generalities

Lassitude. ─ Loss of strength. ─ Limbs go to sleep, although he does not lie on them. ─ Increased ability to exercise his muscles without fatigue, regardless of the most excessive heat in summer or cold in winter. ─ Violent jerking, burning pains, confined to a small spot.

Skin

Old cicatrices become red around the edges, covered or surrounded by itching vesicles, or they itch violently. ─ Burning pains on small spots of the skin. ─ Itching of the skin (in the month of March). ─ Elevated red blotches. ─ Red, round, elevated blood vesicles, resembling little flesh-warts. ─ Varicose veins on the (l.) leg. ─ Caries and necrosis. ─ Ulcerations, esp. after the abuse of Silica.

Sleep

Sleeplessness without inclination to sleep; a short sleep suffices and refreshes him. ─ Drowsy and sleepy in the early evening. ─ Dreams toward morning.

Fever

General heat with nausea. ─ General heat with nausea from the least movement, with inclination to uncover oneself and to wash oneself with cold water. ─ Perspiration, clammy, acid, disagreeably smelling, principally on the upper part of the body, esp. on moving in the afternoon and evening, with itching. ─ The perspiration favours soreness of the skin and decubitus. ─ Less susceptible to the summer heat.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

Mind

Great loss of memory ; forgets almost everything.
Forgetfulness every evening ; good memory in the morning.
Forgetfulness : in his daily employment ; of dates ; on making notes he mistakes "right" for "left".
Mental weakness. θ Ascites.
Mental excitability.
Feeling of indifference towards those he loves best, has no objection to their presence but does not care to converse with them, yet it strangers or mere acquaintances come in will enter into animated conversation.
Aversion to his own family, bordering on insanity.
Gay disposition, everything is satisfactory.
Excessive hilarity ; great buoyancy of mind, happy, serene.
Greatly depressed in mind. θ Ascites.
Disposition to be exceedingly anxious, causing sweat ; > in morning than in evening.
Sensation as if danger menaced him, but without fear.
Felt certain that something dreadful would happen, with dulness in head, mostly in front, left side, extending into middle of brain.
Fear of apoplexy.
Anxiety. θ Ascites.
Irritable, disagreeable mood.
Moodiness in evening, > in morning.
Very ill humored. θ Ascites.
Discontent and excessive ill humor followed by indifference and forgetfulness, and finally by perfect contentment and uncommonly gay disposition of mind.

Sensorium

Congestion of blood mostly to forehead, with dulness in occiput toward night.
Feeling in brain as if on the verge of being struck with apoplexy.
Vertigo with sickness of stomach.
A kind of sinking weakness, has to sit down.
Feeling as if in an earthquake.
Sensation of weakness, like numbness in head, same in hands.

Inner head

Sensation of numbness in forehead.
Congestion of blood to forehead with dulness in occiput towards night.
Heaviness above eyes, with nausea, < by motion.
Severe pressing in both temples, from within outward.
Compressing pain in temples.
Slight pain in right temple, five hours after in left.
Headache in sutures behind ears at 3 P. M.
Headache accompanied by congestion of blood to head, sensation of numbness, with heaviness and compressive pains.
Headache every morning > by micturition.
Sensation of weakness, like numbness in head.
Numbness in head and hands.
Dull, heavy headache. θ Dyspepsia.
Congestive headache.
Dulness and pressure in occiput.
Dullness of occiput ; towards right in occiput.
Pressure on both sides of occiput.
Headache in occiput, with fulness in head.
Headache from nape, extending through centre of head to forehead ; also dull feeling in head.
Atrophy of brain.

Outer head

Sensation of numbness in forehead.
Scalp sensitive.
Pain along the sutures.
Itching of head ; baldness.
Congestion of blood to scalp ; hair becomes dry, breaks off and falls out.
Falling off of hair.
Hair falling out after typhoid fever.
Alopecia areata.
Must comb hair frequently, it mats so at the end. θ Pica polonica.
Scaly eruptions on head.
Crusta lactea, dry, scaly, itches very much, makes bald.
Caries of temporal bone, discharging offensive-smelling pus periodically ; whole left side of head retarded in growth, left eye seems smaller.
Syphilitic caries of bones of skull.

Sight and eyes

Clearness of sight and increased power of vision.
Pleasant sensation as though the eyelids were opened wider, or eyes more prominent, whereby circle of vision becomes enlarged, the sight clearer and he feels a luxurious enjoyment in looking at the same things he is accustomed to see every day.
Retinal excitement with red photopsia.
Flashes like lightning before the eyes.
Amaurosis ; dreaming of fire.
Dark spot before eye, < from reading.
Heaviness above eyes, with nausea ; < on motion.
Pressure, as if behind right ball.
Burning in the eyes.
Pain in left inner canthus.
Sensation as of a cold wind blowing under lids, even in a warm room, must tie them up and keep them warm.
Sensation of sand in eyes, or as if a fresh wind was blowing on them.
Chronic ophthalmia ; feeling of sand in eye, must wink constantly.
Feeling as if he must wink, as if something was in eye that could be rubbed out.
Increased lachrymation.
Itching in canthi.
Fistula lachrymalis.
Lachrymal fistula on left side, of one year's duration ; a clear yellow scab on cheek near inner angle, which is but slightly red and painful to pressure ; every three or four days it begins to itch and grow moist, then heals again ; sometimes painful before it opens.

Hearing and ears

Great sensitiveness in morning to little noises.
Hardness of hearing with rheumatism ; constant disagreeable ringing in ears and sensation of numbness in bones of face around right ear.
Hardness of hearing > on bending head back ; falling out of hair with sensitiveness of scalp.
Difficulty in hearing human voices ; numbness of bones around ear.
Singing in ears.
Ringing in ears and numb feeling in bones of face near r. ear.
Intolerable itching in both ears.
Itching momentarily > from scratching, but followed by burning.
Otorrhœa ; discharge copious.
Otitis externa ; chronic diffuse otitis.

Smell and nose

Fluent coryza.
Cold water produces coryza.
Posterior nares feel expanded, during a walk.
Chronic nasitis, with pain ; chronic obstruction of nose, with dull, heavy pain in forehead, followed by semi-fluent coryza.
Chronic nasal catarrh, with ulceration of septum.
Pimple on left wing of nose perforated and left an opening as large as a pea.
Pimple with extensive inflamed base on top of nose.
Red, swollen, inflamed nose. θ Rhinitis.
Itching on right side of nose.

Upper face

Pale face.
Heat in face, wants to wash it with cold water.
Perspiration, particularly in face.
Tubercles in skin of forehead and face, suppurating. θ Syphilis infantum.

Lower face

Right lower jaw swollen.

Teeth and gums

The teeth feel warm (felt side, upper jaw).
Heaviness of the teeth.
Sensation of roughness (lower incisor teeth).
Great sensitiveness of teeth ; cannot be plugged.
Toothache < from cold drink ; or > until water becomes warm in mouth.
Mouth and teeth coated with mucus in morning.
Violent pains at root of right eye-tooth, with frequent discharge of pus.
Fistula at root of tooth, or of gum ; teeth exceedingly sensitive.
Acrid, foul taste from roots of teeth.
Rapid caries of teeth.
The teeth come late in children ; wisdom teeth come late.
Great sensitiveness to pressure on gum over right eye-tooth. θ Fistula dentalis.

Taste, speech, tongue

Acrid foul taste from roots of teeth.
Tongue always more or less tender, feeling of rigidity in it, with restricted mobility. θ Secondary syphilis.
Tongue painful when talking.
Tingling and numbness of tongue.
Tongue vivid red at tip and edges, coated yellow in centre.
Tongue whitish and dry. θ Ascites.
Tongue deeply and widely fissured in all directions, with a large, deep, phagedenic looking ulcer in centre.
Ulcer on and under tongue.

Inner mouth

Increased flow of saliva ; with sneezing ; with pricking of tongue.
Mouth and teeth are full of mucus, in morning.
Teeth and mouth covered with dark mucus. θ Typhus.
Viscid, tasteless saliva in mouth ; before stool ; at night on waking.
A very painful little ulcer in back part of mouth, on right side, in angle of upper and lower jaw ; very troublesome during mastication and otherwise.

Palate and throat

Constriction in throat with difficult deglutition ; in the morning, hawking of phlegm mixed with blood.
Red blotches, size of half pea, over palate and sides of cheeks, bleeding easily.
Tonsils, uvula and soft palate of a livid red color, and greatly swollen.
Excessive suffering on swallowing or talking.
Sleep disturbed by accumulation of mucus in fauces.
Throat irritable and peculiarly sensitive to cold, slightest exposure resulting in inflammatory action with increase of pain and impeded deglutition.
Syphilitic affections of fauces and tongue.
Soft palate and uvula intensely red and much tumefied ; breath fetid, voice nasal, articulation indistinct and unintelligible. θ Secondary syphilis.
Ulceration of uvula a portion of which seems only attached by a thread ; ulceration of nose ; fetid smell from nose and mouth ; hardness of hearing ; stubborn exanthema.
Chronic catarrhal inflammation of pharynx and fauces, with ptyalism : especially if syphilitic.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Hunger predominates ; great appetite in evening.
Loss of appetite. θ Dropsy.
Speedy satiety.
Thirst ; craves refreshing drinks.
Craves cold water, and is continually hungry.
Desire : for highly seasoned and piquant things ; for wine.
Aversion to coffee.

Eating and drinking

Complaints worse from sweet things and from coffee.
After eating salmon. θ Bilious diarrhœa.
During the day, mainly soon after drinking, especially warm drinks, such as tea, cocoa, beef tea, bilious diarrhœa.
Sweat lessened after meals.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Nausea and eructations, with lassitude.
Heartburn and offensive smelling eructations.
Frequent eructations and discharge of flatulency.
Constant nausea, with heat, vertigo and headache.
Sickness and nausea, combined with general heat and heat at stomach.
Bilious vomiting : after slight errors in diet ; with increased alvine discharges, preceded by tormina. θ Chronic diarrhœa.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Feeling of fulness and pressure in epigastrium. θ Dropsy.
Feeling of weight in stomach between meals.
Heat in stomach before a meal.
Chronic gastritis.

Hypochondria

Sensitive to pressure in right hypochondrium.
Pressing pain in region of spleen and left arm.
Pinching in region of spleen.
Itching under ribs left side.
Liver very sensitive to pressure ; ulceration of liver ; ascites from hepatic induration and portal congestion.
Skin pale, grayish, dry ; emaciation ; great weakness, can hardly walk across room ; mind impaired ; anorexia ; tongue white and dry ; fulness and pressure in epigastrium ; great tension and dropsical swelling of abdomen ;
stools tardy and hard ; scanty, dark-red urine ; painful urination ; scrotum swollen as large as a child's head ; penis S shaped and terribly swollen, prepuce so œdematous as to completely hide orifice of urethra ; dry cough with occasional frothy
expectoration ; dyspnœa, can only lie in an elevated position ; anxiety ; sleeps little and but for a short time ; violent, unquenchable thirst ; longs for refreshing drinks ; great œdema of lower limbs, extending from feet to abdomen ; great depression
of spirits ; pulse small and frequent ; speech listless ; liver enlarged and indurated, particularly left lobe. θ Affection of liver with dropsy.

Abdomen and loins

Sensation of distension from flatulence before stool.
Sensation of emptiness in region of navel, with desire to take a deep breath ; > from bandaging or tightening the clothing.
Burning, pinching pain in stomach and about navel.
Pinching in region of spleen, extending to hip.
Pain from left side of chest to groin, < by deep inspiration, particularly in groin and back, like a stitch.
Great tension and dropsical swelling of abdomen.
Ascites from hepatic disorder.
Ascites from enlarged and indurated liver, in consequence of drinking whisky.

Stools and rectum

Frequent passage of flatus, and belching, with constriction of anus.
Watery diarrhœa in morning after rising, protrusion of anus during stool.
Offensive, watery, yellowish-brown stools, in the morning after coffee.
Soft, small stools in morning after drinking coffee, and again in evening, with protrusion of hemorrhoids.
Stools pappy, yellowish-brown, fetid, with tenesmus and prolapsus ani.
Very loose, bright yellow stools, with a quantity of mucus, preceded by considerable griping.
Bilious diarrhœa < during day, soon after drinking, especially warm drinks.
Diarrhœa and bilious vomiting.
Before stool : viscid, tasteless saliva in mouth ; burning, pinching pain in stomach and about navel ; sensation of distension from flatulence.
During stool : protrusion of hemorrhoids ; prolapsus ani ; pain about navel.
After stool : tenesmus ; abdominal pain.
Aggravation : in morning ; after coffee ; on alternate days, a later hour each time.
Tongue vivid red at tip and margins and coated yellow in centre ; appetite good ; evacuations never less than twice a day of liquid, bilious fecal matter, intermixed with frothy mucus ; no griping and no tenesmus ; some sensibility to external
pressure in right hypochondrium ; face pale ; muscles soft and flabby ; bilious vomiting after trivial errors in diet, with aggravation of the diarrhœa, stools on such occasions being preceded by tormina. θ Chronic
looseness of bowels and bilious vomiting.
Six to eight evacuations in twenty-four hours, consisting of "very loose, bright yellow matter and a quantity of mucus," each relief being preceded by considerable griping ; dejections occur chiefly during night, or early in morning ; during day the mainly occur soon
after drinking, especially warm fluids. θ Bilio-mucous diarrhœa.
Severe pain in lower part of abdomen, with desire to evacuate ; rumbling pain most acute in left side ; followed by a free discharge of yellow, bilious matter about 4 A. M., recurring daily for a week at same hour.
Tardy, infrequent and hard stools. θ Dropsy.
Constipation, with great varicosis of hemorrhoidal veins.
Copious hemorrhage after constipated stool.
Protrusion of anus during defecation.
Itching within and around anus, in perineum.
Pruritus ani.

Urinary organs

Frequent and free discharge of light-colored urine, with increased thirst.
(In sick :) Frequent urging to make water, if he cannot immediately it causes pressing pain on vertex, at other times pressing in temples.
Involuntary discharge of urine in night.
Urine scanty and dark, painful in passing. θ Dropsy.
Urine pungent and fetid.
Urine alkaline.
Whitish or purple-colored sediment.
Burning before and after urination, with aching in bladder.
After urination : elastic feeling in urinary organs, with subsequent pleasurable sensation.

Male sexual organs

Satyriasis.
Sexual passion increased, with erections at night during sleep.
Sexual passion strong, with violent erections all night, and desire to cohabit.
Highly excessive enjoyment and pleasure during coition, which was not the case before.
Seminal discharge not so quick and early as usual, but free and without any bad after-feeling.
Increased sexual desire in old men, with violent erections at night.
Pollutions without erection.
Sudden loss of sexual power ; impotence.
Sensation of fulness in both spermatic cords.
Yellow drop from urethra in morning.
Gleety discharge at night, staining linen yellow.
Fulness of glans penis and lower part of scrotum.
Dropsical swelling of penis.
Penis curved in the shape of an S, and swollen at least four inches in circumference, the prepuce œdematous to such a degree as to hide the orifice of the urethra.
Hydrocele.
Oily, pungent smelling sweat on genitals.
Gonorrhœa.

Female sexual organs

Nymphomania.
Obstinate cases of ulcerated os uteri ; sharp, darting pains about half an inch in length, like streaks of lightning.
Too frequent appearance of menses.
Much congestion of sexual organs.
Menses too early ; too copious ; blood thick and coagulated.
Metrorrhagia with, or in alternation with, difficulty of breathing.
Leucorrhœa acrid, excoriating, with itching.
Itching on left breast and right side of nose.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

During pregnancy has much congestion of blood to head.
Itching, redness and swelling of right nipple.
Nipples very red, sore and cracked.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Weak, hoarse voice.
Dryness in larynx and trachea.
Itching in larynx, causing hawking and swallowing.
Soreness and increased irritability in larynx, with impeded respiration and wheezing.
A sore, raw feeling in trachea.
Goitre.

Respiration

Oppression of chest, > when bending backwards.
Difficult breathing, afternoon and evening.
Wheezing respiration. θ Hydrothorax.
Great dyspnœa, has to be propped up in bed. θ Ascites.

Cough

Short, frequent cough, mostly dry, occasionally some whitish, frothy, mucous expectoration. θ Dropsy.
Hawking of phlegm mixed with blood, especially in morning.

Inner chest and lungs

Upper part of chest seems most affected.
Phthisis pulmonalis.
Dropsy of chest ; pulse frequent, small and often irregular ; cannot lie down ; dyspnœa.
Hydrothorax.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Sore pain at heart ; soreness and jerking.
Small, frequent pulse. θ Dropsy.
Pulse somewhat accelerated, only during exercise.

Outer chest

Outer Chest
Scaly eruption on chest and arms.

Neck and back

Pain in third cervical vertebra.
Pain from nape of neck, extending through centre of head to forehead.
Rigidity of nape.
Lameness in back, hips and legs.
Aching in os sacrum and lumbar region, > by stretching and bending backwards, especially by pressure.
(In sick :) Pain in os coccygis, sore to touch, on pressure pain extends through to bladder, < from motion, and exercise.
Bruised pain in sacrum.

Upper limbs

Pain in right shoulder-joint ; shoulder-joints stiffened by rheumatism.
Pain in right shoulder-joint extending towards fingers, as if air was passing down.
Rheumatism, especially venereal ; arms and shoulders are very lame and painful.
Rheumatic pains in left arm, from shoulder to elbow, with lameness.
Slight lameness in right arm ; has some difficulty in writing.
Trembling in biceps and triceps of right arm.
Numbness and powerlessness of hands.
Constant redness of hands, especially palms.
Burning in hands.
Heat and sweat of palms of hands ; moist palms regain their healthy condition.
Acute pricking, as with needles, in fingers.
Pain in left index finger, as if bone, now and then during day ; whole finger painful internally, particularly in evening.
First and second phalanx of left index finger swollen to four times natural size ; first phalanx particularly swollen so that finger is pear-shaped ; on dorsum of finger an opening occasionally occurs from which an ichorous, purulent discharge takes place.
Sharp sticking pain at root of thumb-nail.
Whitlow.
Panaritium ; also simple onychia, ulceration having set in.
Nails grow more rapidly ; crumpled, or longitudinal ridges in them.
Sharp sticking pain at root of right thumb nail.

Lower limbs

Acute stitches in right hip-bone.
Lameness in left hip.
Coxalgia.
Œdematous swelling of legs up to abdomen. θ Ascites.
Left leg goes "to sleep" easily.
Varicosis of lower limbs.
Varicose veins upon legs, tend to ulceration.
Pain in right knee-joint.
Synovitis of knee-joint ; much pain, followed by dropsy.
Top of foot œdematous ; instep.
Chronic ulcerations on feet, particularly about joints and on tibia ; bones more or less affected.
Burning stitches in soles.
Feet hot and burn much.
Soreness between toes.
Soreness of all the corns.

Limbs in general

Pain in all the limbs, with weakness and numbness.
Limbs go to sleep, although he does not lie on them.
Feet and hands excessively moist.

Rest. position. motion

Many symptoms < when standing, though > when standing than when sitting.
Can only lie in an elevated position.
Cannot lie down.
Has to be propped up in bed.
Limbs go to sleep, although he does not lie on them.
Vertigo compels her to sit down.
Motion : heaviness above eyes with nausea < ; accelerates pulse ; pain in os coccygis < ; nausea ; clammy sweat.
Bending backwards : oppression of chest > ; aching in os sacrum and lumbar region >.
Bending head back : hardness of hearing >.
Talking : tongue painful.
Can hardly walk across room.

Nerves

Increased ability to exercise his muscles without fatigue ; is less affected by excessive heat in summer or cold in winter.
Sensation of going to sleep of side not lain on.
Limbs go to sleep, although he does not lie on them.
Lassitude.
Great diurnal languor. θ Secondary syphilis.
Loss of strength ; great prostration and fear of death.
Coccyodynia, with excessive aching, especially in rheumatic subjects.
Progressive locomotor ataxia.
Tabes dorsalis with great excitement of sexual system.

Sleep

Drowsiness.
Sleep earlier in evening ; sudden sleepiness.
Loss of sleep in evening, from crowding of thoughts.
Sleeplessness, without inclination to sleep ; a short sleep suffices and refreshes him.
Sleep restless and unrefreshing. θ Dropsy.
Dreams towards morning.

Time

Morning : good memory ; anxiety > ; moodiness >, headache ; great sensitiveness to noise ; mouth and teeth coated with mucus ; viscid, tasteless saliva in mouth ; constriction of throat ; watery diarrhœa with protrusion of anus ;
offensive yellowish-brown stools ; soft small stools ; early, dejections, yellow drops from urethra ; hawking of phlegm ; dreams.
At 4 A. M. : discharge of yellow bilious matter.
During day : diarrhœa ; bilious diarrhœa < ; pain in index-finger.
At 3 P. M. : headache behind ears.
Afternoon : difficult breathing ; clammy sweat.
Evening : forgets everything ; anxiety < ; moodiness ; great appetite ; soft small stools ; protrusion of hemorrhoids ; difficult breathing ; sleep earlier ; loss of sleep from crowding of thoughts ; clammy sweat.
Night : congestion of blood to forehead and dulness in occiput towards night ; dejections ; involuntary discharge of urine ; erections ; gleety discharge ; pains in bones ; pains <.

Temperature and weather

Is less susceptible to extreme heat of summer and cold of winter.
Worse in wet, cold weather.
Must keep eyes tied up and warm.
Warm drinks cause bilious diarrhœa.
Teeth feel warm.
Desire to wash hot face with cold water.
Cold drink : toothache <.
Ulcers > by washing or sponging them with cold water, < from heat applied. (Silic. has reverse).

Fever

Chill entirely wanting.
General heat, with nausea from slightest motion, with inclination to uncover, and to wash with cold water.
Face constantly hot, wants to bathe it continually in cold water.
Heat returns every evening with frequent pulse and thirst, lasting 3 to 4 hours. θ Intermittent.
Hectic fever, with sour sweat, emaciation and great debility.
Rheumatic fever, or gout, with sour, clammy, fetid sweat.
Decubitus. θ Typhoid fever.
Clammy, sour and unpleasant smelling sweat, mostly on upper body, particularly during exercise in afternoon and evening.
Heat and sweat of palms of hands.
Perspiration particularly in face.
Sweat excessive on feet.
The sweat promotes excoriation and decubitus.
One-sided sweat, left side ; sweat on diseased part.
Better during sweat.
Symptoms following typhus fever.

Attacks, periodicity

Frequent urging to make water.
Twice a day : evacuations.
Twenty-four hours : six to eight evacuations.
Every day for a week at same hour : discharge of yellow bilious matter.
Every morning : headache.
Every evening : heat returns lasting three to four hours.
Alternate days : aggravation an hour later each time.
Every three or four days : scar begins to itch.

Locality and direction

Right : pain in temples ; numbness of bones around ear ; itching on side on nose ; lower jaw swollen ; violent pains at root of eye-tooth ; pressure on gum over eye-tooth ; back part of mouth, painful little ulcer ; hypochondrium
sensitive to pressure ; itching on side of nose ; pain in shoulder-joint ; slight lameness of arm ; trembling of biceps and triceps of arm.
Left : dulness in side of head ; pain in temple ; side of head retarded in growth ; eye seems smaller ; pain in inner canthus ; lachrymal fistula on side ; pimple on wing of nose ; pressing pain in arm ; itching under ribs ; lobe of liver
enlarged and indurated ; pain from side of chest to groin ; rumbling pain most acute in side ; itching on breast ; itching of nipple ; rheumatic pains in arm ; pain in index-finger ; first and second phalanx of index-finger swollen ; one-sided sweat.
Right to left : pain in temples.
Symptoms seem to go from below up.
Within outward : pressing in temples.

Sensations

As if danger menaced him ; brain feels as if on the verge of being struck with apoplexy ; as if in an earthquake ; as of a cold wind blowing under lids even in a warm room ; as if sand were in eyes ; as if he must wink ; as if something were in
eye that could be rubbed out ; as if air was passing down from shoulder-joint to fingers ; pain as if in bone of left index-finger ; as if a burning vapor was emitted from pores of whole body.
Pain : in right temple ; in sutures behind ears ; from nape extending through centre of head to forehead ; in left inner canthus ; in chronic nasitis ; in tongue ; from left side of chest to groin ; about navel ; in abdomen ; urine
painful in passing ; in third cervical vertebra ; in os coccygis ; in right shoulder-joint ; in right knee-joint ; in all the limbs ; in bones.
Violent pains at root of right eye-tooth.
Severe pain : in lower abdomen.
Stitches : in right hip-bone ; in soles.
Sharp darting pains about half an inch in length, like streaks of lightning.
Sticking pains at root of thumb-nail.
Pinching in region of spleen ; in stomach ; about navel.
Griping in abdomen.
Burning pain : on small spots of skin.
Bruised pain : in sacrum.
Pressing pain : in region of spleen ; in left arm ; in vertex.
Compressing pain : in temples.
Rumbling pain : in left side.
Rheumatism : in arms and shoulders.
Dull heavy headache : in forehead.
Sore pain : at heart.
Aching : in bladder ; in os sacrum ; in lumbar region.
Burning : in eyes ; in ears ; in stomach ; about navel ; before and after urination ; in hands.
Soreness : of larynx ; at heart ; between toes ; of all the corns.
Raw feeling : of trachea.
Irritability : of throat ; of larynx.
Sensitiveness : of teeth.
Constriction : in throat ; of anus.
Oppression : of chest.
Heat : at stomach.
Distension : of abdomen.
Fulness : in head ; in epigastrium ; in both spermatic cords ; of glans penis ; lower part of scrotum.
Pricking : of tongue ; in fingers.
Tingling : of tongue.
Emptiness : in region of navel.
Singing : in ears.
Ringing : in ears.
Roughness : of teeth.
Dryness : of larynx ; of trachea.
Dulness : of head ; in occiput.
Pressing : in both temples ; in occiput ; as if behind right eyeball ; in epigastrium.
Heaviness : above eyes ; of teeth.
Weight : in stomach.
Lameness : in back ; in hip ; in legs ; in arms ; in shoulders ; in left hip.
Elastic feeling : in urinary organs.
Sinking weakness : in head.
Numbness : in forehead ; in hands ; in bones around ear ; of tongue ; of hands.
Sensation of going to sleep of side lain on ; legs go to sleep easily.
Itching : of head ; in canthi ; of fistula on left side of cheek ; in both ears ; on right side of nose ; under ribs ; within and around anus ; on left breast ; on right side of nose ; of right nipple ; in larynx ; of
skin ; of ulcers.

Tissues

Atrophy of brain.
Chronic irritation of mucous membranes.
Emaciation. θ Dropsy.
Muscles soft and flabby. θ Chronic diarrhœa.
Alopecia.
Goitre.
Liver enlarged and indurated.
Dropsy of drunkards.
Acute suppurations.
Threatening gangrene in swollen scrotum and penis.
Varicose veins of legs.
Nevus, flat.
Varicose veins, obstinate and long standing cases, especially in women who have borne many children.
Varicose ulcers.
Pains in the bones.
Swelling of bones.
Osteitis.
Exostoses and nightly pains in bones.
Diseases of bones, particularly of long bones ; suppurate and get better and worse periodically ; pains < at night, with great prostration.
Diseases of bones ; particularly of long bones ; caries and necrosis, especially when they are of a psoric or syphilitic nature ; or from abuse of mercury.
Promotes expulsion of necrotic bones.
Syphilis.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : sore pain in os coccygis.
Pressure : scab on cheek painful to ; right hypochondrium sensitive ; liver sensitive ; of clothes > ; emptiness in region of navel ; > aching in os sacrum and lumbar region ; makes pain extend from os coccygis through to bladder.
Bedsores on parts which do not sweat much.
Decubitus. θ Typhus.

Skin

Sallow skin.
Skin grayish-white. θ Dropsy.
Burning pains on small spots of skin.
Itching of skin.
Sensation as if a burning vapor was emitted from the pores of the whole body.
Elevated red blotches.
Several small round blood-vesicles, elevated, of a light carmine color, soft and compressible and resembling little flesh warts.
Skin tubercles on forehead and face, even when ulcerating ; elevated red blotches on palm of hands ; squamous eruptions on body (psoriasis guttata) ; syphilitic erosions, mucous tubercles ; exostoses and nightly pains in bones.
Frequent small boils ; carbuncles.
Pustules.
Dry cutaneous eruptions.
Squamous eruptions on body.
Nevus of children (on right temple) ; capillary aneurism.
Erosions, mucous tubercles.
Varicose veins and ulcers.
Ulcers : painful ; < from warmth, > from cold ; with copious discharge ; with red borders and vesicles.
Old cicatrices become red around edges, covered or surrounded by itching vesicles or they itch violently.
Bedsores ; nevi materni ; pimples.
Carious ulcers becoming < from too large or too frequently repeated doses of Silic.

Stage of life, constitution

Complaints of old age, also premature old age, in consequence of syphilitic-mercurial dyscrasia.
Young people look very old.
Weakly constitutions, sallow skin, emaciation.
Secondary syphilis ; syphilis infantum.
Boy, æt. 9, after scarlet fever ; caries of temporal bone.
Man, æt. 24, primary sore two years ago which disappeared under use of blue pill, and topical application of black wash, four months afterwards had secondary ulceration of throat, which also temporarily healed under blue pill ; syphilis.
Mrs. G., suffering for a month ; diarrhœa.
Man, æt. 30, secondary symptoms for five or six months ; syphilis.
Man, æt. 32, formerly much troubled with scrofulous eruptions ; ulceration of uvula.
Man, æt. 40, subject to indigestion and attacks of bilious vomiting and diarrhœa nearly all his like ; diarrhœa and vomiting.
Mr. B., æt. 50 ; aural itching.
Man, æt. 59, weak constitution, hard drinker, has enlargement of liver ; dropsy.

Relations

Compatible : after Arsen . in ascites from gindrinker's liver ; after Kali carb . in hip disease ; after Phos. ac . in diabetes ; after Silic .
in bone affections.
Compare : Coca in increased ability to exercise ; Coffea in toothache ; Citr. ac . and Sepia in aversion to one's family ; Oxal.
ac . in diarrhœa, < from coffee ; Rhus tox . and Ruta in coccygodynia ; Silic . in dental fistula, onychia, bone diseases and coccygodynia ; Spongia
and Kali carb . in goitre ; Staphis . in sensitive teeth.

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

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

Lecture

It takes a long time for this remedy, in the proving, to develop its symptoms. It is a very deep-acting medicine, and an antipsoric, antisyphilitic and anti-sycotic.

It is insidious in its action and its symptoms are slow in approach; it is like the deepest and slowest and most tedious diseases, the miasms, and hence it is suitable in the very slowest and lowest forms of disease.

While it has in its nature some febrile action, it is not for this purpose that it is oftenest called for its most typical febrile action is very slow and insidious. It corresponds to overheated states of the system, old cases of nightly fevers, coming on week after week and year after year.

It is an unusually hot-blooded remedy at times, and again it has conditions of coldness. In the evening and night great heat seems to evolve from the body without increase of temperature. The skin becomes very hot.

That patient is often < from warm things, < from covering, < from warm air; suffocates somewhat like Puls. in a warm room. He wants to bathe the face and head in cold water; such bathing is grateful.

The feet burn and are put out of bed in the night; he hunts around in bed for a cool place for the feet and bands. The soles perspire, and the palms perspire, and the sweat is acrid, making the parts sore; excoriation from the sweat between the toes.

The perspiration is offensive; offensive, acrid sweat between the toes. Burning, unusual heat and acridity are words that modify a great many symptom s; an acrid lachrymation or other discharge from the eye; acrid discharge from the nose, acrid sweat, etc.

Sensation of burning and burning pains in parts; heat evolved from the body as a chronic state. Aggravation from heat, from outward heat and from inward heat, belongs to this remedy. It is a strong feature, of this remedy to be worse from drinking tea and coffee. Warm, drinks bring on a diarrhea, or flatulence, or disturbance in the stomach, and cause indigestion to manifest itself in various way The symptoms are worse standing and sitting and better in the open air.

It is a remedy of great depth of action. It so disturbs the functions that there are peculiar outward signs in the nails, in the hair, in the skin; they are all imperfectly developed.

Skin

Whenever such is the case, we know that a remedy has great depth of action and that it is very long acting. It forms like incrustations here and there upon the skin that seem to have no tendency to heal.

A crust forms, but there seems to be no healing beneath the crust. The hair loses its luster; it falls out, and if examined closely under the microscope it is seen to be necrosed; little ragged ulcers will be found along the course of the hair.

The ends of the hair are dry, the hair mats and splits and breaks, becomes ragged in masses and lustreless. The nails are crippled, likewise corrugations in the nails; the nails grow too fast and grow awkwardly; that is, they are deformed and crippled, too thick in some places, and too thin in others; break easily, brittle.

There is a tendency to breaking down of a slow character, where the circulation is very feeble and the skin is near bone or cartilage as in the cartilages in the ears, and in the cartilages of joints.

Ulcers develop over the tibia. There is feeble circulation in the hands and feet and they become cold. In the evening the extremities burn and are feverish, because that is the time of the feverish state; but in the morning and in the daytime there is coldness of the extremities.

The patient is pallid and sickly, and at times becomes waxy and dropsical; oedema of the extremities, and particularly of the lower extremities; oedema of certain parts; oedema of the prepuce.

When a debilitated subject, one suffering from bone and cartilaginous troubles, contracts gonorrhoea, with it he will have enormous swelling of the prepuce, and nothing seems to act upon it. Fluoric acid will cure oedema of the prepuce with gonorrhoea in such a subject. Cannabis sativa has the same symptom, but it is especially useful in robust cases.

Fluoric acid will prevent the manifestation of disease in sycotic subjects, will prevent formation of fig warts. It cures fig warts. It produces hardened, dry warts, and dry crusts upon the skin, and crusts not unlike rupia. It is useful in syphilitic rupia.

Bone affections stand out prominently. Necrosis, especially of the long bones, but also of the bones of the ear. It creates an offensive acrid discharge from the ear. It establishes an offensive oezena, an acrid discharge, with necrosis of the nasal bones.

It is very analogous to Sil., and it is one of the natural followers of Sil. where Sil. has been too frequently repeated by persons who do not know that Silicea does its best in a single dose and that it is a long acting and slow medicine.

It not only antidotes the abuse of Sil., but also follows Sil., After practicing a while you will be surprised to observe the Pendulum like -action between beat and cold in various complementary remedies.

To make that clear I will illustrate it by using the series in which this remedy is set and to which it naturally belongs. You take a patient who is hot-blooded, who is always suffering from the heat, from too much clothing and too warm a room especially in the evenings, a patient that is tearful and sad, and may be a blonde.

Why you say, I am trying to describe a Pulsatilla patient. Well, yes; anyone can see that. Puls. is a hot-blooded patient, but after using that remedy a while you notice that the patient goes to the other extreme and becomes chilly, and wants much clothing; the heat is taken out of the case. Sil. is the natural follower of Puls., and you would be astonished to know bow often a patient leaving Puls. runs toward Sil.

Sil. goes deeper into the case, it does more cutting, and it is the, natural chronic of Puls. Other remedies of course follow Puls., but Sil. more frequently than any other medicine. Now, that is the second step; the patient has gone from a warm to a cool state; the overheated state has been lost and he has gone into Sil., but when Sil. has been administered for a while it cures the cold state, and removes the chilliness of the patient (remember, however, that Sil. has at times something of Puls. in it; in some of its complaints it is < from being overheated) and the patient under Sil. goes back to the warm state again, becomes hot-blooded, wants the warm covers thrown off, wants to be lightly covered.

Then it is that this medicine comes in the series. Fluor. ac. follows Sil. as naturally as Sil. follows Puls. They exist in threes.

That is a clinical state, but it is significant.

Its use in syphilis must not be overlooked. in old cases with exostoses, caries and necrosis, cases that have been mercurialized, and treated by other drugs until ulcers have developed or those affections of the nose that we have often observed in syphilitic states. He blows small pieces of bone out of the nose; great pain in the nose; nasal bones all destroyed, and the nose becomes flat as though only a soft piece of flesh with perforations.

The vulva is eaten off and the tonsils become honeycombed by syphilitic ulcers.

Lingering, low forms of ulcers and eruptions. The teeth decay or break off or ulcerate at the roots; fistulous openings from the root of the tooth, continuing to discharge.

Many a time has this remedy taken away that ulcer of the root, closed up that fistulous opening, cured the pain, saved the tooth.

"Craves cold water and is continually hungry."

Often that "all gone" sensation in the stomach. Is always eating and is relieved from eating, but like Iodine it does not last long, for soon be becomes hungry again. Such medicines are very deep. We see that they go, to the very root of assimilation and nutrition.

Chronic ulcers of the throat not necessarily syphilitic, but it is particularly useful in the old forms of syphilis; not generally so suitable in the earlier ulcers as in those that are associated with the tertiary forms, with debilitated states, with brain disease, with nervous symptoms that go on for years when the patient is supposed to be cured.

Very often the trouble will come back in the throat, and the ulcers consist of little gummatous growths. Sil. especially covers such a condition, and Sil. is also one of the most useful medicines for rooting out Mercurius.

In potentized form sil. and Merc. are inimical, yet the high potencies of Sil. will antidote crude Mercury.

This patient craves pungent, highly seasoned things. The appetite must be tickled; there must be some inducement to eat. At times the appetite is changeable in spite of the fact that he is overwhelmingly hungry; he cannot eat, yet he is > when the food is in the stomach, > after eating.

The most vicious kind of chronic diarrhea with this low feeble constitution, in insidious complaints.

"Morning diarrhoea."

The itching of the anus is sometimes intense ; protrusion of the anus during defecation; profuse haemorrhage after stool; constipation with piles; itching around and in anus, in perineum, etc,

This drug is also suitable in the dropsy of drunkards. They are very often liver dropsies. Old cicatrices become red around the edge surrounded by itching vesicles, itching violently; squamous eruptions upon the body; dry, cutaneous eruptions upon the body, very scaly.

"Sensation as if a burning vapor were emitted from the pores of the body."

Especially under the covers there is this sensation of great heat, tremendous, like steam. It is not in fever. He has no fever but it is a chronic state of giving out heat without thirst, or increase of temperature.

Series

There are other remedies that exist in threes, but the most common ones you will think of will be:

Sulph., Calc. and Lyc.;

Sulph., Sars. and Sep.; and

Coloc. and Caust. and Staph., which often follow each other and rotate in this way.

Do not let these facts make you give a routine remedy unless the symptoms agree, but it does help to remember that remedies are somewhat similar. It is true that Puls., Sil. and Fluor. ac. are similar all along the line as to the nature of their symptoms.

Puls. corresponds to more acute disturbances, or to the earlier stages of chronic disease, the more active or violent operations of chronic disease. It will take off the wire edge of the disease, and it will be followed by some medicine that is complementary to it, always to be determined by the symptoms that arise.

There are cases that would be greatly injured by so deeply acting a remedy as Sil. if given in the beginning, that is, the suffering would be unnecessary; but if you commence with Puls. you can mitigate the case and prepare it to receive Sil., providing the two would appear to be on a plane of agreement.

A very serious case had better first receive Puls., and the way being paved by that remedy follow it up with Sil.

Bones

Think of the remedy, then, in vicious bone diseases, in necrosis and caries, in fistulous openings, fistula leading to the teeth, fistula lachrymalis and fistula in ano; in calcareous degenerations; in deformity of the nails, hair and teeth; in affections of the thigh bones and leg bones, with chronic fistulous openings leading to bone discharging pus which excoriates the parts all around.

The patient is over-sensitive; is made worse if the bowels do not move regularly; is distressed if the menstrual flow is slightly delayed; suffers if the call to urinate cannot be immediately attended to, hence, as in the text, "headaches > by micturition."

Headache

That symptom is all that is given in the text; but remember something that is analogous to it, viz.; If the call to urinate be not attended to the headache will continue to grow < until the urine is avoided.

That is a peculiar symptom, and it sometimes leads to the study of Fluor, ac. Violent congestive headache with beat and fullness. Violent occipital headaches, worse from motion.

Now, if we take into consideration its great depth of action, we will see furthermore that it is suitable in some brain diseases. In persons who have overworked, who have been working day and night to establish a business, or to keep it up, and when there has been constant use of the brain it is suitable.

Mind

In mental depression and melancholy, with great sadness, in young men who have destroyed the nervous system by vicious practices, by secret vice. It is particularly suitable for that disorder of the human economy where men have continuously changed their mistresses.

There is a state in which a man is never satisfied with one woman, but continually changes and goes from bad to worse until he is a debauchee. If a young man cannot keep away from women, he is not so bad off if he will only keep to one, but he goes from one to many, until he stands upon the street corners and, in his lust, craves the innocent women that go along the street.

Fluoric acid is suitable in that state, like Picric acid and Sepia, and these medicines are particularly suited to that condition of enfeeblement of the mind and that disorder of the human economy that makes man so low, that we have the state described as "low mindedness."

It takes that form in one who is a sort of debauchee, running after alt sorts of things to tickle his fancy, but it takes another form in a man who stays at home with his good wife. He takes an aversion to his children and to his dearest friends and his wife, that is, he has lost that true and noble and orderly affection and friendship and companionship which ought to exist, and he fights against it.

An orderly man considers his wife his best friend and he would rather stay with her than go anywhere else. To him there is no place like home. Now, when man arrives at the state when he wants to go somewhere else, that he wants to go away from home, that be is disturbed at home, that everything annoys him at home, that be no longer loves his children as he once did, he needs Fluoric acid.

"Feeling of indifference towards those he loves best."

The Sepia state is like this, but Sep. is more frequently indicated in women. The woman will say,

"Doctor, there is one thing that I regret very much, and that is, I do not seem to enjoy my children, my home, my companions, my husband and my friends.

There is a sort of alienation."

Such is the way it is told where it is Sepia. In the man it is more commonly Fluoric acid, in the woman more commonly Sep., but this need not necessarily be so. Sepia corresponds more closely to the condition of the uterus and ovaries, and such conditions, as the woman alone can have. (Compare Calcarea.)

Reticence and silence; sitting and saying nothing. This reticence is like Puls., and often belongs to the insane who will sit in the corner and say nothing all day, never uttering one single word, and hardly answering when spoken to.

A patient sits in the corner and says nothing and does nothing, eats when food is offered, is led to her room when the time comes, resists nobody, answers nothing; such a state is found in Pulsatilla, and is closely allied to this remedy.

There, is some insanity in it, but especially the fatigue and mildness of a the brain. Mental exhaustion from overwork or from vices.

It is suitable after Sil. in the spinal affections that are attended with paralysis, trembling and numbness in the soles of the feet. It will often stop the progress of structural nervous diseases and prevent the, case from getting worse.

Men

Fluoric acid has with this state an overwhelming sexual erethism.

He is kept awake nights by erections. This state of desire forces itself upon him, not only when he is with the opposite sex, but at all times. At times, in the beginning of a gonorrhea, this condition of priapism and intense uncontrollable sexual desire, with swelling of the foreskin is overcome by Fluoric acid. There are times when this priapism demands Canth., but that remedy differs wholly in its nature from this.

Veins

An excellent and very useful feature of this remedy is its ability to produce varicose veins and varicose ulcers.

The veins become varicosed anywhere, but particularly upon the lower limbs, especially following pregnancy.

Hemorrhoids protrude after a stool; the anus and rectum protrude, and there is some bleeding, because of the hemorrhoidal condition. Varicose conditions with very old ulcers upon the lower extremities; the varicose veins ulcerate.

You might predict what kind of ulcer and what kind of a margin Fluoric acid would produce. We see the feebleness of its circulation, we see its tendency to create hard crusts, and hardened, horny skin and eruptions.

We might now easily assume that the inflamed borders of an ulcer would become indurated, hard and glassy. The margins of ulcers are indurated and the ulcer is an old, indolent ulcer.

Parts once broken will not close up. Union will not take place between the broken ends of bones, there is no repair. From bones and from ulcers, we have the foetid, acrid, thin, watery discharges, or at times very scanty discharges, but acrid, burning the parts all around, raising eruptions and scurfs around the ulcers.

From the feebleness of the circulation one might suppose that numbness would naturally be present, and it is true.

The ears become numb, the scalp becomes numb, there is a sensation as if the back of the head were made of wood. The scalp loses its sensation, the hair falls out and crusts form. The extremities become numb and there is numbness of the feet and bands extending upwards; numbness, with or without dropsy; numbness in spinal affections; numbness in brain diseases. Numbness of the limb not laid on.

"Crusta lactea; dry scales; itches very much, bald places.

Caries of the temporal bone; discharges offensive smelling pus periodically." "whole left side of the head retarded in growth, left eye seems smaller."