Formica Rufa form.

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

Joints. Spine. Liver. Kidneys. Right side.

Worse

Cold; wet. Motion. Before snow-storms.

Better

Pressure.

General

Sudden rheumatic or gouty pains. Takes cold easily. Tuberculosis. Hyper-plasia.

Particulars

Light, foaming stools. Hydrops ovarii. Nervous asthma. Hives, in flat plaques. Profuse sweat, without relief.

Related

Related: Rhus-t. Urt-u.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Crushed Live Ants (MYRMEXINE)

General

An arthritic medicine. Gout and articular rheumatism; pains worse, motion; better, pressure. Right side most affected. Chronic gout and stiffness in joints. Acute outbursts of gouty poisons, especially when assuming the neuralgic forms. Tuberculosis, carcinoma, and lupus; chronic nephritis. Complaints from overlifting. Apoplectic diseases. Has a marked deterrent influence on the formation of polypi.

Head

Vertigo. Headache with cracking in left ear. Brain feels too heavy and large. Sensation as if a bubble burst in forehead. Forgetful in the evening. Exhilarated. Coryza and stopped-up feeling in nose. Rheumatic iritis. Nasal polypi.

Ears

Ringing and buzzing. Cracking in left ear with headache. Parts around ear feel swollen. Polypi.

Stomach

Constant pressure at the cardiac end of the stomach, and a burning pain there. Nausea, with headache, and vomiting of yellowish bitter mucus. Pain shift from stomach to vertex. Gas cannot be passed.

Abdomen and Stool

In the morning, difficult passages of small quantities of flatus; afterwards diarrhœa-like urging in the rectum. Pain in bowels before stool, with shuddering chilliness. Constriction in the anus. Drawing pain around navel before stool.

Urine

Bloody, albuminous, with much urging; quantities of urates.

Respiratory

Hoarseness, with dry, sore throat; cough worse at night, with aching in forehead and constrictive pain in chest; pleuritic pains.

Sexual

Seminal emissions; weakness. "Slothful to venery".

Extremities

Rheumatic pains; stiff and contracted joints. Muscles feel strained and torn from their attachment. Weakness of lower extremities. Paraplegia. Pain in hips. Rheumatism comes on with suddenness and restlessness. Sweat does not relieve. Relief after midnight and from rubbing.

Skin

Red, itching and burning. Nettle-rash. Nodes around joints (Ammon phos). Profuse sweat without relief.

Modalities

Worse, cold and cold washing, dampness, before a snowstorm. Better, warmth, pressure, rubbing. Combing hair.

Relationship

Compare: Formic acid (Chronic myalgia. Muscular pains and soreness. Gout and articular rheumatism, which appear suddenly. Pains usually worse on right side, motion and better from pressure. Failing vision. Increases muscular strength and resistance to fatigue. Feels stronger and more "fit" in ordinary walking. Marked diuretic effect, greater elimination of products of disassimilation, particularly urea. Tremor. Tuberculosis, chronic nephritis and carcinoma, lupus, etc, have been treated successfully with injections of Formic acid of a dilution corresponding to the 3d and 4th centesimal. In prescribing it for varicose veins, polypi, catarrh, Dr. J. H. Clarke orders an ounce or two of a solution of Formic acid in the proportion of one part of the acid to eleven of distilled water. Of this one teaspoonful is taken in a tablespoonful of water after food once or twice daily. Pain in aponeurosis and muscles of head, neck and shoulders before a snowstorm). Rhus; (Dulcam, Urtica and Juniperus contain Formic acid), Wood alcohol, when taken as a constituent of a beverage so common in these prohibition days, is not eliminated easily and is slowly converted into Formic acid, attacking the brain and causes death or blindness.

Dr. Sylwestrowicz of the Hering Research Laboratory of Hahnemann College, Philadelphia contributes his experience with Formic Acid, as follows:

"The best field for the formic acid treatment are cases of atypical gout. Under this classification are to be mentioned disturbances in the muscles such as myositis, periostitic processes of the bones in form of doughy swellings, changes of the fascias such as Dupyutren's contraction, skin troubles such as chronic eczema, psoriasis and loss of hair, kidney disturbances such as subacute and chronic nephritis. In these cases formic acid in 12x and 30x, hypodermically 1 cc is indicated at intervals of 2-4 weeks. Eight till twelve days after the first injection an aggravation is often noticed.

In acute rheumatic fever and acute gonorrhœic arthritis formic acid 6x, every six days 1 cc, sometimes 12x in sensitive patients shows often splendid results abolishing the pains and preventing reoccurrence.

Chronic arthritis needs a special discussion. Clinical experiments of the Hering research Laboratory of the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia on a great number of cases of arthritis with formic acid showed that it preferably acts on the ligaments, capsula and bursa of the joints. Such kind of cases respond very readily to treatment.

The prognosis depends to a large extent upon the etiology of the case. The most satisfactory cases are chronic arthritis in connection with gouty diathesis. Chronic arthritis following an attack of acute rheumatic fever shows also remarkable results although often pains of a neuralgic character persisting in certain spots are very stubborn. Finally chronic arthritis of traumatic nature can be cured by formic acid. In the latter case formic acid 6x showed quicker and better results than 12x or 30x which are indicated in the previous cases. In general the disappearance of the stiffness of the joint is the first sign of improvement. Then the pain and swelling cease gradually in 1-6 months time.

The prognosis of the formic acid treatment is not so favorably in chronic arthritis in which deformans processes have already taken place on the articular surfaces. Such processes in the beginning can be checked completely, advanced cases frequently show an improvement. But there is always the possibility that this improvement is only temporary. This is particularly to be expected in the cases of the so-called arthritis deformans in which even the inflammations on the ligaments and capsula are of a very progressive character".

Dose

Sixth to thirtieth attenuation.

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

Formica rufa. The Ant. N. O. Hymenoptera. Tincture from crushed live ants. Contains formic acid (HCO, OH).

Clinical

Apoplexy. Brain, affections of. Bruises. Chorea. Cough. Diarrhœa. Dislocations. Dropsies. Eyes, affections of. Facial paralysis. Foot-sweat, checked, consequence of. Gout. Hair, falling out. Headaches. Nodes. Overlifting, complaints from. Paralysis. Rheumatism. Sight, affections of. Spine, affections of. Spleen, pain in. Throat, sore.

Characteristics

Formica causes many rheumatic and gouty pains; the pains appear suddenly, and dart from place to place: left, then right; right, then left. The spinal cord is affected, paralyses and spasms occurring. Sensation as if brain too heavy and large. Sensation as if a bubble burst in forehead. It is of use "in all kinds of apoplectic diseases. It strengthens the brain" (Hering). Cooper has given the 3x with success in cases of weakness of lower extremities. J. W. Thomson ( H. P ., xvi. 32) reports the case of a gentleman, aged 84, who had severe neuralgic pains between posterior of right ear and centre of occiput. From this he apparently recovered. Eighteen months later he returned with a steady, sore, and burning pain in same region; swollen and tender around, but especially behind, right ear. He could only sleep in one comfortable position, which he could not describe, but only knew when he found it; and he must be covered up warmly behind right ear and between that and occiput and neck ─ all right side. Better from taking right hand and rubbing gently behind right ear. Sweat afforded no relief ; the whole head seemed to sympathise with the distress; he had dribbling of urine. Formica rufa was given, six doses, one before each meal. On the second day, towards evening, he felt worse, and on the third day there were twinges and spasms of severe pain in addition to the sore pain which he had before experienced. These gradually got better, and on the fourth day even the soreness was much better. The main thing, however, was that he felt mentally better; said his mind and head felt stronger, and from feeling depressed he had become cheerful, and life did not seem the burden it had for some time past. Hering gives as an indication for Formic acid : "Burning pain, burning from washing; renewed burning from cold washing." Symptoms are > after midnight. Motion < ; also sitting. Hot irons > pain in neck. > By rubbing; by combing hair. Cold water application < (headache; burning pains). Great liability to take cold; consequences of cold and wet; cold bathing; damp weather. Clammy skin; disagreeable sweat during night; sweat without relief.

Relations

Compatible: After Cham. Compare: Ars., Bry., Dulc. (rheumatism); Urt. u. (nettle-rash; gout; rheumatism. Nettles contain Formic acid); Frag. v. (lack of mammary secretion); Tromb. (diarrhœa); Caps. (burning pains < by cold water).

Causation

Checked foot-sweat.

Mind

Want of memory; in evening. ─ Indisposed, morose, fearful, apprehensive. ─ Exhilarated after pain in vertex abated. ─ Mind unusually excited. ─ Remarkable and unexpected activity of mind during the day, with absence of usual dulness and sleepiness.

Head

Vertigo; all things seem to move to and fro, and reeling of body; pain in l. supra-orbital region when going to bed, with dizziness; blackness before eyes, > by sitting down. ─ Fulness; stupid feeling, with sensation of stiffness in neck. ─ Dulness; pressure on both sides between temples and ears. ─ Fore part of head aches with the cough. ─ Sensation like a bubble bursting in forehead, running around l. side of head. ─ Headache in l. forehead and temple back to occiput, with cutting extending into ear. ─ Headache with cracking in l. ear, followed by pain in l. temple, then in vertex with nausea and abatement of pain in forehead. ─ Pain on top of head, shifting from epigastrium. ─ In morning, headache in posterior, upper and inner part of head; < drinking coffee; each time during and after washing with cold water. ─ Pain from neck up to back of head. ─ Sensation running up into head from body like lightning. ─ Headache, < sitting up in bed; > after combing hair. ─ Itching of scalp. ─ Hair ceases failing out. ─ Contusions of head.

Eyes

Pain in l. supra-orbital and l. temporal region, the seat of pain being tender to touch; pain and aching over l. eye; objects appear as if seen through a mist; blackness before eyes, must sit down for a few moments. ─ Pain in eye when awakes, > by washing. ─ Dim sight. ─ Flickering before eyes. ─ Nebula; leucoma; pterygium. ─ Maculæ and ulcers on cornea. ─ Rheumatic ophthalmia. ─ Spasmodic twitching of upper eyelid (r).

Ears

Ringing buzzing in ears. ─ Cracking in l. ear with headache. ─ Deafness. ─ External sensitiveness of r. ear and temple.

Face

Entire l. side of face and cheek feel as if paralysed.

Throat

Sore throat in morning, with much mucus. ─ Sore throat < l. side.

Stomach

Pain in neck when hawking and gargling; when eating and drinking, esp. when closing jaws. ─ After drinking tea copious sweat. ─ Nausea and vomiting; with diarrhœa; in evening; with cough. ─ Burning pain in stomach, with oppression and weight. ─ Constant pressure at cardiac end of stomach, and a burning pain there.

Abdomen

Dull pain in region of spleen. ─ Sensation across abdomen as if bruised below navel, also tired feeling in back. ─ Flatulence. ─ Hardening of mesenteric glands.

Stool and Anus

Diarrhœa after meals, or only during day, not at night; or day and night, or before midnight. ─ Diarrhœa with tenesmus; pain in bowels before stool. ─ Loose diarrhœic stool, with feeling as if more was to pass. ─ White stools. ─ Constipation and sensation of constriction in sphincter. ─ Pressure in rectum, < evening and in bed. ─ Painful desire in anus and rectum for stool, which, however, will not pass. ─ Tape-worm.

Urinary Organs

Paralysis of bladder. ─ Double the quantity of urine, even at night; increased for two or three days. ─ Urine like saffron; bright yellow; no sediment; passed frequently.

Male Sexual Organs

Long-lasting erections after urinating in morning. ─ Seminal emissions. ─ Scanty ejaculation with incomplete erection.

Female Sexual Organs

Menses scanty and pale, with bearing-down pains in back third day; fourth day darker; crampy pain through hip-joint and pelvis. ─ Menses appear eight days too soon. ─ Lack of milk with nursing women.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness with sore throat. ─ Small piece of phlegm in throat, which cannot be brought up by coughing. ─ Cough tedious and long lasting; < at night and from motion; with an aching in forehead and a constrictive pain in chest. ─ Violent attacks of cough, with vomiting, day and night.

18, 19. Chest and Heart. ─ Pleuritic pains. ─ Uneasy pain in region of heart. ─ Fluttering palpitation. ─ Violent penetrating pain in region of r. nipple. ─ Violent prickling pressing stitches in region of l. nipple, later on l. side of back, but more violent; still later the same sensation on other parts of the body.

Neck and Back

Soreness in neck and up into head. ─ Severe, pain l. side of neck while chewing. ─ Stiffness l. side of neck extending down l. arm; < by least motion; turn, or twist; > by application of a hot iron. ─ Severe pain across sacrum and dorsum of each hand. ─ Affection of spinal cord.

Limbs

Sensation as if muscles were strained and being torn from attachment. ─ Rheumatism appearing suddenly, mostly in joints, with restlessness; patients desire motion, although it < pains; > by pressure; sweat without relief; < r. side. ─ Stiffness and contraction of joints.

Upper Limbs

Itching in armpits in morning. ─ Pain from neck down l. arm; in evening to r.; could scarcely move her arm. ─ Severe pain above r. elbow.

Lower Limbs

Severe pain through pelvis as if from one acetabulum to the other. ─ Bruised pain in hips at night, causing him to change from side to side. ─ Chronic gout. ─ Checked foot-sweat (chorea from).

Sleep

All night dry throat, woke her out of sleep. ─ Disagreeable sweat during night, awoke with clammy skin. ─ Could get to sleep if she could get the right position. ─ Wakes early, and feels she has had sufficient sleep. ─ On awaking: headache; vomiting with headache; pain in eyes; stitches in ears.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

Mind

Want of memory ; forgetful in evening.
Indisposed, forgetful, morose, fearful and apprehensive.
Exhilarated condition after pain in vertex had abated.

Sensorium

Vertigo ; all things seem to move to and fro, and reeling of body.
Inclined to be dizzy while eating ; giddiness after dressing in morning or on attempting to rise ; pain in left supra-orbital region when going to bed, with dizziness ; blackness before eyes, > by sitting down.
Giddy on attempting to rise.
Fulness in head ; stupid feeling in head, with sensation of stiffness of neck.
Heaviness of head ; sensation as if brain was too heavy and large ; congestion to head ; pulsations in head.
Dull, sleepy feeling, with heaviness of eyelids, and inability to study.
Dull, uncomfortable feeling in forehead, with heat, fulness and pulsations.
Dulness of head ; pressure on both sides between temples and ears.
In all kinds of apoplectic diseases.
Strengthens the brain.

Inner head

Forepart of head aches, with the cough.
Sensation like a bubble bursting in forehead, running around left side of head.
Dull frontal headache, with occasional shooting pains from r. temple into head, in afternoon.
Headache in left forepart of head and temple back to occiput, beginning earlier every day, with a sore pain over eye, increasing gradually, with cutting, extending into ear.
Headache with cracking in left ear, followed by pain in left temple, then in vertex, with nausea, and abatement of pain in forehead.
Sick headache, with shooting, neuralgic pains in temples.
Lancinating in right temple, from within out.
Dull pain in whole head, with occasional boring in right temporal region.
Severe pain in vertex, like a stitch from a dull instrument, as from a pressing nail.
Pain on top of head shifting from epigastrium.
Headache on top of head and forehead, particularly through temples.
In morning headache in posterior upper and inner part of head ; < drinking coffee ; each time during and after washing with cold water.
Tearing pain in occiput.
(In sick :) Pain from neck up to back of head.
(In sick :) Sensation running up into head from body like lightning.
When waking in morning, headache with vomiting, stitches in right side of chest.
Headache : with nausea ; < sitting up in bed ; with nausea and vomiting ; in afternoon, with occasional fluttering of heart ; daily from 12 M. to 10 P. M. ; < stooping ; all day, > after combing hair.
Nervous headache.

Outer head

Itching of scalp and head.
Hair on head ceased falling out when combing.
Contusions of head.

Sight and eyes

Pain in left supraorbital and left temporal region, the seat of pain being tender to touch ; pain and aching over left eye ; objects appear as if seen through a mist ; blackness before eyes, must sit down for a few moments.
Dimness of sight.
(In sick :) Although improved, she cannot see, has flickering before eyes, and eyes are very weak.
Nebula ; leucoma ; pterygium.
Maculæ and ulcers on cornea.
(In sick :) Pain in eyes mornings when awaking, > by washing.
Rheumatic inflammation of eyes and sequela.
Spasmodic twitching of upper eyelid of right eye.

Hearing and ears

Ringing, buzzing in ears.
Cracking in left ear, with headache.
Difficult hearing ; deafness.
Earache in both ears, morning getting up.
Pressing pain in ears, with heat.
Slight stitches in left ear, followed by a small abscess in external portion of meatus auditorius.
(In sick :) External sensitiveness of right ear and temple.
(In sick :) All the parts around ear feel swollen and uncomfortable ; slight pain in (right) deaf ear, extending up into temple, with external sensitiveness.
(In sick :) Behind the ear, pain from neck.
(In sick :) All ear symptoms, like cold in head, have been on right side, where ear is deaf ; left ear occasionally sympathizing.

Smell and nose

Sneezing and fluent coryza.
Catarrh.

Upper face

Entire left side of face and cheek feel as if paralyzed.
(In sick :) After taking first powder, the blister on face, for which the medicine was given, seemed rather smaller and harder ; after the second, it was softer and felt sore, and a small pimple appeared on face ; the morning after the third, surface of blister was
irregular.

Teeth and gums

Grumbling in teeth during afternoon, from draught.
Pain in decayed last molar, left side.

Taste, speech, tongue

(In sick :) Watery taste in mouth, very offensive to him.
(In sick :) Water tastes badly, sweetish and insipid.
(In sick :) Root of tongue sore ; at the tip stinging.

Palate and throat

Dry throat all night, could scarcely speak ; when she got into a position in which she could sleep a little, the dryness of throat awoke her.
(In sick :) In morning on rising very sore throat and earache in both ears.
Sore throat in morning with much mucus.
Sore throat < left side.
(In sick :) Pain in neck when hawking and gargling.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

(In sick :) Much thirst all day, but water tasted badly, sweetish and insipid.

Eating and drinking

(In sick :) While eating and drinking, especially when closing jaws, severe pain in neck.
(In sick :) After drinking tea, copious sweat.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting
(In sick :) Frequent belching without and relief.
Nausea and vomiting.
Nausea with headache, and vomiting of yellowish, bitter mucus.
(In sick :) Vomiting : with diarrhœa, in evening ; with cough.

Scrobiculum and stomach

(In sick :) Warmth and burning in stomach, acceleration of pulse, increased urination, increased transpiration, excitement of sexual organs, viscous, stinking urine, with gouty patients.
Burning pain in stomach, with oppression and weight.
Constant pressure at cardiac end of stomach, and a burning pain there.

Hypochondria

Dull pain in region of spleen.

Abdomen and loins

(In sick :) Severe pain in belly, and shuddering chilliness.
Sensation across abdomen as if bruised below navel, also tired feeling in back.
Flatulency.
Hardening of mesenteric glands.

Stools and rectum

(In sick :) After having a thin evacuation with bellyache, every morning for a week, without much relief from the eruption, there appeared in the evening, at 8 or 9 o'clock, violent diarrhœa and vomiting.
Diarrhœa after meals, or only during day, not at night, or day and night, or before midnight.
Diarrhœa, with tenesmus ; pain in bowels before stool.
Loose diarrheic stool, which left a desire for another stool, with an uncomfortable feeling in anus, as if the passage was not all through, and more must pass.
Difficult passage of small quantities of flatus in morning ; afterwards diarrhœa like urging in rectum.
Diarrhœa of children.
(In sick :) In the morning second stool.
White stools.
Constipation and sensation of constriction of sphincter ani.
Pressure in rectum, < evening and in bed.
Painful desire in anus and rectum for stool, which, however, will not pass.
Tapeworm.

Urinary organs

Paralysis of bladder.

Male sexual organs

Long-lasting erections after urinating in morning.
Seminal emissions.
Weakness of sexual organs.
Scanty ejaculation with incomplete erection.
A kind of nervous, floating and jerking pain in left half of penis and region of prostate, frequently repeated.
On ascending stairs feeling as if several parts had gone to sleep.
Itching on scrotum.

Female sexual organs

Uterine complaints.
Menses scanty and pale, with bearing down pain in back ; 3d day ; darker 4th day ; crampy pain through hip-joint and pelvis.
Menses appear eight days too soon.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Lack of milk with nursing women.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Hoarseness with sore throat.
Small piece of phlegm in larynx which cannot be brought up by coughing.

Cough

Tedious and long lasting ; < at night and from motion ; with an aching in forehead and a constrictive pain in chest.
Violent attacks of cough with vomiting, day and night.

Inner chest and lungs

Pleuritic pains.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Uneasy pain in region of heart.
Palpitation of heart ; fluttering of heart.

Outer chest

Violent penetrating itching at right nipple.
Violent prickling, pressing stitches in region of left nipple ; later on left side of back, but more violent ; still later, the same sensation on other parts of body.

Neck and back

(In sick :) Soreness in neck and up into head ; > by external pressure.
(In sick :) While eating and chewing food, especially when closing her jaws, severe pain in left side of neck, which extended into back of head and particularly behind ear.
(In sick :) In morning, on gargling her throat, when hawking, suddenly a violent pain in left side of nape of neck, extending down left arm, can scarcely move it, < above elbow ; > in evening in left arm, but it went to right, where it was < than before ; on
bending head back, could scarcely bring it forward again, on account of pain ; whole neck stiff, and very painful up to back of head, < from least motion ; on wishing to rise from bed, must press both hands behind ears, cries out on least motion.
(In sick :) Into the neck pain with least turn or twist.
(In sick :) After sitting up pain in neck < again, > by application of a hot iron.
Violent itching on left shoulder-blade.
Pain in back.
Severe pain across sacrum and dorsum of each hand, < on motion.
Affection of spinal cord.

Upper limbs

Itching in armpits in morning.
(In sick :) Pain from neck down left arm ; in evening to right ; could scarcely move her arm.
Severe pain above right elbow.
(In sick :) Pain < in upper arm, above left elbow.
Rheumatic pain : in right elbow-joint ; in right forearm and wrist ; along course of ulna.
Pain leaves left arm and goes to right.

Lower limbs

Severe pain through pelvis, as if from one acetabulum to the other.
Bruised pain in hips at night in bed, causing him to change from side to side.
Legs felt as if she had no power in them, sore and tired ; sensation across abdomen as if bruised below navel, also tired feeling in back ; felt a little giddy.
Lancinating pain in left knee-joint, waking him from sleep.
Rheumatic pains in knee-joints, < walking.
Cramp in both feet, especially in soles near toes.
Gout ; gouty pain in limbs.
Arthritis vaga.
Chronic gout and stiffness of joints.
Old atonic gout.
Checked foot-sweat. θ Chorea.

Limbs in general

Sensation as if muscles were strained and being torn from attachment.
Rheumatism appearing suddenly, mostly in joints, with restlessness ; patients desire motion, although it makes pain more acute ; pains > by pressure ; sweat without relief ; right side principally and more severely affected than left.
Old local or general rheumatic affections ; internal or external.
Rheumatic or gouty pains.
Stiffness and contraction of joints.

Rest. position. motion

Sitting : upon bed, headache with nausea < ; pain in neck <.
Stooping : headache with nausea.
Sitting down : blackness before eyes >.
Bending head : could scarcely bring it forward again on account of pain.
Could get to sleep if she could get right position.
Pain in hip compels him to change from side to side.
Closing jaws : severe pain in neck.
Attempting to rise : giddiness ; pain in neck.
Can scarcely move arm for pain.
Walking : pain in knee-joints.
Ascending stairs : feeling as if sexual parts had gone to sleep.
Motion : cough < ; pain in back of neck < ; pain across sacrum and dorsum of each hand < ; < pain, but patient desires it.

Nerves

Languid feeling of whole system, with pain in all the limbs, accompanied by chills and horripilations along spine.
Legs felt as if she had no power in them.
Great lassitude and prostration.
General weakness of the whole muscular system.
Faintings.
Limbs lame ; paralyzed.
Paralysis.
Spasms.
A long, horribly maltreated chorea lessened as soon as the foot-sweat, which had been checked, was brought on again by putting feet in a bag with living ants and creating steam with hot stones.
Epilepsy.
Affections of the spinal cord.
Strengthens the nerves.

Sleep

(In sick :) All night dry throat, woke her out of sleep.
(In sick :) Disagreeable sweat during night, awoke with clammy skin.
(In sick :) Passed a dreadful night ; pains suddenly return with violence, only lessening somewhat after midnight.
(In sick :) Could get to sleep if she could get the right position.
Wakes up early and feels that she has had sufficient sleep.
When awaking in morning : headache ; vomiting, with headache ; pain in eyes ; stitches in ear.

Time

Morning : after dressing, giddiness ; headache ; headache with vomiting ; pain in eyes ; earache ; dry throat ; sore throat ; difficult passage of small quantities of flatus ; second stool ; long-lasting erections after
urinating ; violent pain in left side of neck ; itching in armpits ; sweat.
Day : headache ; diarrhœa ; cough with vomiting.
Afternoon : shooting pain in right temple ; headache with nausea and fluttering of heart ; grumbling in teeth.
Evening : forgetful ; vomiting with diarrhœa ; pressure in rectum < ; pain in arm > ; pain goes from left to right arm.
Night : dry throat ; diarrhœa ; cough < ; cough with vomiting ; bruised pain in hip.
After midnight : pains >.

Temperature and weather

Creating steam with hot stones in a bag of live ants brought back foot-sweat.
Hot iron > pain in neck.
Cold water : headache < during and when washing with cold water ; renews burning pains.
Great liability to take cold.
Consequences of cold and wet ; cold bathing ; damp weather.

Fever

(In sick :) Shuddering chilliness with pain in belly.
(In sick :) Clammy skin, awaking her.
(In sick :) Disagreeable sweat during night.
(In sick :) Perspired for about half an hour, but without slightest amelioration of pain in arm.
(In sick :) At noon, after drinking tea, copious sweat without relief.
Sweat without relief.

Attacks, periodicity

Frequently repeated pains in left half of penis.
Attacks : of violent cough with vomiting.
Every morning : thin evacuation with bellyache ; Earlier every day : headache.
Daily from 12 M. to 10 P. M. : headache with nausea.
Third day : menses pale and scanty with bearing down pain in back.
Fourth day : menses darker.

Locality and direction

Right : shooting pains in temple ; lancinating in temple ; boring in temple ; stitches in side of chest ; spasmodic twitching of upper eyelid sensitiveness of ear and temple ; violent penetrating itching at right nipple ; pain from neck down
arm ; severe pain above elbow ; rheumatic pain in elbow-joint, in forearm, in wrist, along course of ulna.
Left : pain in supraorbital region ; sensation of bubble bursting in side of head ; headache in forepart of head and temple ; cracking in ear ; pain in temple ; pain and aching over eye ; stitches in ear ; small abscess on external portion of
meatus auditorius ; side of face and cheek feel as if paralyzed ; pain in decayed molar ; side of throat sore ; a kind of nervous, floating, jerking pain in half of penis ; prickling stitches at nipple ; on side of back ; closing jaws severe pain in
neck ; severe pain down arm ; violent itching of shoulder-blade ; pain from neck down arm ; pain in upper arm above elbow ; lancinating pain in knee-joint.
Pains left then right ; right then left.

Sensations

As if brain was too heavy and large ; sensation like a bubble bursting in forehead ; like a stitch from a dull instrument in vertex ; as from a pressing nail in vertex ; left side of face and cheek as if paralyzed ; as if bruised below navel ; as
if male sexual organs had gone to sleep ; as if muscles were strained and being torn from attachments ; legs feel as if she had no power in them.
Pain : in left supraorbital region ; in forepart of head ; in left temple ; in forehead ; in vertex ; from neck up to back of head ; over left eye ; in both ears ; in right ear extending up into temple ; from neck behind ear ; in
decayed last molar left side ; in neck ; in bowels ; down left arm ; in back ; in upper arm above left elbow ; from left arm to right ; in all limbs.
Severe pain : in vertex ; in neck ; in belly ; across sacrum and dorsum of each hand ; above right elbow ; through pelvis as if from one acetabulum to the other.
Lancinating : in right temple ; in left knee-joint.
Tearing pain : in occiput.
Cutting pain : in head ; into ear.
Shooting pains : from right temple into head.
Boring : in right temporal region.
Stitches : in right side of chest ; in left ear ; in region of left nipple.
Prickling stitches : in region of left nipple ; in left side of back ; on other parts of body.
Pleuritic pains : inner chest and lungs.
Crampy pain : through hip-joint and pelvis.
Cramp : in both feet ; in soles.
Neuralgic pains : in temples.
Rheumatic pain : in right elbow-joint ; in right forearm ; in right wrist ; along course of ulna ; in knee-joints.
Gouty pain : in limbs.
Bearing down pain : in back.
Pressing pain : in ears.
Bruised pain : in hips.
Burning pain : in stomach.
Stinging : at tip of tongue.
Sore pain : over eye.
Jerking pain : in left half of penis ; region of prostate.
Nervous floating pain : in left half of penis ; in region of prostate.
Constrictive pain : in chest.
Dull pain : in whole head ; in region of spleen.
Uneasy pains : in region of heart.
Soreness : at root of tongue ; of throat ; in neck up into head ; of legs.
Burning : of stomach.
Grumbling : in teeth.
Constriction : of sphincter ani.
Spasmodic twitching : of upper eyelid of right eye.
Dull frontal headache.
Dull feeling : in head ; in forehead.
Dulness : of head.
Fulness : in head.
Pressure : at cardiac end of stomach ; in rectum.
Stupid feeling : in head.
Dryness : of throat.
Heaviness : of head ; of eyelids.
Stiffness : of neck ; of joints.
Fluttering : of heart.
Cracking : in left ear.
Buzzing : in ears.
Ringing : in ears.
Tired feeling : in back ; in legs.
Lameness : of limbs.
Itching : of scalp ; of head ; on scrotum ; at right nipple ; on left shoulder-blade ; in armpits.

Tissues

Rheumatic affections ; so-called rheumatic inflammation of eyes ; aural affections and sequela.
Nervous and spasmodic affections.
Nodes around joints, internally and externally.
Watery swellings ; dropsy ; cachexies.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : seat of pain tender.
Pressure : soreness in neck and up into head > ; of both hands behind ears ; > pain in neck.
Contusions ; dislocations.
Atrophy after wounds.
Complaints from overlifting.

Skin

Itch ; cold tumors ; goitre ; leprosy.

Relations

Compatible : after Chamom.
Compare : Apis, Bryon . (rheumatism), Chloral and Urtica urens (nettle-rash), Dulcam . (rheumatism), Frag. ves .
(lack of mammary secretion), Thrombid . (diarrhœa).