Glonoin glon.

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

BRAIN. VASO-MOTORS: CIRCULATION. HEAD (forehead). HEART. Mastoids. Respiration.

Worse

HEAT: ON HEAD. Overheating. OF SUN, lamp, etc. HOT WEATHER. MOTION: SHAKING. JAR. Bending head back. Injury. Wine. Suppressed menses. Fruits. Weight of hat. Hair cut.

Better

Open air. Elevating head. Cool things. Cold application, bathing, etc.

General

A tempestuous remedy, full of VIOLENT PULSATIONS. EBULLITIONS or irregular congestion; general P.; with numbness. UPWARD RUSHES OF BLOOD. As if enlarged, distended or being smaller. Bursting, expansion or enlarged feeling of eyes, head, tongue, etc. Pains that come long after injuries.

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Particulars

Confused, bewildered; loses himself. Sinks down unconscious. Sun-stroke. Apoplexy. Congestion to head in suppressed menses, eclampsia, albuminuria, etc. WAVES; OF TERRIBLE BURSTING, POUNDING HEADACHE, as if standing on head; expanding and contracting or blood surging back and forth from head, < carotids to heart; alternating between temples; < sunshine; < damp days. Cracking, snapping, shocks, explosions or soreness deep in brain. Head lies too heavy on pillow. Pains in malar bones, ending in a headache. Numb, sore vertex. Sharp, shooting behind ears. Red lower eyeballs or lids. Staring, dry, protruding or sunken eyes; lids stick to balls (Guai.). Blind spells. Bluish face. Veins of temples swelled. Heavy tongue. Thick saliva in A.M. Throat feels swelled. Heavy breathing. As of a load on chest. Heart seems full, quivers; strong pulsation, and into (l) neck. Violent palpitation. Cardiac pains; radiate to all parts; toward arms. Cardiac pains, < leaning backward or wine. Neck feels full and stiff. Trembling hands. Awakes fearing apoplexy. Full, tense pulse. Venous pulse. Heat on crown of head and along spine. Burning in small areas or single parts. Heat, with hot sweat. Horrible sinking in epigastrium.

Related

Complementary: Bell. Related: Amy-n. Bell.

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

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Keynote

Nervous temperament; plethoric, florid, sensitive women; persons readily affected. Bad effects of mental excitement, fright, fear, mechanical injuries and their later consequences; from having the hair cut. (Acon., Bell.). Head troubles: from working under gas-light, when heat falls on head; cannot bear heat about the head, heat of stove or walking in the sun (Lach., Nat. c.). Cerebral congestion, or alternate congestion of the head and heart. Head: feels enormously large; as if skull were too small for brain; sunstroke and sun headache; increases and decreases every day with the sun (Kal., Nat. c.). Terrific shock in the head, synchronous with the pulse. Throbbing, pulsating headache; holds head with both hands; could not lie down, "the pillow would beat.". Brain feels too large, full, bursting; blood seems to be pumped upwards; throbs at every jar, step, pulse. Intense congestion of brain from delayed or suppressed menses; headache in place of menses. Headache: occurring after profuse uterine haemorrhage; rush of blood to head, in pregnant women. Violent palpitation, with throbbing in carotids; heart's action labored, oppressed; blood seems to rush to heart, and rapidly to head. Convulsions of children from cerebral congestion; meningitis, during dentition, cases that seem to call for Belladonna. Children get sick in the evening when sitting before and open coal fire, or falling asleep there. Flushes of heat; at the climacteric (Amyl., Bell., Lach.); with the catmenia (Fer., Sang.).

Relations

Compare: Amyl., Bell., Ferr., Gels., Melil., Stram.

Aggravation

In the sun, exposure to sun's rays; gas- light; overheating; jar; stooping; ascending; touch of hat; having the hair cut.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

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

General

Troubles from heat of the head in type-setters, and in men who work under a gas-light steadily, so that heat falls on the head; bad results from sun-stroke; can't bear any heat about the head; can't walk in the sun, must walk in the shade or carry an umbrella; can't bear heat from a stove; great vertigo on assuming an upright posture from rising up in bed; rising from a seat, etc. Heat in the head; throbbing headache. Patient feels lost or feels strange even in a familiar street or in familiar surroundings, things look so strange and unfamiliar.

Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica

J. W. Hutchison · Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica · rewritten from Hering's and other materia medicas

Red line symptom

Confusion of ideas, cannot tell where he is, streets seem strange, and the way home too long. Sensation as if the head was enormously large. Distinct feeling of the pulse in the head, throbbing without pain. Undulating or wave-like motion in the brain. Violent action of the heart, distinct pulsation over the whole body. Bad effects from exposure to the rays of the sun.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

General

Recent German provings of Glonoine confirm the original American provings and clinical indications and bring out very marked nerve disturbances. Great lassitude, no inclination to work; extreme irritability, easily excited by the slightest opposition, ending in congestive head symptoms. The sixth potency alone produced itching all over body with later acne and furuncle formation, also bulimy.

Great remedy for congestive headaches, hyperæmia of the brain from excess of heat or cold. Excellent for the intercranial, climacteric disturbances, or due to menstrual suppression. Children get sick when sitting before an open fire. Surging of blood to head and heart. Tendency to sudden and violent irregularities of the circulation. Violent convulsions, associated with cerebral congestion. Sensation of pulsation throughout body. Pulsating pains. Cannot recognize localities. Sciatica in other-omatous subjects, with cold shriveled limbs; seasickness.

Head

Confusion, with dizziness. Effects of sunstroke; heat on head, as in type-setters and workers under gas and electric light. Head heavy, but cannot lay it on pillow. Cannot bear any heat about head. Better from uncovering head. Throbbing headache. Angio-spastic neuralgia of head and face. Very irritable. Vertigo on assuming upright position. Cerebral congestion. Head feels enormously large, as if skull were too small for brain. Sun headaches; increases and decreases with the sun. Shocks in head, synchronous with pulse. Headache in place of menses. Rush of blood to head in pregnant women. Threatened apoplexy. Meningitis.

Eyes

See everything half light, half dark. Letters appear smaller. Sparks before eyes.

Mouth

Pulsating toothache.

Ears

Throbbing; each beat of heart is heard in ears; full feeling.

Face

Flushed, hot, livid, pale; sweaty; pains in root of nose; faceache. Dusky face.

Throat

Neck feels full. Collars must be opened. Chokes and swells up under ears.

Stomach

Gastralgia in anæmic patients with feeble circulation. Nausea and vomiting. Faint, gnawing, and empty feeling at pit of stomach. Abnormal hunger.

Abdomen

Constipation with itching, painful hæmorrhoids, with pinching in abdomen before and after stool. Diarrhœa; copious blackish, lumpy stools.

Female

Menses delayed, or sudden cessation with congestion to head. Climacteric flushing.

Heart

Laborious action. Fluttering. Palpitation with dyspnœa. Cannot go uphill. Any exertion brings on rush of blood to heart and fainting spells. Throbbing in the whole body to finger-tips.

Extremities

Itching all over, worse extremities. Pain in left biceps. Drawing pain in all limbs. Backache.

Modalities

Better, brandy. Worse, in sun; exposure to sun-rays, gas, open fire; jar, stooping, having hair cut; peaches, stimulants; lying down; from 6 am to noon; left side.

Relationship

Antidote: Acon.

Compare: Amyl nit; Bellad; Opium; Stram; Verat vir.

Dose

Sixth to thirtieth potency.

For palliative (non-homeopathic) purposes, in angina pectoris, asthma, heart-failure, etc, physiological doses-i.e, 1-100 of drop-must be given. Here it is the great emergency remedy. The conditions calling for it are small, wiry pulse, pallor, arterial spasm, anæmia of brain, collapse, feeble heart, syncope, dicrotic pulse, vertigo,-the opposite of those indicating a homeopathic dosage. Often thus used to lower the arterial tension in chronic interstitial nephritis.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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

Leaders

Sudden local congestion, especially to head and chest; bursting headache rising up from neck, with great throbbing and sense of expansion as if to burst; cannot bear the least jar.

Can't bear anything on the head, especially hat; or pressure as of a hat.

Over-heating in the sun, or sunstroke.

This is, in the first place, one of our great head remedies. It has intense pain in the head, with great throbbing and sensation of fullness and constriction of the vessels of the neck. There are so many symptoms attending this condition of congestion that it is not wise to try to give them all here. I used, in my early practice, to carry a small vial of the 1st dilution in my case on purpose for those who were inclined to sneer at the young doctor and his sweet medicine, and many a disbeliever have I convinced, in about five or ten minutes, that there might be power in small doses of sweet medicine, by dropping on the tongue a drop of this preparation, for it seldom failed to produce its characteristic throbbing headache within that time. One lady, not willing to acknowledge that it affected her, rose to leave the room, and fainted and would have fallen to the floor if I had not caught her. No one ever asked after that experiment for any more proof of the power of homœopathic medicine. This throbbing headache, seeming to arise from the neck, is very characteristic, and the throbbing is not a mere sensation but is visible in the carotid arteries. The vessels are full to bursting, and if their walls were not healthy there is danger of apoplexy. No remedy equals this one for producing sudden and severe congestion of the head, and none can cure it quicker when indicated by the symptoms. The remedies that stand nearest Glonoine in their effect on the head I believe to be Belladonna and Melilotus. Belladonna and Glonoine both have the fullness, pain and throbbing, but that of Glonoine is more intense and sudden in its onset, and, on the other hand, subsides more rapidly when relieved. Again, Glonoine is better adapted to the first or congestive stage of inflammatory diseases of the brain, while Belladonna goes further and may still be the appropriate remedy after the inflammatory stage is fully initiated. Belladonna is better by bending the head backward; Glonoine worse. Belladonna is made worse by having the head uncovered, and suffers from having the hair cut; Glonoine must have the head uncovered, can't bear to wear his hat, or wants the hair cut. Belladonna is worse lying down, even if he keeps still; Glonoine, though sometimes worse after lying down, is also sometimes better when lying still. One symptom very characteristic of Glonoine is, that the patient carries the head very carefully, for the least jar or shaking of it greatly aggravates the pain. Another peculiar symptom is, it seems to the patient that there is not only throbbing, but there is an undulating sensation as if the brain were moving in waves synchronous with the pulse. There is more disturbance of the heart action with Glonoine than with Belladonna, though both have it strongly. Glonoine has a sensation of rush of blood to the heart or chest.

Melilotus also has great congestion to the head, with pain and sense of fullness. Not being so thoroughly proven as Belladonna and Glonoine, we cannot so clearly indicate the exact place for it, but there is one very prominent symptom which always makes one think of it, viz.: "Glowing redness of the face." No remedy that I know of has it more strongly. Glonoine and Belladonna may both have very red face; on the other hand, a pale face, with the other congestive symptoms, does not contraindicate them, but does Melilotus. Then, again, with Melilotus the head symptoms are often relieved by a profuse epistaxis, which is also another very prominent symptom of this remedy. I cured a very bad case of typhus cerebralis, and also a case of insanity of long standing, with this remedy, being guided to it by these symptoms.

"Loses his way in well-known streets" is a symptom of Glonoine that has several times been confirmed. The local congestions of Glonoine are often found in different diseases; for instance, climacteric flushings are often most felt in the head. Glonoine cures such cases. It is also useful in puerperal convulsions. And another symptom often present in these cases is, a sense as if the head were expanding from fullness. Now look out for convulsions and give Glonoine, especially if there be albumen in the urine. Congestion to the head from suppressed or retarded menses sometimes finds a remedy here; also, different pathological conditions of the heart, but the symptoms must be present.

For sunstroke it is probably oftener indicated than any other remedy; also for the after-sufferings therefrom. Not only from sunstroke, but from other bad effects of radiate heat; for instance, children get sick in the night after sitting too long or falling asleep before an open coal fire.

Then, again, warm room increases the headache and warm bed the faceache.

"Burning between the shoulders" is another symptom of this remedy, like Lycopodium and Phosphorus. Ammonium muriaticum and Lachnanthes have the opposite. While we are here now I will call attention to another remedy, which, for flushings and congestions to head and face, resembles Glonoine, that is, Amyl. nit.

Text Book of Materia Medica

Adolph Lippe · Text Book of Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Lippe d. 1888; public domain)

Mind and Disposition

Fear, with the sensation of constriction of the chest and as if the neck were swollen, or as if something unpleasant would happen to him. Unusually bright and loquacious, with great flow of ideas. Loses his way in the known streets, the walk seems too long ; the chin feels too long.

Head

Unsteady gait. Giddiness when the head is moved. Heaviness in the head, principally in the forehead. Dull headache with warm perspiration in the forehead. Fulness in the head, as if the brain was expanding itself, were moving in waves. Congestion of blood to the head (apoplexy). Pulsation in the forehead, in the temples, on the vertex ; when walking every step is felt in the neck, when moving the head. Stitches in the temples or the right side of the forehead. Sore and bruised feeling in the brain, worse when shaking the head. The pain, heat and fulness in the head ascend from the chest, neck or back part of the head. Shaking aggravates the headache, as well as stooping motion, ascending steps. External pressure relieves. Waking in the open air, uncovering the head, relieves. Headache with accelerated pulse, red face, perspiration on the face ; he becomes unconscious.

Eyes

Eyes dull, staring, sunken. The whites of the eye is red, the eyes protrude, look wild. Protruding pains. Heat in the balls of the eyes, lids, around the eyes. In the eyeballs, stitches, twitchings, soreness, pressure. Sparks, flashes before the eyes. The letters appear smaller. Black spots before and obscuration of the eyes, with fainting.

Ears

Sensation of fulness, in and around the ears. Stitches in the ears, the ears feel as if closed. Ringing, singing in the ears.

Nose

Pain at the root of the nose. The headache extends into the nose.

Face

Paleness of the face with heat and congestion of blood to the head and chest. Heat in the face with pulsations in the head and palpitations of the heart. Redness of the face, especially the upper part of it, with headache. Itching, especially in the middle of the face. Pain and stiffness of the articulation of the jaw. Sensation as if the under lip were swollen.

Mouth and Throat

Pulsating toothache with headache. Tongue swollen with pricking it, the tongue smarts. Sensation of soreness and swelling on the roof of the mouth with pulsation. The soft palate feels contracted and dry. In the throat tickling, heat, soreness.

Stomach and Abdomen

Nausea causing perspiration. Nausea with and caused by the headache, with colic ; congestion of blood to the head and chest and pale face. Gnawing in the pit of the stomach. Sensation of emptiness in the pit of the stomach. Sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach, especially on stooping. Colic, cutting pain principally below the navel, wakening one in the morning before and after loose stools. Rumbling in the lower part of the abdomen, principally when lying on the left side.

Stool and Anus

Diarrhœic stools with rumbling and discharges of flatulency, beginning in the morning and lasting all day.

Urinary Organs

Increased secretion of pale (albuminous) urine ; has to rise frequently during the night and must pass large quantities of albuminous urine.

Genital Organs

Women. Menstruation suppressed by Glonoine. During the menstruation, congestion of blood to the head and chest, headache, fainting. During pregnancy headache, congestions of blood to the head and chest.

Respiratory Organs

Constriction of the chest. Oppression of the chest alternating with headache. Desire to take a long deep inspiration. Sighing. Congestions to the chest. Palpitation of the heart with heat in the face, accelerated pulse and pulsation of the carotid arteries. Severe stitches from the heart, extending into the back. In the heart sensation of fulness, heaviness ; and heat, with labored beating of the heart.

Back and Neck

The neck feels weak and tired, cannot support the head. Stiffness of the neck, clothing seems to be too tight. On the neck sensation of fulness, tension, pulsation. Pain in the whole spinal column, or heat and chilliness. Burning heat between the shoulder-blades.

Extremities

Upper. In the arms restlessness, weakness, want of circulation. Sensation of weakness ; and numbness in the left arm. Feels the beating of all the pulses in the tips ; of the fingers, accompanied by trembling of the fingers. Lower. Weakness and numbness of the left thigh. Weakness of the legs, the knees and ankles give way. Restlessness in the limbs causes him to rise.

Sleep

Yawning with headache, congestion of blood to the head. Sleepiness early in the evening. He is difficult to waken.

Generalities

Weakness as from loss of sleep. Fainting with consciousness. Unconscious falling down. Pulsations, tingling, thrills, and a peculiar sensation of warmth through the body, extending from above downward. Convulsions (from congestions to the head) ; the fingers are spread apart and stretched out (left side).

Fever

Pulse accelerated, irregular, intermitting, full and hard, small and rapid. Heat, especially in the face, ascending from the pit of the stomach to the head. Perspiration principally in the face, after sleeping. Perspiration relieves the nausea.

Conditions

Bad effects of mental excitement, fright, fear, mechanical contusions and their later consequences. Bad effects from having the hair cut. Bad effects from being exposed to the rays of the sun.

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

Nitro-glycerine. C 3 H 5 (NO 3 ) O 3 . Dilutions with alcohol.

Clinical

Angina pectoris . Aphasia. Apoplexy. Brain, congestion of . Bright's disease. Convulsions. Epilepsy. Epistaxis. Fright, effects of. Goître. Headache . Heart, affections of; palpitation of; jarring, effects of. Location, sense of, lost. Mania. Meningitis. Menses, suppression of. Neuralgia . Paralysis. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Sea-sickness. Snow-headache. Sun-headache. Sunstroke . Toothache. Trauma.

Characteristics

"Nitro-glycerine was discovered by Sobrero in 1847, but none could be obtained for physiological experiment until Morris Davis, a Philadelphia chemist, in the same year, after long and laborious trials, under direction of Hering, succeeded in producing the substance in sufficient quantities for proving." I quote this from the Guiding Symptoms. Glon . is one of the many monuments of Hering's therapeutic genius. It is to him that we owe the introduction of this notable remedy into the materia medica, and into medicine. The note of the action of Glon . is a tendency to sudden and violent irregularities of the circulation. It acts very quickly and very violently. The "signature" of this potent explosive may be said to be "bursting" and "expansion." Bursting, throbbing headaches; sensations of expanding in the head and elsewhere. Throbbing of carotids; violent action of heart; rush of blood to head; flushes of heat rising from chest to head, then throbbing pain in head. The characteristic neuralgias of Glon . are accompanied with much throbbing, and are often < at night, preventing sleep. Supra-orbital neuralgia, pulsating; retinal congestion from exposure to strong light. Facial neuralgia, extending through head. Cardiac neuralgia (angina pectoris) with radiating pains.

Guernsey, with his usual graphic terseness, says that Glon . is suited to "Troubles of the head in type-setters, and in men who work under a gas-light steadily, so that the heat falls on the head; bad results from sunstroke; can't bear any heat about the head ; can't walk in the sun, must walk in the shade or carry an umbrella; can't bear heat from a stove; great vertigo on assuming an upright posture, from rising up in bed, rising from a seat, &c. Heat in the head; throbbing headache." The great sensitiveness to the least jar, which is a very marked feature of the Glon . headache, causes the patient to carry his head very carefully in order to avoid the chance of it. The headache is in the whole head and every part ─ forehead, vertex, occiput. Many pains appear in occiput and base of brain; gnawing in occiput; sore pain; pressure; severe pain in occiput, extending to eyes and temples; sensation as if something were moving in nerves from back of neck upward to head. The eyes may be fixed or protrude; aversion to bright light; black spots before sight. Face flushed or pale. Climacteric disturbances.

Fainting, sudden unconsciousness; convulsions, especially during labour. Nausea and vomiting of cerebral origin. Violent, stabbing, neuralgic pains, so violent as to make patient frantic, he wants to escape, to jump out of window. Bad effects of fear; horrible apprehension; fear of being poisoned. A characteristic mental condition is loss of sense of location: "well-known streets seem strange to him." Among the peculiar sensations are: Chin feels too long. Chest feels screwed together. Brain as if expanding; as if moving in waves; as if hanging with head downwards; as if something were pumped into vertex; as if everything were crowded out at forehead; as if warm water were running upwards from nape of neck; as if the neck were gripped by a hand; as if some one were pulling eyes from within outward. Noise in left ear as if it came from heart. Lower lip feels swollen. As if heart would rise to throat. Pains are: Bursting; throbbing; pulsative; tearing; piercing; stabbing; gnawing. Burning between shoulders. Sitting or lying still, or walking in cold air > headache. Bending forward; bending head backward, and almost every movement < headache. Rest < pain in knee. Excessive heat and cold = hyperæmia of brain. Heat generally < ; cold applications and cool air > ; but cold water applied to head < head symptoms, even = spasms. < Damp weather. Bad effects of having hair cut; of exposure to sun or fire heat. All summer, headache < every day with the sun. < From wine. Pains from within outward; from front to back. Bad effect of too much riding or driving; sea-sickness; < from jarring. Pressure > headache. Cannot bear weight of hair; clothing seems too tight. Suited to: Florid, plethoric, sensitive women; nervous, sanguine, readily affected persons. Old scars break out again.

Relations

Antidoted by: Acon., Camph., Coff., Nux v. Compare: Amyl nit.; Act. r. (waving in brain); Petrol. and Crotal. h. (loss of location); Bell. (cephalic cry but not as marked in Bell.; also Bell. has > bending head back, and > covering head; Glon. > uncovered); Apis, Hyo. (fears being poisoned); Gels. (inclination to jump out of window); Stram. Sang. (headache with the sun; ear sensitive to jar); Nit. ac. and Bell. (sensitiveness to jar); Melilot. (headache with crimson face) Lyc. and Phos. (burning between shoulders); Dig. and Diosc. (headache extending into nose); Sec. (fingers spread apart).

Causation

Sun. Bright snow. Fire-heat. Fear or fright. Jarring. Injuries.

Mind

Falling down, with loss of consciousness and alternate palpitation of the heart, and congestion of the head. ─ Fear; throat feels swollen, chest as if screwed together; apprehensive of approaching death; fears she has been poisoned. ─ Fear, as if something unpleasant would happen to him. ─ Unusually bright and loquacious, with great flow of ideas. ─ Confusion of ideas; cannot tell where he is; well-known streets seem strange; way home too long; forgets on which side of the street he lives. ─ Great mental agitation (with headache); frantic, attempts to run away; to jump out of window. ─ Cephalic cry. ─ The chin feels too long.

Head

Vertigo; < from stooping or moving head; in open air. ─ Giddiness when the head is moved. ─ Heaviness in the head, principally in forehead. ─ Dull headache with warm perspiration on forehead. ─ Headache with accelerated pulse, red face, perspiration on the face; he becomes unconscious. ─ Headache < from the heat of the sun; > in the open air and from pressure. ─ Headache, throbbing, &c., during or in place of menses. ─ Fulness in the head, as if the brain was expanding itself, were moving in waves. ─ Fulness in the head; distinct feeling of the pulse in the head; throbbing without pain. ─ Sensation as if the blood were mounting to the head. ─ Congestion of blood to the head (apoplexy). ─ Pulsation in the forehead, in the temples, on the vertex; when walking every step is felt in the neck, when moving the head. ─ Throbbing in the head; in forehead; in temples; in vertex; in occiput; < when moving; > when sitting still and lying and from pressure. ─ Throbbing in the temporal arteries, which were raised, and felt like cords. ─ Stitches in temples or r. side of forehead. ─ Sore and bruised feeling in the brain, worse when shaking the head. ─ Sensation of soreness through the whole head; is afraid to shake the head, as it seems that it would make the head drop to pieces. ─ The pain, heat, and fulness in the head ascend from the chest, neck, or back part of the head. ─ Severe pain in the occiput, extending to the eyes and temples. ─ Shaking < the headache, as well as stooping motion, ascending steps; external pressure > ; walking in the open air, uncovering the head > . ─ Cracking sensation in the brain. ─ Skull seems too small, and as if the brain were attempting to burst the skull; violent action of the heart, and a distinct pulsation over the whole body. ─ Shocks in the brain synchronous with the pulse. ─ Undulating or wave-like motion in the brain. ─ Hemicrania; sees half light, half dark. ─ Gnawing in occiput.

Eyes

Eyes dull, staring, sunken. ─ The white of the eye is red, the eyes protrude, look wild. ─ Eyes feel as if some one were pulling them from within outward. ─ Pressing, protruding pains in eyes. ─ In the eyeballs, stitches, twitchings, soreness, pressure. ─ Pupils dilated, eyes rolled upward. ─ Heat in the balls of the eyes, lids, and around the eyes. ─ Sparks, flashes before the eyes. ─ The letters appear smaller. ─ As if focus of r. eye were suddenly displaced; sees everything half light and half dark. ─ Black spots before, and obscuration of the eyes; with fainting.

Ears

Sensation of fulness, in and around the ears. ─ Ears sensitive to jarring. ─ Deafness, ears feet as if stopped up. ─ Stitches in the ears, the ears feel as if closed. ─ Throbbing, piercing from within outward in r. ear. ─ Ringing, singing, or cracking in the ears. ─ Ringing in the ears, audible pulse.

Nose

Pain at root of nose. ─ The headache extends into the nose. ─ Epistaxis on going out into the heat of the sun, face flushed, hot, red.

Face

Paleness of the face with heat and congestion of blood to head and chest. ─ Pale during heat, sunstroke, congestions, &c.; flushed and hot with headache. ─ Heat in the face with pulsations in the head and palpitations of the heart. ─ Redness of the face, esp. upper part of it, with headache. ─ Redness of the face, which comes and goes. ─ Itching, esp. in the middle of the face. ─ Pain and stiffness of the articulation of the jaw. ─ Sensation as if the under lip were swollen.

Teeth

Throbbing pain in all the teeth. ─ Pulsating toothache with headache. ─ Stabbing pains in gums r. side passing to l. without ceasing in r.; < from hot, > from cold applications.

Mouth

Taste: bitter with nausea; aromatic; sweet; warm; leaves a fatty taste. ─ Tongue numb, as if burnt; prickling, stinging. ─ Tongue feels swelled and raw with spasmodic twitchings. ─ Tongue: milk-white without coating; coated heavily at back. ─ Difficulty in conversing from diminished power of tongue and confusion of ideas. ─ Tongue swollen with pricking in it, the tongue smarts. ─ Sensation of soreness and swelling on the roof of the mouth with pulsation.

Throat

The soft palate feels contracted and dry. ─ Itching of the soft palate and throat. ─ In the throat tickling, heat, soreness. ─ Sensation as if the throat were swelling.

Appetite

Appetite lost. ─ Wants cold water; also from dry parched feeling. ─ Increased desire to smoke. ─ Wine < all symptoms.

Stomach

Nausea causing perspiration. ─ Nausea with and caused by the headache, with colic; congestion of blood to the head and chest, and pale face. ─ Nausea and vomiting in brain-congestions, or during sunstroke. ─ Faint feeling at pit of the stomach; also with throbbing. ─ Sensation of emptiness in the pit of the stomach. ─ Sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach, esp. on stooping. ─ Gnawing in the pit of the stomach.

Abdomen

Colic, cutting pain principally below the navel, wakening one in the morning, before and after loose stools. ─ Gall-stone colic. ─ Rumbling in lower part of the abdomen, principally when lying on l. side.

Stool and Anus

Diarrhœic stools with rumbling and discharges of flatus, beginning in the morning and lasting all day. ─ Diarrhœa; copious, loose, blackish, lumpy stools. ─ Morning diarrhœa with sharp burning; with rumbling. ─ After eating peaches diarrhœa evening and night. ─ Constipation and hæmorrhoids which itched and pained. ─ At an unaccustomed time, a hard and unusual stool; pinching in abdomen before and after it. ─ No stool.

Urinary Organs

Increased secretion of pale (albuminous) urine; has to rise frequently during the night, and must pass large quantities of albuminous urine. ─ Tubal nephritis, with headache, brought on by walking in the sun; numbness in arms and hands alternating with intense tingling.

Female Sexual Organs

Menstruation suppressed by Glon . ─ Instead of menses congestion to head; face pale; worse in warm room; fainting; throbbing. ─ During menstruation congestion of blood to head and chest; headache; fainting. ─ At climaxis, flushes of heat, pressure in head, nausea, loss of senses, vertigo, swelling of feet. ─ During pregnancy headache, congestions of blood to the head and chest. ─ Eclampsia; unconscious; face bright-red; puffed; pulse full, hard; urine copious and albuminous.

Respiratory Organs

Inclination to deep respiration. ─ Desire to take a long, deep inspiration. ─ Sighing.

Chest

Constriction of the chest. ─ Constriction and oppression of the chest. ─ Oppression of the chest alternating with headache. ─ Congestions to the chest.

Heart

Palpitation of the heart with heat in the face, accelerated pulse and pulsation of the carotid arteries. ─ Violent action of the heart, distinct pulsation over the whole body. ─ Excessive perceptible palpitation of the heart. ─ In the heart sensation of fulness, heaviness, and heat, with laboured beating of the heart. ─ Pulse accelerated; rises and falls alternately; low and feeble in sunstroke. ─ Laborious action of the heart, oppression. ─ Sharp pains in heart. ─ Severe stitches from the heart, extending into the back. ─ Purring noise in region of heart when lying, pulse intermittent.

Neck and Back

Tightness around the neck. ─ The neck feels weak and tired, cannot support the head. ─ Stiffness of the neck, clothing seems to be too tight. ─ On the neck sensation of fulness, tension, pulsation. ─ Burning heat between the shoulder-blades. ─ Hot sensations down back. ─ Pain in the whole spinal column, or heat and chilliness.

Upper Limbs

In the arms restlessness, weakness, want of circulation. ─ Sensation of weakness and numbness in l. arm. ─ Feels the beating of all the pulses in the tips of the fingers, accompanied by trembling of the fingers.

Lower Limbs

Weakness and numbness of l. thigh. ─ Weakness of the legs, the knees and ankles give way (during headache). ─ Limbs relaxed, motionless in sunstroke. ─ Acute pain in l. knee on moving, seems to be deep in joint without much heat or swelling; sudden twinges or pricks while at rest, is obliged to rise and straighten limb. ─ Jerking of limbs with loss of consciousness. ─ Restlessness in the limbs causes him to rise. ─ (Sciatica.). ─ Cold feet, with nausea, palpitation.

Generalities

Fainting; with consciousness. ─ Great weakness and prostration. ─ Unconscious falling down. ─ Painless throbbing in the whole body. ─ Pulsations, tingling, thrills, and a peculiar sensation of warmth through the body, extending from above downward. ─ Convulsions (from congestions to the head); the fingers are spread apart and stretched out. ─ Seeming plethora, rapid deviations in distributions of blood.

Sleep

Yawning with headache, congestion of blood to the head. ─ Sleepiness early in the evening. ─ He is difficult to waken. ─ Weakness as from loss of sleep.

Fever

Pulse accelerated, irregular, intermitting, full and hard, small and rapid. ─ Chill: after getting heated; alternates with sweat; with vomiting; head as if screwed up; intermittent fever. ─ Heat, esp. in face, ascending from pit of stomach to head. ─ Warmth general; flushes of heat; waves of heat upward. ─ Perspiration principally in the face, after sleeping. ─ Perspiration on forehead. ─ Profuse sweat, mostly on face and chest. ─ Perspiration relieves the nausea.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

Mind

Loses senses, sinks down unconscious ; congestion alternately to head and heart.
Recognized no one ; repulsed her husband and children ; raved, screamed, and wished to rush from house ; jumped out of bed, but fell because her knees gave way.
She could not remember which side of the street her house was on.
Well-known streets seem strange ; way home too long.
Loses his way in the known streets.
The chin feels too long.
Loss of location ; commenced about ten years ago ; loses himself, even when walking in streets that he has traveled in for years ; all right in regard to everything else.
Long forgotten old offenses come back to him.
Frantic ; attempted to jump from the window. θ Headache.
After an attack of epilepsy patient awoke in a state of violent mania, struggling with great violence ; eyeballs projecting, mouth half open, looked as if he were contemplating some afflicting sight, while he rapidly reiterated an unmeaning monosyllable, doe-doe-doe, in a painfully
plaintive voice.
Unusually bright and loquacious, with great flow of ideas.
Great mental agitation ; attempts to run away ; attempted to spring from window.
During intermissions of pain, she shudders and weeps bitterly.
Disinclined to speak ; would scarcely answer.
Fear ; throat feels swollen ; chest as if screwed together ; apprehensive of approaching death ; fears she has been poisoned.
Bad effects of mental excitement, fright, fear, mechanical contusions and their later consequences.

Sensorium

Heaviness in head, principally in forehead.
Fulness in head, as if all blood had mounted to head ; very disagreeable sensation, but without pain.
Fulness in head, as if brain was expanding itself, were moving in waves.
Sensation in head as if he were hanging with head downwards, and as if there was a great rush of blood to head in consequence.
Determination of blood to head sometimes preceding apoplexy, also for that which often occurs in softening and tumors of brain.
Could not allow his head to be on a level with his body, but must have it elevated, it felt full, could not see objects distinctly ; dizzy.
Giddiness when the head is moved.
Confusion and vertigo ; after stooping.
Throbbing, pulsation and confusion of all senses ; sensation of balancing, requiring a constant effort to keep head erect, which inclined to droop as on going to sleep.
Undulating sensation in head.
Head feels larger.
Vertigo ; confusion, faintness, black spots before eyes ; < stooping or moving head ; < in open air ; with headache ; with nausea ; in sunstroke ; after a violent fall on head ; when rising in morning.
Congestive vertigo ; forerunner of apoplexy ; intoxication and heaviness of head, with bending head forward ; reeling, trembling, falling ; headache ; heat in head ; redness of face ; photophobia ; injection of conjunctivæ ; flickering before
eyes ; buzzing in ears ; pulsation of carotids ; < sitting up.
Nausea, then unconsciousness, with convulsive action of facial muscles ; face pale, breathing stertorous, feeble pulse.
Sinking down unconscious, with congestion, alternating to head and heart.
Syncope, nausea, face pale or livid ; beating in head.

Inner head

Severe pain in forehead ; throbbing in temples, < from walking.
Dull headache in forehead over eyes ; < by use of eyes and mental effort ; becomes a throbbing pain after rapid motion, felt both front and back of head ; action of heart very easily excited.
Tensive pain over eyes and nose, also behind ears, followed by choking sensation about throat.
Headache beginning at root of nose.
Crushing weight across forehead.
Piercing pain from within outward, towards middle of forehead, more upward.
Pain in vertex and sides of head, as if pressed together.
Headache in forepart of head with nausea ; in left side, with vomiting.
Throbbing in front of head.
Painful pulsation from forehead to vertex.
When walking every step is felt in neck, when moving the head.
Great heat and congestion in head with severe pains in forehead, throbbing in temples.
Pain in forehead, < shaking head.
Dull headache in forehead, with warm sweat.
Front of head and vertex excessively hot.
Feels as if ice-cold sweat were on forehead, which, however, is not there.
Head felt throbbing and bursting, especially above ears and at temples ; choking sensation, as if ligature were tied around neck, which prevented blood from returning from head.
Throbbing in whole head, especially in temples and over eyes, with excessive heat in head ; < morning ; > sitting still and lying, also by pressure upon it.
Pain most intense from 5 to 10 minutes, during which she shudders and weeps bitterly ; during intermissions throbbing in temples ; while pain is raging, sight impaired.
Violent pressing pain in temples, which went undulating and raging throughout whole head, especially at last in region of saggital suture.
Neuralgia, nervous temperament ; sudden pain starting from decayed inferior molar tooth and concentrates in temple ; head feels heavy but cannot lay it on pillow.
Stitches in temples or right side of forehead.
Pressure and throbbing in temples.
Pressure and pain from within out in both temples.
Fulness in head, feels pulse in head, especially in temples, could count the beats.
Sharp, piercing pain in left temple, daily for several months.
Temporal and carotid arteries beating violently.
Throbbing in temporal arteries, and sense of constriction about neck.
Throbbing in temporal arteries, which were raised and felt like whip-cords.
Heat in head, with throbbing.
Flushes of heat and congestion to head.
Suddenly sensation as if whole head were crowded with blood.
Constant sensation of fulness in vertex, increasing all the time as if something were pumped in.
Sensation of weight, or painful fulness at vertex.
Brain feels as if too heavy and too large for skull, with raving headache.
Sensation as if skull were too small ; as if brain were attempting to burst it.
Cracking sensation in brain, obliging him to hold on to head during every movement, to prevent an apparent threatened rupture of cranium.
Feels every pulsation in head.
Shocks in brain, synchronous with every pulsation of arteries.
Intense throbbing pain over whole head, flushed face.
Painless throbbing in head, extending under frontal bone to temple.
Throbbing : in temples ; in vertex ; in occiput ; in whole head.
Most violent throbbing, tearing pains, before, during, after or instead of menstruation.
Old nurse with chronic heart disease frequently suffered from severe headaches in attacks that lasted all day, especially during wet, dull weather ; the pain is tearing, and extends from nape to vertex, where it is throbbing ; < from motion or stooping ; > lying
still ; full sensation like rush of blood in nape, neck and head.
Throbbing beginning in left breast, suddenly darting up into head, throbbing as if something were moving in waves to head, < from motion.
Throbbing headache, with vertigo and flushes of heat to the face and head ; she felt as if sore inside of her head when she moved it.
Headache in vertex and crown, like waves rising and falling ; excessive, so that she longs for death, with small, weak pulse.
Brain as if moving in waves.
Undulating, dull pain in middle of brain.
A lady could not lie upon back or either side, because "the pillow would beat ;" she could not remember which side of street her house was on.
Pressive, throbbing headache, with obvious enlargement of cutaneous veins of head and face.
Pulsating headache, with sensation of soreness when moving head, and drowsiness with vertigo after stooping.
Headache on top of head, which, without being throbbing, increased and diminished just as waves rise and fall, yet it was not an undulating pain, and in these fluxes and refluxes it increased to such a terrible height that death would have been welcome to her ; cold water gave some
relief.
Racking pain with raving, heat in head, redness of face, red, protruding eyes, wiry pulse of 92.
Head began to throb, and for an hour all arteries in head felt as distinct as though they had been dissected out, and were on exhibition ; head was full of blood ; motion < throbbing and pain ; this condition lasted all day.
Children scream with pain in head, exclaiming, "My head! my head!"
Holds head with both hands ; presses sinciput.
Burning pain in middle of head after brain fever, > by pressure ; every excitement causes it.
Pain deep in brain, shaking is without influence.
Sore and bruised feeling in brain, < when shaking head.
Face purple, vertex hot, bloodshot eyes, knew no one.
Headache with red face, accelerated pulse, sweat on face, unconsciousness ; > in open air, after sleep, after vomiting.
Sensation of soreness through whole head, is afraid to shake head ; it seems to him as if head would drop to pieces.
Congestive headache, sensation of fluttering in head, sensation of constriction in vessels of head, expansive pressure, flushed face, drowsiness, venous congestion to abdomen.
Congestion to head in pregnant women, with pale face, loss of senses, and falling down unconscious, cold sweat.
Frequent congestion to head in an old woman, causing a sensation of coldness.
Congestion to head alternates with congestion to heart.
Hyperemia from excessive cold or heat.
Habitual hemicrania ; as if focus of right eye were suddenly displaced ; sees everything half light and half dark, with a sensation as if he must die, nausea, is obliged to sit down, dimness before eyes like a cloud, followed by most violent headache, with repeated vomiting,
after which it grows better.
Hemicrania from excessive use of wine.
Eyeballs protrude during headache ; red capillaries in eye, as if injected.
Feels deadly sick with headache, like sea-sickness.
Headache : with heat in face ; with nausea and vomiting ; with increased secretion of urine.
Violent, heavy beating in head, from back to front, as if it would crowd everything out at forehead.
First, pain in occiput, then in vertex.
Headache beginning in occiput and spreading from there over whole head.
Pressure and throbbing extends to back of neck.
Congestion to occiput like pressure ; such excessive determination to occiput that it seems as if he would lose his reason.
Congestion to head, sudden, violent ; throbbing felt with every pulse, at every step, or jarring ; blood mounts from neck, throat or chest ; from occiput toward eyes.
Flushes of heat rising from chest to head, then throbbing in head.
Pain, heat and fulness in head ascend from chest, neck or back part of head.
Pains seem to ascend from chest and neck to occiput ; pain the whole length of spine ; oppression of chest ; blindness, with faintness and nausea ; congestion to head with sense of expansion ; can't bear heat about head. θ Cerebro-spinal
meningitis.
Violent throbbing headache with sense of expansion ; blindness with faintness and nausea ; pale face ; pain through whole length of spine.
Great rigidity of occipito-frontalis.
During day a cataleptic state of occipito-frontalis muscle, and a degree of obtuseness of brain.
After overheating, with copious sweat, headache.
The rays of the sun on his head were not to be borne, and his head would not allow the hat to touch it.
Headache begins with warm weather, and lasts all summer, increases and decreases every day with the sun ; great sensitiveness to rays of sun, and to pressure from covering of head.
After working in sun ; throbbing headache gradually growing more severe ; fever ; face yellowish-red ; eyes staring, dull, glassy, pupil contracted ; pulse small and quick ; would not speak, would scarcely give a reply ; frequent retching.
Headaches produced by powerful rays of sun.
Troubles of head in type-setters, and in men who work under gas-light steadily, so that heat falls on head ; bad results from sunstroke ; can't bear any heat about head ; can't walk in sun, must walk in shade or carry an umbrella ; can't bear heat from stove.
Headache on damp, rainy days, after taking cold, much sitting and mental exertion.
Apoplexia serosa with small, thread-like, very quick pulse.
Hydrocephalus ; cri encephalique.
Symptoms of cerebro-spinal meningitis, with confusion and loss of memory ; in one case temporary blindness ; intense pain in cervical and occipital regions, and in eyes ; tingling pulsation in fingers ; irregular pulse ; tightening around neck.
Headache worse : from shaking or jarring head ; stooping ; bending it backwards ; after lying down ; when ascending steps ; in damp weather ; in sun ; while working under gas-light ; after overheating, with copious sweat ; from
touch of hat ; cold water (even causing spasms) ; reading ; writing ; wine.
Frightful headache, runs about room with head pressed between hands ; as if head would burst ; sometimes knocks head against wall ; pulse hard, full, quick ; face red ; occasionally violent shoots in head making him cry out ;
jerkings through body.
Headache of a chlorotic patient, pain so intense that she attempted to spring from window.
Violent headache after romping, overheating, sweat and taking cold.
Violent congestive headache, eyes painful and bloodshot ; never relieved under 24 hours ; had taken cathartics ; these attacks every twelve or fifteen days for many years ; found her lying on a bench holding head with both hands ; face and head very hot ;
eyes much inflamed ; vertigo preventing rising ; urine high-colored, with a reddish sediment, and mucus of dirty, reddish-yellow tint ; moaned much, and complained that brain was forcing itself out front ; that it was too large and had grown.
Violent headache ; face flushed and very hot, whole head extremely hot ; eyes much inflamed and with a wild expression ; trembling of knees and lower extremities ; slight quiver in wrists and hands, only now and then perceptible ; pulse only 86, but full and
tense.
Congestion to head, as if warm water were running upwards from nape of neck ; turns very red in face and then pale ; very little headache but a painless throbbing ; frequent attacks during day, < in morning when moving ; conjunctiva injected, cannot see well, like
a mist before eyes ; hot feet.
Some months after being violently jarred by being thrown from carriage, a sensitiveness of upper part of back and neck came on, painful to touch, or from lying upon it, with swelling, heat ; sharp, cutting pains into occiput, and from across shoulder-blades to anterior part of
chest ; when lying down she had frequent attacks of constriction around neck, as if it were gripped by a hand ; < from wine.
Congestive headache, pain beginning in forehead and sides of head, slowly passing to vertex and occiput, when it becomes a throbbing pain, < from motion and least noise, from lying with the head low and after sleeping ; > from application of cold water and from external
pressure ; vertex burning hot, likewise the upper part of back ; face bluish, with a heavy, stupid expression ; lips swollen, frequent deep inspirations ; pit of stomach sensitive to touch ; frequent and profuse flow of pale urine.
Headache ; every pulse is felt, as if head would burst ; stupefaction ; sunken eyes ; bluish pallor under eyes ; red eyes, with photophobia ; optical illusions ; lightning ; black spots before eyes ; blindness ; in ears, pain, fulness,
pulsation, ringing, deafness ; face pale in spite of high fever, or red and hot ; temporal arteries pulsate violently ; heart beats strong and laborious ; pulse mostly accelerated, often changing suddenly to slow, and back again ; nausea, vomiting with the
headache ; sudden spasms. θ Meningitis.
Hyperemia of brain caused by influence of excessive cold or heat.
Burning pain in cerebrum and violent chills, vertigo in morning ; < from light ; had been exposed to sun till sparks flashed before eyes, and a sense of heaviness and enlargement of head came over him.
Sunstroke : loss of consciousness, sensation and motion ; countenance expressionless ; pulse full, slow and intermittent ; respiration slow and labored ; pupils dilated, with eyes turned up ; jaws firmly clenched ; limbs relaxed and motionless ;
occasional muscular tremors.
Unconscious ; excessive trembling and jactitation of muscles, more or less through entire body ; jaws set ; eyes relaxed ; pupils dilated ; skin cold, clammy, and covered with profuse sweat ; pulseless at wrist and ankles ; only a faint fluttering at
breast ; breathing rapid and almost imperceptible ; did not respond to loud calls near ear, nor to gentle shaking ; tendency to vomiting, shortly followed by vomiting of bile and mucus, succeeded by involuntary stool, with escape of much flatus and urine ; could not
swallow. θ Sunstroke.
Sunstroke : vertigo, violent pain ; pale face, feeble pulse ; labored breathing, nausea ; comatose ; or, throbbing in head ; face yellowish-red, or livid ; eyes fixed ; pulse full, slow ; tongue coated, no appetite.
Severe headache, pulsation in temples, fulness and heavy aching on vertex ; she had her hair cut off to within two inches of scalp, because heaviness and heat of it almost distracted her ; pain < from least motion ; has not slept for three nights ; keeps eyes
closed because light is disagreeable, though not painful ; tongue coated heavily on back part ; moderate thirst, putrid taste ; perspiration alternately with chilliness ; which causes her to cover herself up very heavily, till perspiration breaks out again ;
oppressed breathing caused by sense of weight in chest, and occasional light cough ; pulse 106, small and empty ; hands hot ; aversion to food ; on attempting to rise, such weakness of limbs she could not stand. θ Affection
of brain.
Threatened meningeal inflammation. θ Yellow fever.

Outer head

Bad consequences of cutting hair.
Rigidity of occipito-frontalis.
Head felt too large ; larger than usual ; enormously large.
Constant inclination to throw head backward.

Sight and eyes

Flashes of lightning, sparks, mist or black spots before eyes.
Photophobia.
As if focus of right eye were suddenly displaced ; sees everything half light and half dark.
Letters appear smaller.
Objects dance with every pulsation.
Sensation of whirling, of confused vision, of objects dancing before eyes.
Black spots before eyes during headache, especially when turning quickly.
Dim sight with vertigo, or fainting.
Pupils contracted. θ Sunstroke.
Pupils dilated ; eyes upturned ; sunstroke ; eyes rolled outwards and up ; convulsions.
Eyes dull, staring, sunken.
Red injected eyes during headache ; reddened with wild expression.
Staring, wild look, protrusion of eyes.
Eyes very painful, bloodshot.
Face flushed, eyes inflamed.
Said her eyes were falling out.
Eyes feel as if some one were pulling them from within outward.
Drawing, pressing, aching, bursting pain in eyes ; soreness, quivering and twitching.
In eyeballs : stitches ; twitchings ; soreness ; pressure ; pain as if protruding.
Pressing downward towards eyes.
Heat in eyeballs, lids and around eyes.
Beating over orbits.
Throbbing contracting the eyelids.
Supra-orbital neuralgia ; pain usually commences at 6 A. M. and continues till 11 or 12.
Pain under left eye.

Hearing and ears

Ringing in ears ; audible pulse.
Noise in left ear, as if it came from heart, every evening while reading, sometimes prevents falling asleep, but gets better during sleep.
Deafness, ears as if stopped up ; deafness followed by blurred vision.
Heaviness, deafness, and sensation of being stopped up, in ears.
Hardness of hearing.
Paralysis of auditory nerve.
Stitches in ears ; ears feel as if closed.
Throbbing piercing from within outward, in right ear.
Throbbing : above ears ; from occiput to ears.
Sensation of fulness in and around ears.
Ears red.

Smell and nose

Pains in root of nose, headache extends to nose.
Sudden sneezing ; fluent coryza.

Upper face

Face flushed and very hot, especially about eyes and forehead, with headache.
Flushes of heat to face and head.
Heat in face with pulsations in head and palpitation.
Redness of face, especially upper part, with headache.
Unconscious with deep red or purple face.
Convulsions after delivery, with red face.
Face alternately flushed and pale.
Paleness of face with heat and congestion of blood to head and chest.
Paleness of face with congestion to head, in pregnant women.
Heat of face, with pallor and sleepiness.
Pale face : in sunstroke ; after sweating.
Yellowish-redness of face during sunstroke.
Faceache : muscles twitch, even unconsciousness ; breathing stertorous ; < in heat of bed.
Sudden neuralgic pains from decayed tooth, concentrating in temple ; head heavy, but cannot lay it on pillow.
Periodical attacks of facial neuralgia.
Tic douloureux, left side of face.
Sweat on face.
Cold sweat on face during congestion to head.
Itching, especially in middle of face.

Lower face

Convulsions with frothing at mouth.
Burning in various small places on lips.
Lower lip feels swollen.
Numbness in lower lip ; sensation as if swollen.
Strange sensation in chin ; it feels as if it were being elongated to knees ; was obliged to put his hand to his chin repeatedly, to convince himself that it was not the case ; prover had considerably jarred and injured his chin by a fall twenty years before.
Special action on masseter muscles, region of mastoid process, and head.
Gnawing sensation in masseter muscles.
Pain and stiffness of articulation of jaw.
Jaws firmly clenched. θ Sunstroke.

Teeth and gums

Throbbing pain in all the teeth.
Pulsating toothache with headache.
Pulsating, throbbing pains ; teeth feel elongated.
Toothache from taking cold, after having been over-heated ; beating of pulse felt in all the teeth, or a drawing ; pain extending to whole right side of face, having waves of spontaneous exacerbation, without being influenced by anything in particular.
Toothache ; after hitting, in chewing a hard substance, a bad tooth, a pain extends from that tooth into whole row of teeth, into whole right lower jaw and cheek, and here especially in nervus infra orbitalis, also into right ear, temple and parietal bone ; pain is continual,
with sudden spasmodic exacerbations ; it has no rhythm, nor is it influenced by cold or warm air, rest or motion ; gums swollen and sensitive to touch.
Pain in decayed teeth, left side, after falling asleep ; pain felt only at night, awakens her ; malar. bone sore to touch ; pain under left eye and on side of neck.
Rooting pain in one upper and one lower molar tooth, right side ; both were carious ; they feel longer, the gums are swollen ; pain extends into right temple, ear and parietal bone ; nothing seems to influence the pain. θ Toothache.
Sudden pain from decayed inferior molar, concentrates in temple.
Severe pain from decayed tooth, lasting several hours.
Stabbing pain in gums, right side passing to left, without ceasing in right ; < from hot, > from cold applications.
Teeth decay : after mercury ; catamenia scanty ; following exposure to sun.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste : bitter, with nausea ; aromatic ; sweet ; warm ; leaves fatty taste.
Tongue milk-white, without coating ; violent headache ; wants head pressed or bound ; cannot eat ; very weak and miserable.
Tongue coated heavily on back part ; putrid taste. θ Brain affection.
Tongue feels swelled and raw, with spasmodic twitchings.
Tongue numb, as if burnt ; prickling, stinging.
Difficulty in conversing, from diminished power of tongue and confusion of ideas.

Inner mouth

Saliva increased, slimy.
Froth about mouth ; convulsions.
Sensation of soreness and swelling on roof of mouth, with pulsation.

Palate and throat

Soft palate : dry ; feels as if drawn up.
Itching of soft palate and throat.
Swollen sensation in fauces.
Throat feels as if swelling ; full sensation in both sides of neck.
Constriction at top of larynx ; in throat, as if throttled.
Tickling, heat and soreness in throat.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Coated tongue, no appetite. θ Sunstroke.
Wants cold water ; also from dry, parched feeling.
Increased desire to smoke.

Eating and drinking

Wine aggravates all symptoms.
Alcoholic stimulants cause delirium, congestion, stupor, etc.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Nausea ; with congestion ; and retching, during sunstroke ; with faint feeling ; causing sweat, which relieves.
Nausea with, and caused by, headache, with colic ; congestion of blood to head and chest, and pale face.
Faint, warm, sickening sensation in chest and stomach, resembling threatening of sea-sickness ; also slight giddiness, especially on moving about.
Vomiting : spasmodic, in hydrocephalus ; in sunstroke.
Sea-sickness.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Gnawing in epigastrium.
Attack begins suddenly with violent pain in epigastrium.
Sensation of emptiness in pit of stomach.
Faint feeling at pit of stomach ; also with throbbing there.
Sensitiveness of pit of stomach, especially on stooping.
Pain in pit of stomach, as if sore, when touched ; < when stooping.
Respiration labored ; pit of stomach the seat of distress. θ Sunstroke.
Dull, heavy pain in stomach.
Stomach and head feel as if he had been out in hot sun.

Hypochondria

Pain in left hypochondrium, half-way between pit of stomach and side.

Abdomen and loins

Rumbling in bowels, belching, passing offensive flatus.
Cutting, mostly below navel (wakens one in morning).
Venous congestion to abdomen.

Stools and rectum

Stools : loose, scanty, with much rumbling ; copious, loose, dark, lumpy, with colic, heat in anus, nausea and sudden urging.
Diarrheic stools with rumbling and discharges of flatus, beginning in morning and lasting all day.
Diarrhœa, with sudden cessation of menses.
Frequent passage of flatus during stools, with a loud, sharp noise.
Inclined to be costive.
After 10 in evening, an unaccustomed time, a hard and unusual stool, pinching in abdomen before and after it, till going to sleep.

Urinary organs

Urine : abundant, highly albuminous ; must rise often at night to pass it ; high-colored, burning while passing ; with red sediment and muddy, reddish-yellow slime.

Female sexual organs

During menstruation : congestion of blood to head and chest ; headache ; fainting.
Menstrual period three days every six weeks, accompanied by lumbar pain ; pupils dilated ; < at night ; some relief from hot fomentations.
Catamenia had not appeared for six weeks ; throbbing pains through temples and pressure and heaviness on head ; feels sick ; constipation ; restless at night.
Intense congestion of brain induced in plethoric constitutions by sudden suppression of menses, or appearing in place of the menses.
Disturbances in intercranial circulation at time of menopause.
Instead of menses : headache ; congestion to head ; pale face : < in warm room, > when walking in cold air ; diarrhœa ; fainting.
Before, during, or at end of menstruation, or when it does not appear at all, fulness in head, with or without redness of face and eyes, especially with throbbing, sometimes with excessive tearing, throbbing pains.
Headaches occurring after profuse uterine hemorrhage.
Flushings to head during climacteric period.
During climacteric : flushes of heat daily in frequent attacks, with pressure in head, nausea, loss of senses ; cannot go alone in street ; vertigo ; swelling and numbness in feet.
Since first menstruation, congestion to head, with loss of consciousness ; face became deep red or purple color ; hands clenched, thumbs thrown into the palms ; froth before mouth ; attacks became more frequent and severe, so that instead of appearing only at times of
menstruation, they had for several years occurred three or four times in twenty-four hours ; menstruation scanty, constant fear of attack ; < from mental or physical effort ; after attack, palpitation violent, subsiding after an hour ; constant sensation of
tremulousness in cardiac region ; pulse quick, small, irregular ; heart's impulse increased, action rapid, irregular and tumultuous, blending of first and second sounds, so that they were indistinguishable ; numbness in left extremities.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

During pregnancy : headache ; congestion of blood to head and chest.
Rush of blood to head in pregnant women, especially with paleness of face, loss of consciousness, falling down insensible, sometimes with cold sweat, especially in face.
Face bright red, unconsciousness, extraordinary full, quick pulse ; strikes about her with hands and feet, can scarcely be kept in bed, throws herself wildly about, foams at mouth, eyeballs roll convulsively about, or stare straight in front, or are
drawn upwards, convulsions last four or five minutes, during intervals turns about restlessly in bed ; violent throbbing of heart and carotids. θ Convulsions after labor.
Eclampsia : unconscious ; face bright red ; puffed ; pulse full, hard ; urine copious and albuminous.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Acute irritation of cerebral nerves, vertigo ; slight bronchial irritation with frequent expectoration of thick mucus. θ Laryngo-tracheitis.

Respiration

Breathing : heavy, labored, stertorous ; oppressed from feeling of weight ; accelerated ; must often breathe deeply ; sighing.
Sensation of constriction and oppression of chest, with perceptible palpitation, compelling to draw deep breath.
Oppressed breathing, caused by sense of weight in chest ; occasional light cough. θ Affection of brain.

Inner chest and lungs

Constriction of chest ; chest feels as if laced.
Pain in chest like tension, and frequent inclination to deep respiration.
Oppression of chest alternating with headache.
Congestion alternating between chest and head.
Sinking feeling in head and chest, as from working in hot room.
Sensation of flying heat, rising from chest to face and head.
Sharp, cutting pains across shoulder-blades to anterior part of chest.
Numb sensation moving upwards in chest and down left arm.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Sharp pains in the heart.
Fulness in the heart.
Violent action of heart, distinct pulsation over whole body.
Violent palpitation of heart, with throbbing carotids, pulsating headache in forehead and between temples.
Violent palpitation of heart ; frequency of pulse ; stitches in left hypochondrium ; feeling as if she would die ; numbness in whole left arm.
Violent palpitation ; constant tremulous sensation in cardiac region ; heart's impulse increased ; pulse quick, small.
Palpitation of heart with heat in face, accelerated pulse and pulsation of carotid arteries.
After several minutes, violent and rapid palpitation, felt also in head like a hammer, especially when stooping, so that stooping seemed impossible to him ; several times when stooping, stitching pain in region of heart, so violent that he feared to bend forward again.
Heart's action easily excited ; violent palpitation, throbbing carotids, pulsating headache ; < stooping.
Laborious action of heart ; oppression ; frequent pulse.
Pressure in heart, as if it was being contracted.
Sensation of fulness about heart, almost increased to pain ; it seems as if it would rise to throat ; pulse decreased.
In heart sensation of fulness, heaviness and heat, with labored beating of heart.
Blood seems to rush to heart and mount rapidly into head.
Alternate congestion to heart and to head.
Sharp pains in heart.
Severe stitches from heart extending into back, between shoulders.
Anxiety in precordia ; weakness.
Purring noise in region of heart when lying ; pulse intermittent ; must have head high ; < when lying on left side ; > on right.
Blending of first and second sounds so that they were indistinguishable.
Accelerated pulse ; beats increased.
Pulse accelerated while the headache lasts.
Pulse full, slow and intermittent. θ Sunstroke.
Pulse accelerated to 100 by walking ; soon fell to 38.
Pulse mostly accelerated, often changing suddenly to slow and back again.
Pulse : irregular, intermitting ; quick, small, irregular, with violent action of heart ; small and rapid ; weak and slow ; low and feeble, in sunstroke.
Arteries in head become distinct.
Throbbing of carotid arteries, both seen and felt.
Temporal and carotid arteries beating violently.
Plethoric female had, since she began to menstruate, attacks of blood to head alternately with rush of blood to heart, with pale or red face, five or six times in day ; at same time she lost her consciousness and fell down ; alternate palpitation and cerebral congestion, with
loss of consciousness, convulsions and foam before mouth.
As an intercurrent remedy in angina pectoris, to prevent the organism from getting accustomed to the influence of Aur. mur.

Outer chest

Sweat on the chest.

Neck and back

The neck feels weak and tired, cannot support the head.
When lying down, sensation as if neck were grasped.
Constriction around lower part of neck.
Sensation of stiffness or tension about head and neck as if they had been laced in ; clothing seems too tight, was obliged to ease his coat and necktie.
On neck sensation of fulness, tension, pulsation.
Nape of neck stiff, with headache.
When throwing back his head, he felt a pain like cramp in back of his neck, to the felt, in region of sixth and seventh cervical vertebræ.
Sensitiveness and pain in occiput, upper back and upper chest, coming on a few months after violent jarring from being thrown from a carriage.
Severe neuralgic pain in lower part of cervical region of spine and right arm.
Sharp cutting across scapulæ.
Hot sensation down back ; burning between scapulæ.
Pain down entire spine, after constriction in chest ; shiverings downward.
Old contusions and jars.

Upper limbs

Arms : nervous, uneasy ; heavy, as if circulation was checked ; numbness, heaviness following throbbing ; restlessness, weakness, want of circulation.
Numbness and sensation of weariness of left arm, so that it requires great effort to raise the arm ; stiffness of middle joints of fingers.
Pain from shoulder to back of right hand.
Weakness of wrists after headache.
Quivering in hands and wrists during headache.
Hands clenched, thumbs thrown into palms. θ Convulsions.
Beating of pulse is perceptible in all fingers.
Trembling of fingers.
Rheumatic pains in fingers of left hand.

Lower limbs

On attempting to rise, such weakness of limbs could not stand. θ Affection of brain.
Restlessness in limbs causes him to rise.
Jerking of limbs with loss of consciousness.
Limbs relaxed and motionless. θ Sunstroke.
Thighs weak during headache.
Weakness and numbness of thigh.
Unsteady gait.
Weakness of legs, knees and ankles give way.
The knees give (when getting up from bed) on account of headache ; weakness of knee-joints afterwards for an hour.
Knocking of knees and thighs together during headache.
Acute pain in left knee on moving, seemed to be deep in joint, without much heat or swelling ; sudden twinges or pricks, while at rest, is obliged to rise and straighten limb. θ Acute
rheumatism.
Cold feet, with nausea, palpitation.

Limbs in general

Great weakness in middle portion of thighs and arms.
Sensation of weakness and trembling in limbs.
Extremities feel bloated.
Sharp pricking pain in arms and legs.
Numbness in left extremities.

Rest. position. motion

While at rest pain in knee <, must rise and straighten limb.
When lying down sensation as if neck were grasped.
Lying still : > headache.
Lying : on back or side causes "pillow to beat ;" purring noise in region of heart.
Lying on left side : purring in region of heart.
After lying down : headache <.
Must have his head elevated.
Cannot lay head on pillow, head is so heavy.
Sitting still : > headache.
Sitting up : vertigo <.
Bending head backwards : < headache.
Bends head forward : from heaviness.
Stooping : vertigo ; < headache ; pit of stomach sensitive ; stitching pain in region of heart ; palpitation <.
Motion : of head, giddiness ; < headache.
Using eyes : < headache.
Restlessness in limbs causes him to rise.
Shaking head : < pains in forehead ; < sore and bruised feeling in brain.
Turning quickly during headache : black spots before eyes.
Ascending steps : headache <.
Walking : < headache ; every step felt in neck ; in cold air > headache ; accelerates pulse to 100.
Knocks head against wall with headache.
Attempts to spring from window.
Runs about room : with headache.
Romping : causes headache.

Nerves

Feeling as after inhaling ether.
Restlessness in limbs, must rise and walk.
Feeling as after fright, not mental, but bodily.
Sensation as of throbbing throughout body, with heat and sweat.
Painless pulsation all over body ; circulation easily quickened.
Feeling of fulness throughout body.
Pulsations, tingling, thrills, and a peculiar sensation of warmth through body, extending from above downward.
Weakness as from loss of sleep.
Feeling of prostration. θ Sunstroke.
Unconscious falling down, or fainting with consciousness.
Jerkings through body.
Convulsions : epileptiform, cerebral congestion, scanty or suppressed menses ; hands clenched, thumbs in palms, face red, eyes rolled upward, then sopor ; left-sided, with fingers spread ; face alternately red and pale ; each attack occurs regularly every three
hours, begins suddenly with violent pain in epigastrium, upward in chest and down left arm, with uterine derangement. θ Convulsions.
Strong, healthy-looking child subject to convulsions at intervals of a few months ; attacks preceded by drowsiness, soon after which child fell into a convulsive state, with clenching and jerking upward of fists and legs ; face red ; eyes rolled outward and upward ;
then followed a soporific condition, lasting several hours, followed by another convulsion.
Great congestion of head and heart ; during spasms he spreads his fingers and toes asunder.
Convulsions, especially left fingers spread apart.
Convulsions after mental or physical effort.
Epileptic attacks with aura epileptica.
Epileptiform attack in young lady æt. 20 ; congestion to head, loss of consciousness, jerking of limbs ; no foam at mouth ; dysmenorrhœa with scanty menstruation.
Epileptic convulsions with congestion to head and heart.
Unable to speak, although usually a very noisy child ; mouth drawn to left side ; cannot protrude tongue in a straight line.
Loss of power to articulate, also has no memory for words. θ Aphasia.
Effects of alcoholic stimulants, intoxication, delirium tremens, congestions, sleepiness and subsequent depression.
Spasmodic and neuralgic affections.

Sleep

Drowsy, yawning ; inclination to deep inspiration ; face hot and pale.
Yawning with headache, congestion of blood to head.
Sleepiness early in evening.
Restless sleep ; awakes with fear of apoplexy.
Sleepless.
Dreams : confused ; of homesickness, with tears ; of comical heads.
Difficult to awaken.

Time

Worse morning and forenoon : headache, languor, colic.
Worse afternoon and evening : headache ; diarrhœa.
Morning : on rising, vertigo ; throbbing in head < ; congestion to head ; vertigo ; cutting pains below navel wakes one : diarrheic stools.
During day : cataleptic state of occipito-frontalis muscle.
From 6 A. M. until 11 or 12 : supra-orbital neuralgia.
After 10 in evening : a hard, unusual stool.
Night : pain in decayed teeth ; must rise to pass urine, lumbar pains < ; restless.

Temperature and weather

Children get sick in the night after sitting opposite an open coal fire, or falling asleep there.
Bad effects from having the hair cut.
Bad effects from being exposed inordinately to the sun's rays.
Open air : vertigo < ; headache with unconsciousness >.
Damp, rainy days : headache.
Wet, dull weather : attacks of headache.
Gas-light : causes headache.
Warm weather : brings back headache.
Warm room : headache <.
Heat of bed : faceache <.
Taking cold from overheating : causes headache.
Overheating : causes headache.
Hot applications : < pain in gums.
Heat : head will not bear it.
Cannot walk in sun nor bear heat from stove.
Rays of sun cannot be borne on head.
Bad results from sunstroke.
Cold applications : > pains in gums.
Cold air : > headache.
Cold water : < headache ; causes spasms ; > congestive headache.
Excessive cold and heat : cause hyperemia of brain.

Fever

Chill : after getting heated ; alternates with sweat ; with vomiting ; head as if screwed up ; in intermittent fever.
Chill after getting heated ; drawing pain and heat in head, vertigo, buzzing in ears, flushed face.
Perspiration alternately with chilliness, which causes her to cover herself up very heavily, till perspiration breaks out again. θ Affection of brain.
Flushes of heat ; waves of heat upward.
Heat, especially in face, ascending from pit of stomach to head.
As if warm water were running upward from nape of neck.
Sensation of warmth throughout body.
Fever heat, and small, quick pulse. θ Sunstroke.
Feeling as if perspiration would break out all over.
Sweat especially on forehead.
Cold sweat, especially on face, during congestion to head.
Perspiration principally on face, after sleeping.
Very profuse perspiration, especially on face and chest.
Perspiration in the hands.
Perspiration relieves nausea.
Sweat alternates with chill.
Typhoid fever ; very violent headache ; wants head squeezed ; tongue is not furred, but as white as milk ; can't eat, feels weak and miserable.

Attacks, periodicity

Frequent : congestion to head ; constriction around neck after a jar ; flow of pale urine ; passages of flatus during stools ; attacks of flushes of heat.
Gradually : headache growing more severe after working in sun.
Periodical attacks : of facial neuralgia.
Waves of spontaneous exacerbation : toothache.
Four or five minutes : convulsions.
From five to ten minutes : intense pain in head.
For an hour : arteries in head became distinct.
Lasting several hours : pain from decayed tooth.
Five or six times a day : congestion to head accompanied by unconsciousness and convulsions.
Every 3 hours : convulsions.
Lasting 24 hours : congestive headache.
Daily for several months : sharp pain in left temple.
All day : attacks of headache ; congestion to head ; diarrheic stools.
Every evening : while reading noise in left ear.
Every 12 or 15 days : attacks of headache.
For 3 nights : has not slept from headache.
Three days every six weeks : menstrual period.
All summer : headache < every day with the sun.
Every day during climacteric period : flushes of heat.

Locality and direction

Right : stitches in temple and forehead ; focus of eyes displaced ; piercing, throbbing in ear ; toothache, lower jaw and cheek ; neuralgic pain in arm ; pain from shoulder to back of hand.
Left : headache with vomiting ; sharp pain in temples ; pain under eye ; noise in ear ; tic douloureux of side of face ; pain in decayed teeth ; pain under eye and on side of neck ; pain in hypogastrium ; numbness in extremities ;
numbness down arm ; stitches in hypochondrium ; weariness and numbness of arm ; rheumatic pains through fingers ; pain in knee ; convulsions on side ; fingers spread apart in convulsions ; mouth drawn to side in convulsions.
From right to left : stabbing pains in gums.
From within outward : piercing pain in forehead ; pain in temples ; eyes feel as if pulled ; throbbing piercing in right ear.
From back to front : beating in head.
From above downward : sensation of warmth through body.
From left breast into head : throbbing moving in waves.
Rising and falling : like waves, headache ; fulness in brain.
Alternating to head and heart : congestion.

Sensations

Chin feels as if too long ; chest feels as if screwed together ; as if brain was expanding, were moving in waves ; as if all the blood had mounted to head ; as if he were hanging with head downwards ; as if there was a great rush of blood to
head ; head feels large ; as if head were pressed together ; as if cold sweat were on forehead ; arteries felt like whip-cords ; as if whole head were crowded with blood ; as if something were pumped into vertex ; brain feels as if too heavy and too large
for skull ; as if brain were attempting to burst skull ; as if something were moving in waves to head ; as if inside of head were sore ; as if head would drop to pieces ; as if focus of right eye were suddenly displaced ; as if he must die ; red capillaries
in eye as if injected ; as if everything were crowded out at forehead ; pressure in occiput, seems as if he would lose his reason ; as if head would burst ; as if warm water were running upwards from nape of neck ; as if neck were gripped by a hand ; as if some
one were pulling eyes from within outward ; noise in left ear as if it came from the heart ; ears as if stopped up ; lower lip as if swollen ; teeth feel as if elongated ; teeth feel as if loose ; tongue feels swollen ; tongue as if burnt ; palate
feels as if drawn up ; fauces as if swollen ; throat feels as if swelling ; in throat as if throttled ; pit of stomach as if sore ; stomach and head feel as if he had been put out in hot sun ; chest feels as if laced ; palpitation in head like a
hammer ; as if heart was being contracted ; as if heart would rise to throat ; as if neck were grasped ; as if head and neck were laced in ; arms as if circulation was checked ; as after inhaling ether ; as after fright ; weakness as from loss of
sleep ; as if screwed up during chill ; as if warm water were running ; as if perspiration would break out.
Pain : beginning at root of nose ; in vertex and sides of head ; in forehead ; starts from decayed inferior molar tooth, concentrates in temples ; in vertex and crown ; deep in brain ; in occiput ; the whole length of spine ; in ears ; in
eyes ; under left eye ; in jaw ; from teeth to right side of face ; in decayed tooth ; under left eye ; on side of neck ; in pit of stomach ; in left hypochondrium ; in lumbar region ; in chest ; in occiput ; upper back ; upper
chest ; down spine from shoulder to back of right hand.
Intense pain : in cervical and occipital regions ; in eyes.
Frightful headache.
Raving headache.
Raging pain : in whole head ; in saggital suture.
Violent pain : in epigastrium ; in chest ; in left arm before convulsion.
Violent shoots : into head.
Violent : headache ; pain in epigastrium.
Severe pain : in forehead ; in tooth.
Tearing pain : through head.
Sharp cutting : across scapulæ.
Piercing pain : in forehead ; in left temple ; in right ear.
Racking : in head.
Cutting pains : into occiput ; across shoulder-blades to anterior part of chest ; below navel.
Acute pain : in left knee-joint.
Stabbing pain : in gums.
Sharp pain : in left temple ; into occiput ; across shoulder-blades to anterior part of chest ; in the heart.
Stitching pain in region of heart.
Stitches : in temples ; right side of forehead ; in eyeballs ; in ears ; in left hypochondrium ; from heart to back.
Bursting : in head ; above ears ; in temples ; in eyes.
Cracking sensation in brain.
Burning pain : in middle of head, in cerebrum.
Rooting pain : in one upper and one lower molar tooth.
Pinching : in abdomen.
Pressing pain : in temples ; in eyes.
Shoots : in head.
Neuralgia : in head ; in eyes ; in face ; in lower cervical region ; in spine ; in right arm.
Crampy pain : in back of neck.
Drawing pain : in eyes ; in teeth ; in head.
Tensive pain : over eyes and nose ; behind ears.
Shocks : in brain synchronous with pulsation of arteries.
Violent beating : in head.
Beating : in head ; in temporal and carotid arteries ; across orbits.
Throbbing : in head ; in temples ; in front of head ; over eyes ; in temporal arteries ; under frontal bone ; in left breast, then in head ; back of neck ; contracting eyelids ; in ears ; in all the teeth ; heart and
carotids ; in arms ; throughout body.
Pulsating : in head ; in carotids ; from forehead to vertex ; in teeth ; over whole body.
Painless pulsation : all over body.
Gnawing sensation : in masseter muscles ; in epigastrium.
Aching : in vertex ; in eyes ; in teeth ; in ear ; in temple ; in parietal bone.
Twinges : in left knee.
Tingling : throughout body.
Stinging : of tongue.
Prickling : of tongue.
Pricking : in left knee ; in arms ; in legs.
Violent palpitation of heart.
Thrills : throughout body.
Jerkings : through body.
Bruised feeling : in brain.
Rheumatic pains : in fingers of left hand.
Anxiety : in precordia.
Burning : on lips ; between scapulæ.
Sore feeling : in brain ; in eyeballs ; in roof of mouth ; in throat.
Choking sensation : about throat.
Dull : headache ; in forehead ; pain in stomach.
Undulating sensation : in head.
Pressure : in temples ; extends to back of neck ; in eyeballs ; in heart.
Heaviness : of head ; in ears ; in heart ; in arms.
Oppression : of chest.
Tickling : in throat.
Fluttering : in head.
Flickering : before eyes.
Ringing : in ears.
Buzzing : in ears.
Confusion : of all senses.
Balancing sensation : in head.
Waves of heat : going upward.
Peculiar warmth : through body.
Heat : in head ; in eyeballs ; in lids ; around eyes ; in throat ; in anus ; in heart ; in face ; from pit of stomach upward.
Hot sensation : down back.
Warmth : throughout body.
Constriction : in vessels of head ; around neck.
Congestion : in head ; to occiput.
Tension : of head and neck.
Fulness : in head ; in vertex ; in ears ; around ears ; in the heart ; in neck ; throughout body.
Swollen : throat feels.
Bloated feeling : in extremities.
Expansive pressure : in head.
Uneasy feeling : in arms.
Sensitiveness of upper part of back and neck.
Restlessness : in arms ; in limbs.
Twitching : of eyes ; in eyeballs.
Quivering : of eyes ; in hands ; in wrists.
Trembling : of fingers ; in limbs.
Crushing weight : across forehead.
Weight : at vertex.
Stiffness : of articulation of jaw ; of neck and head ; of middle joints of fingers.
Numbness : in lower lip ; of tongue ; in extremities ; in chest ; in left arm ; in arms ; of thigh ; in left extremities.
Rigidity : of occipito-frontalis.
Faint feeling : in stomach ; in chest.
Sinking feeling : in head and chest.
Tired feeling : in neck.
Emptiness : at pit of stomach.
Weariness : of left arm.
Weakness : in neck ; in arms ; of wrists ; of thighs ; of legs ; of knee-joints ; in middle portions of thighs and arms ; in limbs.
Itching : in middle of face ; of soft palate and throat.
Shivering : down spine.

Tissues

Congestions ; blood tends upward ; vessels pulsate ; veins (jugular, temporal) enlarged.
Seeming plethora, rapid deviations in distribution of blood ; useful as a substitute for bleeding.
Bad effects from mental excitement, fright, fear, mechanical contusions and their later consequences ; from having hair cut and exposure to rays of sun.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Sea-sickness, or bad effects of too much riding or driving.
Pressure : > headache ; cannot bear weight of hair ; clothing seems too tight.
Touch : pit of stomach sensitive ; malar bone sore.
Reading : causes headache.
Old contusions and jars.
From hurting a bad tooth in chewing, toothache.
After jarring chin by a fall twenty years before, chin feels elongated.
Shaking or jarring : causes headache.
After being thrown from carriage : sensitiveness of cervical region ; cutting pains into occiput through chest ; constrictions around neck.
After violent fall on head : vertigo.

Stage of life, constitution

Florid, plethoric, sensitive women.
Nervous, sanguine, readily affected persons.
Girl, æt. 2, had convulsions, which yielded to Bellad. ; paralytic symptoms.
SA. C., girl, æt. 8, bilious nervous temperament, high-tempered ; occasional attacks of epistaxis ; headache.
LS., boy, æt. 12, bilious nervous temperament, slightly lymphatic ; headache.
Woman, æt. 17, healthy, but weak and thin ; convulsions after labor.
Girl, æt. 19 ; palpitation of heart.
Girl, æt. 20, decayed teeth ; toothache.
Man, æt. 24, epileptic eight years ; mania.
Lady, æt. 25 ; congestion to head and convulsions during menstrual period.
Girl, æt. 26 ; suppression of menses.
Miss, æt. 28, subject to nervous headaches ; headache from fright.
Lady, æt. 28, extremely nervous temperament ; affection of brain.
Woman, æt. 28, weak from undue lactation and neglect of air and exercise ; supra-orbital neuralgia.
Patient, æt. 30, has suffered since childhood ; violent headaches.
Man, æt. 30, after having retired in ordinary health ; aphasia.
BMS, æt. 32, large, full-formed man, bilious sanguine temperament ; caught a violent cold by overheating and standing in a draft of air with his coat off ; had drank large quantities of cold water ; had eaten nothing in twenty-four hours ; violent headache.
Mrs. M. J. C., æt. 35, bilious sanguine temperament ; has had four children and four miscarriages ; congestion to head.
Woman, æt. 35 ; congestive headaches.
Woman, æt. 36, dyspeptic ; hemicrania.
Woman, colored cook, æt. 40, widow, one child, æt. 15 ; violent headache and congestion to brain.
Clergyman, æt. 44, large and fleshy, and in enjoyment of perfect health ; loss of location.
Laborer in iron foundry ; congestion to head.

Relations

Antidoted by : Acon ., Camphor., Coffea, Nux vom .
Compare : Amyl nitr ., Bellad., Ferrum, Gelsem., Natr. carb., Opium, Potas. nitr., Sod. nitr., Stramon .

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

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

Head

The most common feature in this remedy is the surging of blood to the head and to the heart. A patient often describes the state as a feeling as if all the blood in the body must be rushing around the heart, with a sense of heat or a boiling sensation in the region of the heart, or in the left side of the chest.

Again he complains of a surging in the head, a warm glowing sensation in the head or a feeling of intense glowing from the stomach or from the chest up into the head, attended at times with loss of consciousness.

There are also wave-like sensations in the head, as if the skull were being lifted up and lowered, or as if it were being expanded and contracted. Along with this there is most intense pain, sometimes as if the head would burst, sometimes great soreness in the head, or a sense of soreness felt in the skull. Another accompaniment of the surging is great throbbing, synchronous with the heat of the heart, and when the skull has this soreness then the throbbing is like the beating of hammers, and every pulsation is painful, so that there are painful pulsations and sometimes painless pulsations.

The pulsations are tremendous and when they are greatest in the head they are felt also in the extremities. The fingers and toes pulsate, there is pulsation throughout the back, and it seems that the whole body throbs. If this continues a while the soreness in the skull is likely to come on and with it the painful throbbing, every throb is a pain. In this state, with every jar in stepping, and every motion, it seems as if the head would be crushed.

Throbbing

The throbbing becomes more painful from motion. The vomiting which attends this condition relieves. The head is relieved in the open air, it is worse in the warmth, and is often relieved from the application of cold. It is made worse by lying down, or lying, with the head low. In the extremities we have great coldness. The extremities cold, pale and perspiring, the head hot and the face flushed and purple or bright red. The pupils are dilated and the eyes red. Now, if this progresses only a little while, the tongue becomes dry, red and then brown. There is no great thirst, but the mouth is very dry. The eyelids become dry and stick to the eyeballs. At times the skin becomes dry and hot, and the face is red and glistens. All degrees of confusion of mind, even loss of consciousness, will be present.

Headaches

Have I not described to a great extent that which is seen in a typical sunstroke? It is noticeable also that Glonoine symptoms are worse in the heat of summer and relieved in winter. The dull headaches and the continuous headaches are aggravated from warm weather and ameliorated from cold.

They are worse in the sun and better in the shade. All sorts of contrivances will be resorted to by Glonoine patients to keep the sun's beat from the head. When he has had these troubles for years, and it has become a chronic state, he will never go out in the warmth of the sun without an umbrella.

Glonoine corresponds to congestive states in the head that come on suddenly, especially from heat, but also from gaslight, or from any bright light.

The headaches that book-keepers are subject to, especially in those that have at their desk, or over the head, a hot gaslight. The bright light accompanied by the heat so close to the head will make this individual subject to headaches. These headaches are relieved by going into the cold air. The head aches all day when he is at his books, and when he goes home at night and lies down the headache comes on again, and he bas to be bolstered up in bed.

He wants the head high, and cold applications to the head; the headache is relieved from a long sleep, not generally relieved from siesta. From lying down and taking a nap the headache is sometimes aggravated, but from a good long sleep, a night's sleep, he is refreshed.

His feet and hands become warm, the feverish state, and the throbbing all over the body subsides and he wakes up in the morning comfortable; but if he goes out in the sun, or goes to the gaslight, he comes home with the headache again. Since electric lights have been brought into use there is not so much heat in the light, but gas throws out an immense amount of heat in its light,

The child comes down with cerebro-spinal meningitis, the neck is drawn back, the face is intensely hot, red and shiny, the eyes congested or glassy, the head and upper part of the body are very warm, the feet and hands and lower portions of the body and the extremities are cold and covered with cold sweat.

It is a most violent congestion to the brain and spinal cord. Convulsions come on, convulsions throughout all the limbs, the neck and whole body drawn back, opisthotonos. Cold feels good to the head; heat feels good to the extremities. The warm room increases the convulsions. When the lower limbs are covered with clothing in a cool room and the windows open the convulsions are relieved and the patient breaths more easily. With this head congestion there is difficulty in breathing and audible palpitation.

The head is made worse from shaking or jar, from stooping, from bending head backwards, after lying down, when ascending steps. It is aggravated in damp weather, and in the sun, while working under the gaslight, after overheating with copious sweat, and from the touch of the hat.

The weight of the hat is a very common aggravation in headaches in school children. The little ones work all day in a hot stuffy room and feel better in the open air, but the weight of the hat seems an encumberance as in Nitric acid and Calc. phos.

The Glonoine patient is also worse from wine and from stimulants, and from mental application. When the headache is on he cannot think, and he cannot write. An additional hindrance to writing is that he trembles so that he cannot write. Trembling and throbbing of the fingers so that he is unable to do his work or perform any delicate work with the fingers or hands.

We have puerperal convulsions with such an appearance as I have described. We may have the same violence in congestive chills, or in any type of congestion of the brain.

Brain

There is a milder form of trouble that calls for its use, a condition corresponding to the chronic types of disease. This milder form exists where the patient has simply what might be called a hyperemia of the brain, a rush of blood to the head when able to be about. It comes in spells, comes in moments when be least expects it; while walking on the street he feels a surging to the brain like a flush of heat and a flush on the face, his hands tremble, and the hands and feet become cold, he breaks out in a sweat; he looks around him and does not know which way to go home, he does not know where his dwelling is.

He looks in the faces of friends and they seem strange, he loses his way when be is near home. It is a confusion which soon passes away, and he feels better again. But these spells come closer together, and constitute the earlier stages of softening of the brain. This surging of blood to the brain is attended with dizziness; he rolls and staggers, and must take hold of things, and especially does he suffer in this way from a warm day, or from the heat and light of the sun.

In threatened apoplexy, and when apoplexy has taken place, if the violent pressure keeps on, think of this remedy. The clot may not be at first in the place to take life, it may be outside of the life line, but if the congestion continues that blood clot will increase.

Such medicines as Opium and Glonoine relieve the blood pressure when the symptoms agree. They equalize the circulation, and the patient may not die. A paralytic condition in one arm or leg may go on for a while, and at the end of many weeks or months the motion may be regained, and the patient recover; whereas if the suitable remedy had not been administered to reduce that blood pressure the continued congestion would certainly have ended in death in a few days.

The stertorous breathing, the coma, the history, and the general appearance of an apoplectic patient are found in this remedy, but the intense heat that comes on in many cases of apoplexy along with the shiny skin and coldness of the extremities are the guiding features.

Opium is the most frequently indicated medicine, but it must not be administered in large doses. The highest potencies are the best and one single dose is enough.

In a case noted it says, "frantic attempts to jump from the window."

The headache was so intense that the patient became violent and attempted to jump from the window. You may rest assured that with his headache there was all this determination of blood to the head. It is enough to make one frantic to feel this continued hammering upon every fraction of the skull. He cannot lie down, and he cannot walk, because every step increases the jar, so you see why it is that the word "frantic" is wed there. The patient becomes frantic with the pain.

Another expression used is "disinclination to step around."

The patient wants the room perfectly still. If sitting up in bed, you will often find a Glonoine patient with both hands pressing upon the head with all the power possible until the arms are perfectly exhausted. He wants the head pressed upon all sides. Wants it bandaged, or a tight cap fitted down upon it.

The headache is worse from bending backward and from stooping forward. There are times when the headache is so severe that lying back upon the pillow cannot be tolerated. There is a sense of great heaviness in the head. You will notice, in reading over these congestive headaches as reported, that each patient has a different way of describing his headache and yet all have the same story to tell, that of violent determination of blood to the head.

"Some months after being violently jarred by being thrown from a carriage, a sensitiveness of the upper part of the back and neck came on."

There are two strong characteristics of Glonoine in that cure, viz:

"< from wine and the < from lying down."

The other symptoms might have pointed to other remedies, but these two features are there. It is interesting when reading a case, if you have first a knowledge of the Materia Medica, to note what symptoms are verified when you do not know the Materia Medica then the case is confusing.

Now, as we glance over that description we see at once these two things verified and the rest is fairly consistent. Very commonly the pain begins in the occiput and goes to the forehead, but the whole head is in a state of throbbing.

But, we notice more particularly, the "aggravation from motion and the least noise."

This patient will sit in perfect quietude and silence for hours. You will be astonished to, know how long a Glonoine patient can sit without moving a muscle, because motion is so painful.

Also "aggravation from lying with the head low and after sleeping." it is important for you to know what that sleeping means. As I have said before, the patient very often is worse after a little sleep, but the common state is relief after a prolonged sleep. If he can sleep long enough it will subside, unless it be the congestive sleep, or coma, and then it is a different thing.

"Amelioration from cold and external pressure."

"Vertex burning hot, likewise upper part of back."

The whole crown of the head feels as if it were covered by a hot iron, as if an oven were close by. Hot, especially in the back of the neck and between the shoulders.

The burning heat seems to appear at the top of the head and extend down between the shoulders; a sensation of heat, as from a band.

"Face bluish, with a heavy, stupid expression."

The face is bright red, but if the condition becomes severe the face assumes a dusky appearance, and the longer this state lasts the more dusky it becomes; that is true with apoplexy and also with sunstroke. When the sunstroke first comes on the face is bright red, intensely hot and shiny, but as the heat increases the face grows dusky, even to purple. In all of these cerebral congestions there is a stupid, heavy expression, even going on to coma.

"Frequent deep inspirations."

With this congestion of the head there is commonly vomiting, palpitation of the heart, pain in the stomach, great difficulty in breathing and finally loss of consciousness. In another clinical case reported we read:

"Every pulsation is felt as if the head would burst."

Now, suppose the head bones were already intensely sensitive and sore and the head filled as full as possible with blood, and then you commenced hammering upon the blood column you can understand that the pain would be most intense and would soon end in stupefaction.

"Sunken eyes, bluish pallor under the eyes."

"Red eyes, with photophobia; optical illusions.

Black specks before the eyes; blindness."

"Face pale, in spite of high fever."

In all of these cerebral congestions of great violence the pulse fluctuates; it even becomes fine and wiry and hard; sometimes becomes irregular and also slow.

Another common accompaniment of these congestions is tumefaction about the neck. The neck feels full. The collar must be opened as it causes choking, as if he would suffocate. Even in the chronic state in the one who stands upon the street corner not knowing his way home because of the surging of blood in the head, that state is accompanied by choking and the collar causes uneasiness about the neck like Lach. He chokes and swells up under the ears. There is not only a sensation, but with the sensation there is actual swelling. Tumefaction about the neck and throat, under the chin, and the glands become swollen.

The next circumstance in the text that brings forth the general aspect of the remedy is in connection with the catamenia. The menstrual flow does not appear, it is delayed, with violent congestion to the head, violent headaches and these symptoms already described. These congestions may also come on during the menstrual period. Again, if a uterine hemorrhage stops suddenly, or a copious flow from any part stops suddenly, the patient comes down with great violence and the blood rushes to the head.

There are many conditions and complaints in life where we have surging of blood to the head, when this will be the remedy wanted. Persons who are subject to palpitation with dyspnea, upon any effort, he cannot go uphill, he cannot walk along the pavement without bringing on palpitation and dyspnea; any little exertion or excitement brings on the rush of blood to the heart and fainting spells; fainting, spells in women, who are not supposed to be subject to fainting. Great weakness, palpitation, trembling of the limbs, shaking of one or both hands as with palsy.

"Laborious action of the heart" is a strong feature of the remedy; pulsation all over.

Fluttering in the region of the heart. Pulse quick, irregular, slow or quick and wiry. There are some persons that are apparently plethoric; very much affected by the slightest exertion and who have pulsation all over; pulsation in a warm room. They are sometimes relieved by opening the window if it is cool, by fanning, by cold air, by cold applications to the head. In keeping with the remedy, this is clinical application of it:

"Children get sick in the night after sitting up at an open fire or falling asleep there."

"Bad effects from having the hair cut."

Bell . is generally thought of for taking cold in the head from having the hair cut.

"Bad effects from being exposed to the sun's rays."

"Bad effects from sunstroke."