Hydrastis Canadensis hydr.

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

MUCOUS GLANDS: Nasal cavities. STOMACH. Gall-ducts. Intestines. Muscles. Uterus.

Worse

AIR: Inhaling, cold. Dry winds. Open. Slight bleedings. Washing. Old age.

General

A mucus remedy; hawks up much mucus; mucus in stools, urine, etc. Atonic, cachectic or degenerative conditions. Shallow ulcers. Hæmorrhagic or CATARRHAL processes. Thick, yellow, acrid (Sanic.), ropy secretions. Sense of raw-burning. Weak, dyscrasic and emaciated.

Particulars

Neuralgia of scalp and neck. Thin, yellow, sunken face. Nose; sore; bleeds; bloody crusts. Post-nasal dripping. Dirty, yellow, slimy, flabby, indented tongue (Nat-p. Yuc.). Taste bitter; burnt. Aphthæ. Loathing. Goneness or as of sharp lumps in stomach. Cutting from liver to r. scapula., < lying on back or r. side. Lumpy stool; coated or mixed with mucus. Obstipation; of pregnancy; after purgatives. Mucus in urine. Thick, acrid leucorrhœa. Ulcer of cervix. Loose cough; bloody expectoration. Raises quantities of mucus. Senile bronchitis. Palpitation, with weakness. Heat alternating with chilliness; profuse sweating.

Related

Related: Ars. Kali-bi. Pul.

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

In nasal catarrh, secretions more from posterior nares; thick, tenacious, air feels cold in the nose. Stomatitis in nursing women or weakly children, especially after mercurius or chlorate of potash. Faintness at stomach, sinking, gone feeling. Gonorrhoea, second stage, thick, yellow discharge. Leucorrhoea, tenacious, ropy, thick, yellow. All mucous secretions tenacious, thick, yellow, erosions of mucous surfaces.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Golden Seal (HYDRASTIS)

General

Acts especially on mucous membranes, relaxing them and producing a thick, yellowish, ropy secretion. The catarrh may be anywhere,-throat, stomach, uterus, urethra,-it is always characterized by this peculiar mucous discharge. Hydrastis is especially active in old, easily-tired people, cachectic individuals, with great debility. Cerebral effects prominent, feels his wits sharpened, head cleared, facile expression. Weak muscular power, poor digestion and obstinate constipation. Lumbago. Emaciation and prostration. Its action on the liver is marked. Cancer and cancerous state, before ulceration, when pain is principal symptom. Goitre of puberty and pregnancy. Small-pox internally and locally. The power of Hydrastis over smallpox seen in modifying the disease, abolishing its distressing symptoms, shortening its course, lessening its danger and greatly mitigating its consequences (J. J. Garth Wilkinson).

Mind

Depressed; sure of death, and desires it.

Head

Dull, pressing frontal pain, especially connected with constipation. Myalgic pain in scalp and muscles of neck (Cimicif). Eczema on forehead along line of hair. Sinusitis, after coryza.

Ears

Roaring. Muco-purulent discharge. Deafness. Estachian catarrh, with high-pitched voice.

Nose

Thick, tenacious secretion from posterior nares to throat. Watery, excoriating discharge. Ozæna, with ulceration of septum. Tends to blow nose all the time.

Mouth

Peppery taste. Tongue white, swollen, large, flabby, slimy; shows imprint of teeth (Merc); as if scalded; stomatitis. Ulceration of tongue, fissures toward the edges.

Throat

Follicular pharyngitis. Raw, smarting, excoriating sensation. Hawking of yellow, tenacious mucus (Kali bich). Child is aroused suddenly from sleep by this tenacious post-nasal dropping. Goitre of puberty and pregnancy.

Stomach

Sore feeling in stomach more or less constant. Weak digestion. Bitter taste. Pain as from a hard-cornered substance. Gone feeling. Pulsation in epigastrium. Cannot eat bread or vegetables. Atonic dyspepsia. Ulcers and cancer. Gastritis.

Abdomen

Gastro-duodenal catarrh. Liver torpid, tender. Jaundice. Gallstones. Dull dragging in right groin with cutting sensation into right testicle.

Back

Dull, heavy, dragging pain and stiffness, particularly across lumbar region, must use arms in raising himself from seat.

Rectum

Prolapsed; anus fissured. Constipation, with sinking feeling in stomach, and dull headache. During stool, smarting pain in rectum. After stool, long-lasting pain (Nit ac). Hæmorrhoids; even a light flow exhausts. Contraction and spasm.

Urine

Gleety discharge. Urine smells decomposed.

Male

Gonorrhœa, second stage; discharge thick and yellow.

Female

Erosion and excoriation of cervix. Leucorrhœa, worse after menses (Bov; Calc c); acrid and corroding, shreddy, tenacious. Menorrhagia. Pruritus vulvæ, with profuse leucorrhœa (Calc c; Kreos; Sep). Sexual excitement. Tumor of breast; nipple retracted.

Respiratory

Chest raw, sore, burning. Dry, harsh cough. Bronchial catarrh, later stages. Bronchitis in old, exhausted persons, with thick, yellow, tenacious expectoration. Frequent fainty spells, with cold sweat all over. Feels suffocating when lying on left side. Pain from chest to left shoulder.

Skin

Eruption like variola. Lupus; ulcers, cancerous formations. General tendency to profuse perspiration and unhealthy skin (Hepar).

Relationship

Antidote: Sulph.

Useful after too much Chlorate of Potash for sore throat.

Compare: Xanthorrhiza apifolia; Kali bich; Conium; Ars iod; Phytol; Galium (cancer-nodulated tumor of the tongue); Asterias; Stann; Puls. Also Manzanita (diarrhœa, gonorrhœa, gleet, leucorrhœa, catarrhal conditions). Hydrastinum muriaticum-Muriate of Hydrastia (Locally, in aphthous sore mouth, ulcers, ulcerated sore throat, ozæna, etc. Internally, third dec trit. Is a uterine hæmostatic and vasoconstrictor; metrorrhagia, especially from fibroid tumors; hæmorrhages; in dilatation of the stomach, and chronic digestive disorders). Hydrastin sulph 1x (hæmorrhage of bowels in typhoid). Marrubium-Hoarhound--(a stimulant to mucous membranes, especially laryngeal and bronchial; chronic bronchitis, dyspepsia, and hepatic disorders; colds and coughs).

Dose

Tincture, to thirtieth attenuation. Locally colorless. Hydrastis, mother tincture, or fluid extract.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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

Leaders

Pain and very weak, faint, gone feeling in stomach, which is sometimes actually sunken.

Affections of the mucous membranes, where there is viscid stringy discharge; stomach, bronchi, uterus, etc.

Chronic constipation, that is remarkable for its absence of any other symptoms.

This is more celebrated remedy with the eclectics than with us. They especially value it for what they call its tonic properties and its specific action in the way of healing ulcerations in mucous membranes. We have also found it useful in such cases, but we have more decided indications for its use. For instance, in stomach troubles, where they attribute it curative powers to its tonic properties, we find it especially valuable only when we have this symptom present: "Dull aching pain in stomach which causes a very weak, faint, gone feeling in the epigastrium." The stomach is sometimes actually sunken (objectively). There are two other remedies that have this symptom to a degree almost equal, viz., Sepia and Ignatia, but Sepia is generally in connection with uterine affections while Ignatia is purely nervous. Hydrastis is a good remedy for chronic constipation. E. M. Hale taught that it must be used in tincture or very low dilution. I have found it most efficacious in the 200th. (B. & T.). I once cured a case that was of years' standing, had worn cathartics out, and all the way she could live (her words) was to swallow a spoonful of whole flaxseed with every meal. I have used it in infantile constipation successfully, and it is almost useful when all other symptoms aside from the constipation are conspicuous for their absence. Again, Hydrastis is indicated in affections of mucous membranes where there is a viscid stringy discharge. This is like Kali bichromicum, but the other symptoms of these two remedies are not much alike.

Chronic bronchitis of old debilitated people is sometimes greatly relieved by it; also leucorrhœa, with the stringy discharge as above described.

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

Hydrastis canadensis. Golden Seal. Orange-root. Yellow Puccoon. N. O. Ranunculaceæ. Tincture of the fresh root.

Clinical

Alcoholism. Asthma. Cancer. Catarrh . Chancroids. Constipation. Corns. Dyspepsia . Eczema impetiginoides. Ears, affections of. Faintness . Fistula. Gastric catarrh. Gonorrhœa. Hæmorrhoids. Jaundice. Leucorrhœa. Lip, cancer of. Liver, affections of. Lumbago. Lupus . Menorrhagia. Metrorrhagia. Mouth, sore. Nails, affections of . Nipples, sore. Noises in the head . Nursing-women, sore mouth of. Ozæna . Placenta, adherent. Post-nasal catarrh. Rectum, affections of . Sciatica. Seborrhœa. Stomach, affections of . Syphilis. Taste, disordered. Throat, deafness. Throat, sore. Tongue, affections of . Typhus. Ulcers . Uterus, affections of.

Characteristics

The so-called root of Hydrastis from which the tincture is made is really a perennial underground stem, thick, knotty, and yellow. The yellow colour is very intense, and it has been used by Indians as a dye. The plant is the only specimen of its genus among the Ranunculaceæ. It grows in shady woods, in rich soil, and damp meadows. The fruit is like a raspberry, and the plant is sometimes called Ground Raspberry in consequence. The medicinal properties of Hydrast . were known to the aborigines of America. The first mention of it in medical literature is by Rafinesque ( Medical Botany , 1828). Hale quotes him as saying that it is "tonic, ophthalmic, detergent," and that "it is said to enter into compound remedies for cancer, acting as a detergent tonic, and the Cherokees are supposed to use it in that disease." This is important as showing that the traditional reputation of the plant agrees with the results of later experience. For though by no means a specific in all cases of cancer, it is in cancer cases that Hydrast . has won its chief fame; and I think it may fairly be said that more cases of cancer have been cured with it than with any other single remedy. Thanks to the excellent provings that have been made by homœopaths and the careful observations of able practitioners, we are in a position to use the remedy with much greater precision than formerly. In very many cancer cases there is what has been termed a "pre-cancerous stage," a period of undefined ill-health without any discernible new growth. This stage is generally marked by symptoms of dyspepsia, and this frequently takes the Hydrastis type, which has been well described by A. C. Clifton. The facial expression is dull, heavy, sodden-looking; yellowish-white in colour. The tongue is large, flabby and slimy-looking; bluish-white under the fur (which is yellow, slimy, and sticky), and indented by the teeth. Eructations generally sour, at times putrid. Appetite bad, the power of digesting bread and vegetables especially weak and causing eructations. Weight at stomach, with fulness, empty aching "gone" feeling (this is a grand characteristic of Hydrast ., and it is constant , not occurring at special times like that of Sul ., &c.). < After a meal. The action of the bowels is either infrequent and constipated, or frequent with loose, soft, light-coloured stools. Clifton found this type of dyspepsia occur frequently in phthisical families, and often cured it; and even in cases of actual phthisis this type is not uncommon, the loss of appetite and "goneness" being especially prominent. In dyspepsia Clifton found the tincture and lower attenuations answer best; in catarrh of nose and fauces the higher were better. Catarrh of almost all mucous surfaces is caused by Hydrastis ─ nasal catarrh, pharyngeal, bronchial, gastric, duodenal, intestinal, urethral (gonorrhœa, gleet), vaginal. The characteristic catarrh is yellow (the leading colour of the drug) or white; tough and stringy. The action on the skin is no less marked. Garth Wilkinson found it externally and internally an excellent remedy in small-pox. Eczema impetiginoides, drying into crusts and burning like fire, has been cured with an application of one part Hydras . Ø to nine of glycerine. The burning was removed at once. (I once saw a woman, 60, who had been given Hydrast . Ø gtt. v. in water three times a day, after a week come out in a scarlet rash, raised and nodular, exceedingly irritable, especially at night. It was on every part of the body except the face, and was worst on buttocks and elbows. It remained out a week. The patient at the same time became very ill with sickness and general digestive disorder.) The skin may be jaundiced. There is excessive sweat, especially of armpits or genitals; offensive ulcers; chancroids; fissures. The female genital organs are very much affected: Metrorrhagia, leucorrhœa, pruritus vulvæ, scirrhus of uterus; of breasts; sore mouth of nursing-women; sore nipples. Weiss gave a woman, 31, who had had adherent placenta in several confinements in succession, Hydrast . 3x three drops daily from the fourth month during her last three pregnancies, and each terminated without adherent placenta. Four other cases of habitual adherent placenta were successfully treated in the same way. There is much backache of severe character in connection with many of the Hydrast . conditions. Sometimes it awakens patients in the night. Like many other "yellow" medicines, it has a marked action on the liver, causing jaundice and liver enlargement. Cases of cancer of the liver have been reported cured by it. Fulness, goneness, and constipation are the leading indications. The constipation of Hydrast . is a leading feature of the pathogenesis. There is torpor of the bowels; stools lumpy, covered with yellowish tough mucus; with the constipation continual pain in head, bad taste in mouth. Hydrast . has been a good deal used in bronchial catarrhs with the characteristic tenacious secretion. In one case an over-dose brought on a characteristic attack of asthma ( H. W ., xxxiv. 293). The dose was gtt xx of the liquid extract, and Miodowski, who reported the case, thought there was pulmonary œdema secondary to cardiac weakness induced by the drug. It is worthy of note that most remedies which powerfully act on the skin will also cause an asthmatic state. The symptoms generally are < at night. Skin symptoms are < from warmth; from washing, &c. The catarrhal symptoms are < from harsh, dry winds; out of doors. Rest > ; motion < . There is < by touch; clothing feels uncomfortable about groins. Pressure > many symptoms.

Relations

Antidoted by: Sul. (head symptoms and sciatic pains). It antidotes: Merc. and Chlorate of potass. Compare: Am. m., Ant. c., Kali. bi., and Puls. (mucous membranes); Alo., Collins., Sep., Sul. (lower bowel); Berb., Dig., Gels., Lyc., Pod., Merc. (gastro-duodenal catarrh, involving bile ducts); Nux v. (gastric catarrh of alcoholism); Merc. cor., Euphras. (nasal catarrh); Hepar (syphilitic ozæna, after abuse of mercury or iodide of potash); Ars., Bapt., Con., Condur., Kreas., Phytol. (cancer of breast); Chi. (intermittent); Strychn. (spinal cord); Chel. (cancer of breast; liver affections); Sang. (burnt sensation on tongue); Kali bi. (hair sensation); Ars., Aur. mur., Hydrocot., Ant. t., Bapt., Thuj.

Mind

Forgetful; cannot remember what he is reading or talking about. ─ Irritable; disposed to be spiteful. ─ Gloomy, taciturn, disagreeable. ─ Moaning with occasional outcries from pain. ─ Depression; sure of death and desires it.

Head

Feeling as if intoxicated; headache; weakness. ─ Dull, heavy frontal headache over eyes; catarrhal. ─ Sharp cutting in temples and over eyes; < over l.; > from pressing with the hand. ─ Dull frontal, headache, with dull pain in hypogastrium and small of back. ─ Severe frontal headache; as if brain being pressed against frontal bones. ─ Vertex headache every other day, commencing at 11 a.m., with nausea, retching and anguish. ─ Dull heavy pain in occiput (l.). ─ Aching in cerebellum, first r., later l. side. ─ Myalgic headache in integuments of scalp and muscles of neck. ─ Eczema on margin of hair in front; < coming from the cold into a warm room; oozes after washing. ─ (Seborrhœa sicca).

Eyes

Profuse secretion of tears; smarting and burning of eyes and lids. ─ Lids agglutinated; blepharitis marginalis. ─ Opacity of the cornea. ─ Ophthalmia; catarrhal; scrofulous, with or without ulceration; thick mucous discharge. ─ Dark greenish-yellow conjunctiva.

Ears

Roaring in the ears; like machinery. ─ Pain in r. ear; it disappeared and was followed immediately by fulness in forehead and pain over l. eye. ─ Sharp pain back of r. ear passing to shoulder. ─ Otorrhœa, thick mucous discharge (fetid). ─ Partial stoppage of Eustachian tube. ─ Throat deafness.

Nose

Tickling, like a hair in r. nostril. ─ Constant discharge of thick white mucus; frontal headache. ─ Secretion runs more from posterior nares, thick and tenacious. ─ Coryza watery, excoriating; burning, smarting and rawness in nose (more r. nostril), discharge scanty in room, profuse out of doors; rawness in throat and chest. ─ Sneezing, with fulness over eyes, dull frontal headache, pain in r. breast and down arms. ─ Air feels cold in nose. ─ Nosebleed, l. nostril, with burning rawness; followed by itching. ─ Soreness of cartilaginous septum, bleeding when touched; inner edge of r. ala sore and thickened. ─ Ozæna, with bloody, purulent discharge.

Face

Expression weary, dull, skin pale, or yellow-white. ─ Erysipelatous eruption following flushes of heat. ─ Aphthæ on the lips. ─ (Epithelial cancer of lip.). ─ Tenacious mucus hangs in shreds from mouth.

Mouth

Taste flat; peppery. ─ Tongue swollen, shows marks of teeth, coated white or with a yellow stripe. ─ Tongue as if burned or scalded, later a vesicle forms on the tip. ─ Excessive secretion of thick, tenacious mucus. ─ Stomatitis after mercury or chlorate of potash; nursing-women or weakly children; peppery taste; tongue as if burned or raw, with dark red appearance and raised papillæ. ─ (Cancer of tongue.). ─ (Tumour in hard palate, painful to touch, hard, somewhat elastic, disposed to bleed and discharge offensive matter; climacteric.)

Throat

Uvula sore and relaxed. ─ Throat dry; raw; sore; in morning on waking, felt most on coughing. ─ Hawking of yellow, tenacious mucus from posterior nares and fauces, rawness of fauces. ─ Ulcers in the throat, esp. after mercury. ─ (Cancerous ulcers on l. side of throat, inside.)

10, 11. Appetite and Stomach. ─ Indigestion from atony of the stomach, esp. in old people. ─ Bread or vegetables cause acidity, weakness, indigestion. ─ Eructations of sour fluid. ─ Vomits all she eats, except milk and water mixed. ─ (Cancer.). ─ Faintness at the stomach; sinking, gone feeling, with continued violent palpitation of the heart, preceded by dull aching pains. ─ Marasmus. ─ Acute, distressing cutting pains. ─ Chronic gastric catarrh; ulceration. ─ Carcinoma, with emaciation, goneness.

Abdomen

Torpor of the liver, with pale, scanty stools. ─ Liver atrophied. ─ ) Jaundice, with catarrh of stomach and duodenum. ─ Burning in region of navel, with "goneness," faintness in epigastrium. ─ Loud rumbling, with dull aching in hypogastrium and small of back; < moving. ─ Cutting, colicky pains, with heat and faintness; constipation; > after passing flatus. ─ Cutting in hypogastrium, extending to testicles, faintness after stool. ─ Sharp pain in the cæcal region. ─ Sharp pain in region of spleen, with dull pain and burning in stomach and bowels. ─ Dull dragging in groins, cutting pain extending into testicles. ─ Pains in the groins as if he had strained himself; clothing uncomfortable. ─ Griping pains with the stools. ─ Intestinal catarrh, followed by ulceration.

Stool and Anus

Fetid flatus. ─ Stool (profuse) light coloured, soft, acrid; greenish. ─ Soft stool, followed by faintness. ─ Stool lumpy, covered with (yellow) mucus; constipation. ─ Torpidity, no desire for stool. ─ Obstinate constipation; with dull headache; sinking sensation; with "dyspeptic cough.". ─ Constipation aggravated by cathartic medicines. ─ During stool: smarting burning pains in rectum. ─ After stool: burning and smarting in rectum; long-lasting pain in rectum; hæmorrhoids and fainting; exhaustion. ─ Proctitis. ─ Hæmorrhoids; costive; even a light hæmorrhoidal flow exhausts. ─ Fistula ani.

Urinary Organs

Dull aching in region of kidneys. ─ Urine smells decomposed; increased and of neutral reaction. ─ Catarrh of bladder, with thick, ropy mucous sediment in urine. ─ Dysuria; suppression; incontinence.

Male Sexual Organs

Debility after spermatorrhœa. ─ Gonorrhœa, second stage, thick yellow discharge. ─ Gleet, debility; copious, painless discharge. ─ Dragging in r. groin to testicle; thence to l. testicle, thence to l. groin.

Female Sexual Organs

Aching pains in small of back at climaxis; uterine affections with debility and digestive disorders. ─ Hot watery discharge from uterus. ─ Leucorrhœa: tenacious, ropy, thick yellow. ─ Ulceration of the os, cervix, and vagina; leucorrhœa; debility; prolapsus uteri. ─ Os uteri very tender. ─ Uterine hæmorrhage; menorrhagia and metrorrhagia, with fibroid tumours; at menopause. ─ Pruritus vulvæ, with profuse leucorrhœa; sexual excitement. ─ Lancinating pain in breast extending up to shoulder and down arm. ─ (Cancer of breast, pains like knives thrust into part.). ─ Hard, irregular tumour of l. breast, nipple retracted, glands in axilla enlarged and painful, cachectic appearance. ─ Sore-mouth of nursing women. ─ Abraided, cracked and sore nipples of nursing women.

Respiratory Organs

Scraping in larynx. ─ Dry, harsh (rattling) cough from tickling in larynx. ─ Laryngeal and bronchial catarrh. ─ Bronchitis of old, exhausted people; thick, yellow, tenacious, stringy sputa. ─ Phthisis; with goneness in stomach, emaciation, loss of appetite.

Chest

Rawness in throat and chest. ─ Rawness, soreness, and burning in chest. ─ Asthma and œdema of lungs. ─ (Cancer of r. lung.)

Heart and Pulse

Palpitation with faintness. ─ Palpitation, pain shooting from chest to l. shoulder with numbness of arm; irregular and at times laboured action; < lying either side; feeling of immediate suffocation on attempting to lie on l. side. ─ Heart agitated. ─ Violent long-continued palpitation in morning. ─ Pulse slow during the chill.

Neck and Back

Muscles of neck feel sore. ─ Tired aching across small of back and in limbs; knees ache; > by walking about.

Limbs

Limbs tired, ache, with coryza. ─ Shifting pains in r. arm and leg, then l. leg. ─ Irritable, indolent, or scrofulous ulcers on the legs.

Upper Limbs

Pain from head to shoulders, with aching in both, more l. ─ Rheumatic pains in elbow, forearms, r. shoulder, and first finger of l. hand.

Lower Limbs

Sharp shifting pain in l. limb, from middle of thigh down to middle of leg. ─ Pain from r. hip to knee, while walking. ─ Legs feel weak; knees weak; aching. ─ Aching in sole of l. foot; no relief from change of position. ─ Atonic ulcers on the legs.

Generalities

Faintness, goneness. ─ Weakness, physical prostration. ─ Frequent sudden attacks of fainty spells, with profuse cold sweat all over. ─ Mucous membranes: secretions increased, tenacious, ropy; erosions. ─ Muscles greatly weakened; atony. ─ Small wounds bleed much. ─ Marasmus. ─ Scrofulous and cancerous cachexia. ─ Cancers hard, adherent, skin mottled, puckered; cutting like knives in mammæ. ─ Pressure of hand relieves the head. ─ Clothing feels uncomfortable about the groins.

Skin

Jaundice, dark greenish-yellow colour. ─ Skin dark purplish hue, with heat and tingling, < from motion. ─ Hot, dry skin, with fever. ─ Burning heat and itching in skin. ─ Hyperidrosis: excessive sweat of axillæ and genitals; offensive. ─ Erysipelatoid rash on face, neck, palms, joints of fingers and wrist, with maddening burning heat, later skin exfoliates; pains < at night. ─ Nettlerash ("hives"), < from scratching, < at night. ─ Scarlet raised nodular eruption, excessively irritable, < at night, over whole body except face, most on backs of elbows and on buttocks, preceded by feeling of illness, vomiting and general digestive disorder; lasted a week. ─ Fissures round mucous outlets. ─ Infantile intertrigo. ─ Variola; all stages; itching tingling of the eruption; face swollen; throat raw; pustules dark; faintness and great prostration.

Sleep

Awakened by backache and dull pains in navel and hypogastric region. ─ Dreams wearisome, restless sleep. ─ Difficulty in awaking.

Fever

Chill morning or evening; chilliness, esp. in back or thighs, with aching; pulse slow. ─ Heat in flushes. ─ Great heat of whole body. ─ Constant dull burning pains all the evening. ─ Gastric, bilious or typhoid forms of fever, with gastric disturbances, jaundice and great debility following.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

Mind

Forgetful ; cannot remember what he is reading or talking about.
Irritable ; disposed to be spiteful.
Moaning, with occasional outcries from pain.
Despondency.
Depression of spirits, sure of death and desires it.

Sensorium

Feeling as if intoxicated ; headache ; weakness.

Inner head

Dull, heavy frontal headache over eyes ; catarrhal.
Dull frontal headache, with dull pain in hypogastrium and small of back.
Severe frontal headache.
Sharp cutting in temples and over eyes ; < over left ; > from pressing with hand.
Dull, pressing pain on top of head, pressing outward from ears, at 10.30 A. M.
Vertex headache in paroxysms, every other day, commencing about 11 A. M., with excessive nausea, retching and anguish.
Headache of a nervous gastric character, almost constant.
Frontal headaches ; headaches arising from catarrh, gastric difficulties, indigestion, dyspepsia, acidity of stomach, as well as from bilious disorder, constipation, piles, uterine disorder, etc.

Outer head

Myalgic headache, in integuments of scalp and muscles of neck.
Weeping eruption on forehead along margin of hair, after taking cold ; < from warmth of room after having been in cold air ; itching when warm ; < washing. θ Eczema.
Scalp and face covered with thick crusts, which upon removal, expose red, raw and infiltrated patches. θ Eczema.
Scalp caked over with a thick, sebaceous secretion ; hair dry and lustreless ; debility and insufficient nourishment after typhoid fever. θ Seborrhœa sicca.
Laceration of scalp above left temple, several inches in length, crescentic in shape ; wound suppurated and became a troublesome sore.

Sight and eyes

Dark greenish yellow colored conjunctiva.
Jaundiced eyes.
Lack of accommodative power of eyes and asthenopia.
Opacity of cornea ; scrofulous ophthalmia, with or without ulceration ; thick mucous discharge.
Profuse secretion of tears ; smarting of eyes ; burning of eyes and lids.
Pain and burning in eyes.
Inflammation and ulceration of conjunctiva.
Acute catarrhal ophthalmia, the result of daily exposure to harsh dry winds ; inflammation nearly extended to border of iris ; lids greatly swollen and excoriated ; profuse catarrhal secretion.
Ophthalmia : catarrhal ; scrofulous ; thick mucous discharge.
Chronic inflammation of eyes.
Mucous membrane of eyelids much congested ; profuse, thick, white mucous discharge.
Discharge of matter from eyes, resulting from catarrhal inflammation.
Conjunctivitis siccus with sensation of dryness and scratching, and feeling of weight and heaviness of upper lids.
Blepharitis marginalis.
Large painful stye on left lid.

Hearing and ears

Deafness.
Roaring in ears, like from machinery.
Tinnitus aurium, from catarrh of inner ear.
Membrana tympani purplish and bulging.
Perforation of membrani tympani.
Mucous membrane of middle ear eroded, granular and exuberant with polypoid growths.
Purulent inflammation of middle ear, with thick, tenacious discharge, more mucus than pus.
Bland mucous discharge, associated with dropping in posterior nares.
Thick, offensive, irritating catarrhal and purulent discharges from external auditory meatus.
Otorrhœa, thick mucous discharge.
Ears red, thickened and covered with scales ; skin back of each pinna red, thickened and fissured at their connection with side of head.

Smell and nose

Tickling, like a hair, in right nostril.
The air feels cold in nose.
Stuffed up, smarting sensation in posterior nares, with discharge of thin, clear mucus.
Stuffiness of nares, and discharge of thick, white or yellow tenacious and stringy mucus, or frequent dropping down of mucus from posterior nares into throat.
Sharp, raw, excoriated feeling in both nares, with constant inclination to blow nose ; hoarseness.
Posterior nares clogged with mucus.
Secretion, more from posterior nares, thick, tenacious.
Sneezing, with fulness over eyes, dull frontal headache, pain in right breast and down arms.
Coryza watery, excoriating ; burning in nose, more right nostril ; discharge scanty in room, profuse out of doors ; rawness in throat and chest.
Coryza, with copious secretion of white mucus and tears.
Fluent coryza, followed by thick catarrhal discharge.
Bloody purulent discharge from nose.
Influenza in cold, weak, debilitated persons.
Catarrhal influenza.
Secretions so profuse as to be removed in long tenacious shreds or pieces.
Constant thick white mucous discharge, with frontal headache ; discharge of yellowish stringy mucus into throat.
Constant discharge of thick white mucus from nose ; coryza with frontal headache. θ Nasal catarrh.
Discharge of thick white mucus from nose ; lachrymation ; thickening of membrane of posterior nares ; swelling of turbinated bones ; large crusts forming in nasal fossa ; occasional thin mucous discharge ; raw, smarting sensation in nostrils ; pains in
ears. θ Nasal catarrh.
Profuse discharge of thick, yellowish, stringy mucus from nasal passages.
Discharge of thick yellow matter from nose.
Chronic nasal catarrh.
Ozæna, with bloody, purulent discharge.
Obstruction of nasal passages.
Soreness of cartilaginous septum, bleeding when touched ; inner edge of right ala sore and thickened.
Nosebleed, left nostril, with burning rawness ; followed by itching.
After apparent recovery from diphtheria, formation of a diphtheritic membrane in left nostril and in vagina, the former being completely plugged up.
Diphtheritic affections of nose.

Upper face

Expression weary, dull, skin pale, or yellow-white.
Pale face, worn, weary expression.
Yellow complexion.
Erysipelatous eruption following flushes of heat.
Chills passing down back, followed by burning fever ; pulse 120 ; headache in supraorbital region, excruciating pain in lumbar region ; face red, left side of nose swollen ; great tenderness of cervical glands, urine high colored ; inflammation passed from left
side of nose to right ear, eye, scalp and whole face, right eye being closed ; extreme restlessness, disturbed by least noise ; urine suppressed for twenty-four hours ; delirium. θ Erysipelas
erratica.
Left cheek swollen ; left eye closed ; pain and burning, chills, flushes ; pulse 100. θ Erysipelas.
Forehead, cheeks and nose slightly red and very greasy ; follicles plugged with comedones ; skin dirty in patches. θ Seborrhœa oleosa.
Forehead, cheeks and chin covered with small red elevations with black points-acne punctata-and papulo-pustules ; digestion feeble, bowels torpid.
Ulcer on nose and eyelid ; base of ulcer of a dingy, reddish-yellow color, dry, glazed and free from granulations, and discharge but slight.

Lower face

Aphthæ on lips ; tongue swollen.
Itching, tingling and swelling of face. θ Smallpox.
Pimples about mouth and chin.
Epithelial cancer of lip.
Tenacious mucus hangs in shreds from mouth.

Taste, speech, tongue

Gums dark red and swollen.
Taste : flat ; peppery ; bitter or saltish.
Tongue and lips parched, red and dry.
Dryness of tongue, with sensation as if it had been burned.
Tongue as if burned or scalded, later a vesicle on tip.
Tongue coated yellowish-white.
Tongue foul and coated with thick white fur.
Large, flabby, slimy looking tongue.
Tongue large and flabby, showing imprint of teeth. θ Stomatitis.
Tongue : swollen, showing marks of teeth ; coated white, or with a yellow stripe.
Tongue raw, dark red, with raised papillæ.
Cancerous affections of tongue.

Inner mouth

Excessive secretion of thick, tenacious mucus.
Gums and mucous membrane of mouth dark red and swollen ; uvula relaxed and sore ; hawking of large quantities of yellow tenacious mucus from throat, leaving a sensation of rawness.
Mucous membrane of fauces studded with round, protuberant spots of a red color, as if injected with blood, < from least exposure to cold.
Soreness and rawness of mouth, with raised papillæ and dark red appearance of mucous membranes.
Follicular and catarrhal ulcers with exceedingly tenacious mucus in mouth.
Stomatitis : after mercury or chlorate of potash ; in nursing women or weakly children ; with peppery taste ; tongue as if burned, or raw, with dark red appearance and raised papillæ ; during course of eruptive fevers.
Aphthous sore mouth.
Jaws set ; liquids swallowed with difficulty ; power of articulation lost ; ulceration of mouth. θ Mercurial salivation.
Gangrenous sore mouth after abuse of mercury and chlorate of potash.
Syphilitic affections of mouth, throat and nares.
Syphilitic angina.
Dense, irregular tumor in hard palate, painful to touch, and somewhat elastic, disposed to bleed and to discharge offensive matter ; climacteric. θ Cancer.

Palate and throat

Uvula sore and relaxed.
Hawking of yellow tenacious mucus from posterior nares and fauces ; rawness of fauces ; ulcers in throat ; after mercury and chlorate of potash.
Pain on swallowing as from excoriation.
Sensation of rawness in throat, after hawking up large quantities of tenacious mucus.
Tingling and smarting in throat.
Soreness of neck and throat, with relaxation of palate.
Great swelling, redness and itching, and great soreness of throat.
Sore throat arising from irritation of stomach and lower portion of œsophagus.
Sore throat from gastric derangement.
Ulcerated sore throat : with putrid odor ; from salivation by mercury or after chlorate of potash.
Angina with ulceration, accompanying scarlatina.
Chronic angina, with round, protuberant red spots in throat, with sensation of roughness and stiffness when swallowing.
Chilliness although well covered ; headache of a beating or darting character, and not confined to any one locality ; stools consist entirely of blood ; epistaxis. θ Diphtheria.
Pseudo-membranes, or tenacious mucous secretions, resembling diphtheria, with or without ulceration.
Diphtheritic sore throat.
Syphilitic angina.
Syphilitic sore throat.
Results of mercurial salivation.
Chronic catarrhal affections of throat.
Follicular pharyngitis.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Anorexia.
Poor appetite, with constipation of seven or eight weeks' standing.
Little thirst, with loathing of food.

Eating and drinking

Indigestion from atony of stomach.
Bread, or vegetables cause acidity, weakness, indigestion.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Eructations putrid, or more commonly sour.
Vomits all she eats, except milk and water.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Sinking at epigastrium and palpitation of heart.
Violent pulsations in epigastrium, and palpitation of heart, with heavy, dull, hard thumping, fulness of chest and dyspnœa.
Even slight pressure of hand reveals strong pulsations in pit of stomach.
Feeling of weight in stomach and epigastrium.
Anorexia with dyspeptic feeling in epigastrium.
Pain at pit of stomach and extreme emaciation, with vomiting of all food save milk and water. θ Cancer of stomach.
Pains in stomach five or six years, then loss of strength, great sensitiveness of epigastric region, in which pulsations isochronous with pulse were perceived, and a flattened, resistant tumor of some two inches in diameter ; in a few months pains
became insufferable, loss of appetite and sleep alarming, frequent vomiting and great anguish about heart almost permanent ; tumor pronounced scirrhous. θ Epigastric tumor with marasmus.
Flat, resistant tumor, two inches in diameter in epigastrium, sensitive to pressure, pulsations synchronous with pulse, insufferable pains, frequent vomiting, loss of appetite, anguish about heart, sleeplessness, loss of strength. θ Cancer.
Faintness at stomach ; sinking, gone feeling, with continued violent palpitation of heart.
Dull, aching pain in stomach, which causes a very weak faintish feeling, goneness in epigastric region ; acidity ; constipation.
Stomach actually sunken ; weak, faint. θ Marasmus.
Weight and fulness in stomach, or an empty, aching, "gone" feeling, more or less constant, < by a meal.
Food seems to lie heavy in stomach.
Pain in pit of stomach.
Acute, distressing, cutting pains in stomach.
Weakness of digestion, with heavy, dull, hard, thumping fulness of chest and dyspnœa.
Weakness of digestion, pale tongue, fulness and uneasiness in stomach after eating, weakness of body and limbs, with depression of spirits.
Weakness of digestion with debility, particularly in diseases from exhaustion, and in latter stages of nervous fevers.
Indigestion from an atonic state of stomach, with debility.
Indigestion, with acidity and general weakness.
Constant acid mucous vomitings ; obstinate constipation ; wretched nights ; tongue coated ; looks ill and pale ; is thin and hysterical ; pulse quiet ; faintings every day from exhaustion ; appetite good, but nearly all food returning intensely
acid ; no actual disease could be detected about her ; has taken great quantities of acid and alkaline mixtures and has habitually used purgatives. θ Mucous irritation et morbus
medicinalis.
Sympathetic affections of digestive organs arising from uterine disease.
Gastric disorders of intemperate people.
Flatulency, distension and painful digestion of dyspeptics.
Chronic gastric catarrh ; chronic dyspepsia.
Gastro-duodenal catarrh ; sense of sinking and prostration at epigastrium, with violent and continued palpitation of heart.
Chronic ulceration of mucous membrane of stomach.
Chronic affections of stomach, especially of mucous membrane.
Chronic inflammation of stomach.
Carcinoma, with emaciation ; goneness.

Hypochondria

Fulness and dull aching in right hypochondrium.
Torpor of liver, with pale, scanty stools.
Jaundice, with catarrh of stomach and duodenum.
Skin very yellow ; stools white and frequent ; urine very dark ; skin hot ; tongue coated ; great weariness and depression ; legs anasarcous ; bad nights ; no appetite ; slight difficulty of breathing ; much fulness and tenderness over
hepatic region ; great aching in shoulder-blades. θ Subacute inflammation of liver.
Severe pain in stomach and bowels ; skin and eyes dark, greenish-yellow ; urine very dark ; feces light colored ; great debility. θ Jaundice.
Jaundice from structural disease of liver.
Catarrhal inflammation of mucous lining of gall bladder and biliary ducts.
Functional disorders of liver in connection with intermittent fever.
Chronic derangement of liver.
Liver enlarged, indurated, nodulated, and sensitive to pressure ; tumor in epigastrium as large as a hen's egg, doughy in consistency, and in centre a small spot as if filled with fluid ; after eating, vomiting of food incorporated with sour,
putrid mucus ; thirst, loss of appetite, diarrhœa, weakness, emaciation, sleeplessness.
Liver atrophied. θ Marasmus.
Sharp pain in region of spleen, with constant dull pain in stomach and bowels, with hot, burning sensation.
Severe cutting pains in splenic and cecal regions, and in hypogastrium.

Abdomen and loins

Burning in region of navel, with goneness and faintness in epigastrium.
Severe cutting pain in hypogastric region, extending into testicle, occurring after stool, with faint feeling.
Sense of constriction in hypogastric region.
Loud rumbling, with dull aching in hypogastrium and small of back ; < moving.
Flatulent colic, accompanied by faintness.
Flatulent colic ; sensation of a lump of the size of a hen's egg, rising and falling in right iliac and lumbar regions ; sharp pains around umbilicus extending to left ovarian and splenic regions ; moaning with occasional outcries ; very restless, no sleep ;
abdominal walls painful on pressure ; discharge of flatulency, sounding like the report of a pistol ; tongue and lips parched and dry ; little thirst and loathing of food ; constipation of bowels ; offensive pus-like discharge from vagina ; great tenderness of
os uteri ; countenance pale and haggard ; hiccough ; hectic fever ; cold sweats and bedsores.
Cutting, colicky pains, with heat and faintness ; constipation ; > after passing flatus.
Colicky pains, with fainting turns and heat in bowels, following constipation.
Griping, with profuse light colored diarrhœa.
Griping, with light acrid stools.
Sharp pain in region of spleen, with dull pain and burning in stomach and bowels.
Pain in large intestines and rectum.
Sharp pain in cecal region.
Sensation of great fulness in left iliac region.
Dull dragging in groins, cutting pains extending into testicles.
Pains in groin, as if he had strained himself ; clothing uncomfortable.
Intestinal catarrh, followed by ulceration.
Blenorrhœa of the intestines.
Chronic intestinal catarrh.
Chronic catarrhal or croupous enteritis.

Stools and rectum

Urging to urinate, and sensation as if bowels would move, but only wind passes.
Discharge of flatus with great noise.
Fetid flatus.
Stools loose, soft, light colored, with flatus.
Soft stool, followed by severe cutting pain in hypogastrium, with dull aching in testicles and faintness.
Slimy, tenacious discharges with tenesmus ; or when feces are in form of hard balls coated over with yellowish, tough mucus. θ Chronic enteritis.
Stool : light colored, soft ; acrid ; greenish ; lumpy, covered with mucus ; hard, knotty.
Stools hard and nodulated, of a gray or brown color.
Constipation ; feces like bullets.
One or two stools a week, very hard but of natural color.
Scanty stools occasionally, alternating with discharge of membranous casts.
Torpidity and want of desire for stool.
Constipation more from sluggish state of bowels than from diseased condition of system.
Obstinate constipation where catarrhal indigestion is coincident.
Obstinate constipation and its attendant dull headache in forehead ; weak feeling in epigastric region ; sour eructations and "dyspeptic cough", with copious expectoration of thick mucus.
Constipation of long standing, aggravated by cathartic medicines ; patients weak and feeble ; complexion sallow ; tongue foul ; pain in lower bowels and rectum ; indigestion ; stools hard and nodulated.
Constipation, one or two stools a week for eight years, and then only after use of purgatives ; continual pain in head, especially in morning ; bad taste in mouth with coated tongue ; pain in back and shoulders ; sensation of constriction in hypogastric region, >
only by purgation ; yellow or rather bilious tint of face, skin smooth and dry ; severe pain after each stool, which is hard and knotty, and of a brown color.
Constipation : headache and piles ; after stools, for hours severe pain in rectum and anus ; colic pains with fainting turns and heat in bowels ; anemia ; remittent fever ; after purgative medicines.
Three weeks after confinement was seized, while at stool, with severe burning, stinging pains in rectum and anus, lasting six to eight hours after each evacuation ; and accompanied with a sensation of heat in intestines, colic pains and fainting ; every week one or two very
hard, but natural colored stools.
Sore neck, sore throat which is much relaxed and inflamed ; headache ; cough and expectoration ; pain in side while stooping and rising from recumbent position ; foul breath ; tongue foul and coated with a thick white fur ; appetite poor ;
constipated ; after purgatives.
Constipation and hemorrhoids during pregnancy, with severe pain during stool, no hemorrhage.
Constipated habit since birth, after failure of cathartics and enemas.
Constipation : with piles ; of hepatic origin ; following rheumatic fever ; the cause of other ailments.
After stool : long lasting pain in rectum ; hemorrhoids and fainting ; exhaustion.
Smarting, burning pains in rectum, during and after each stool.
Proctitis.
Ulceration of rectum, after bad cases of dysentery.
Prolapsus of rectum ; simple prolapsus in children, with congestion and swelling of mucous membrane, and marked constipation.
Fistula ani with constipation, piles and ulceration.
Fissures and excoriations of anus.
Hemorrhoids, when a small loss of blood is followed by excessive weakness.
Painful hemorrhoids, with paroxysms of headache and constipation ; severe burning, smarting pains in rectum, before and after each stool ; colic pains, with attacks of faintness and heat in intestines, often follow evacuations, after a constipation of several days.
Hemorrhoidal swellings which bleed profusely at times ; much prolapsus recti ; offensive, dirty-looking, hemorrhoidal discharge from anus, obliging him to wear a bandage.
Piles and headache with constipation.

Urinary organs

Dull aching in region of kidneys.
Catarrh of bladder, with thick, ropy, mucous sediment in urine.
Chronic cystitis ; diabetes ; gravel.
Symptoms of ulceration of bladder.
Difficulty in making water.
Suppression of urine.
Incontinence of urine.
Urine increased and of neutral reaction.
High colored urine which deposits a cloudy sediment while standing.
Urine smells as if decomposed.

Male sexual organs

Debility, after spermatorrhœa.
Spermatorrhœa, incipient stricture, chronic gonorrhœa, gleet, inflammation and ulceration of whole internal coat of bladder.
Gonorrhœa, second stage, thick, yellow discharge.
Long lasting gonorrhœa, accompanied by great moral and physical depression.
Acute or chronic gonorrhœa ; feeling of debility and faintness after each passage from bowels.
Catarrh of urethra ; after acute gonorrhœa, a gleety discharge remains ; copious, painless, urethral discharge ; spurious gonorrhœa ; relaxation of urethral mucous membrane, and a consequent weeping, the discharge being almost watery in character.
Gleet with debility ; copious, painless, sometimes thick discharge.
Dragging in right groin to testicle, thence to left testicle, thence to left groin.

Female sexual organs

Aching pains in small of back at change of life ; uterine affections, accompanied by debility and disorder of digestive functions.
Offensive, pus-like discharges from vagina.
Great tenderness of os uteri.
Discharge of tough, stringy mucus from os uteri.
Mucous leucorrhœa ; uterine and vaginal catarrh.
Epithelial abrasion of os and cervix uteri and vagina, with superficial ulceration of parts.
Cervix uteri swollen, indurated and eroded.
Ulceration of os, cervix and vagina ; leucorrhœa ; debility ; prolapsus uteri.
Hot, watery discharge from uterus.
Uterine diseases with sympathetic affections of digestive organs.
Uterine hemorrhage, menorrhagic form ; bleeding excessive for ten days during each period, attended with pain and anemia ; hemorrhage from fibroid tumor ; congestive dysmenorrhœa ; sub-involution of uterus ; metritis ; endometritis ; menopause.
Metrorrhagia : consequent upon fibroid tumors ; in girls fifteen to eighteen years of age ; puerperal hemorrhages ; endometritis.
Profuse menses for a year, flowing ten days or more ; dysmenorrhœa ; great prostration and anemia.
After catching cold by getting feet wet during menstruation, severe pains in bowels and uterine region, "it felt like wind ;" a lump, size of a hen's egg, rises and falls in r. iliac and lumbar regions ; sharp pains around umbilicus, extending to left ovarian and
splenic region ; continual moaning and distressing outcries ; very restless ; sleepless ; abdominal walls painful to pressure ; discharge of flatus which sounds like report of pistol.
Tongue and lips parched and dry ; little thirst ; loathing of food ; constipation ; injections per anum followed by bullet-shaped feces ; offensive, pus-like discharge from vagina ; great tenderness of os uteri ; pale and haggard ;
hiccough ; hectic fever ; cold sweats ; bedsores. θ Uterine affections.
Regurgitation of food by mouthful, without nausea, which, however, affords relief ; despondent and gloomy ; when food is retained suffers from headache palpitation of heart and nervousness, or restlessness ; bad taste in throat from breath ;
mouth very dry in morning, and tongue thickly coated ; sour risings from stomach ; great quantities of wind in stomach causing distress until discharged ; after eating must keep quiet or she becomes feverish and distressed ; pain in bowels three or four hours after eating
with inclination to stool ; pain and soreness of liver ; after dinner nervous and irritable, cannot bear to be spoken to ; becomes so nervous that to hear any one speak is unbearable and head aches intensely ; on closing eyes sees sparks and light spots ; pain in and
over eyeballs ; pain on opening eyes ; cannot sleep until after midnight ; epigastric region very tender to touch ; sensation as of a tight band around waist, < at night ; constant coldness of hands, feet and limbs while head is hot ; constipation, feces at
first dry and lumpy, afterwards like white of egg ; great straining at stool ; nosebleed before menses ; menses delayed, preceded and accompanied by severe pains in back and headache ; constant, acrid, corroding leucorrhœa < ten days after menses cease ; when
standing feels as if everything would fall out ; very tender about vulva ; discharge like white of egg, coming on immediately after menses cease, lasting ten days or longer, profuse and debilitating ; severe pain in small of back and in back part of legs ; pain in inside
of legs above knees ; coition very painful, with almost constant desire, especially during the time she has "white of egg" discharge, amounting to furor uterinus ; after coition prostration and distress in stomach ; commences at once to spit up the last meal, or has
taste of it in mouth ; the "white of egg" discharge usually becomes red, bloody fluid, and soon as it ceases she becomes irritable and angry with every one, and cannot endure idea of coition, any reference to it making her angry ; constant desire to pass water, and when a
little is passed she is relieved, and it seems to her that if she could pass a great quantity of water she would feel still better ; in morning this desire is less ; at times, discharges of hot water from womb, which is so profuse as to wet bed and all her clothes ; uterus
prolapsed ; os indurated and congested ; all symptoms > by lifting womb into place and holding it there ; > in recumbent posture.
Tenacious, viscid leucorrhœa, uterine or vaginal.
Mucous leucorrhœa, discharge hanging from os in long viscid strings.
Yellow, tenacious leucorrhœa, long threads or pieces in it ; sometimes offensive.
Leucorrhœa tenacious, ropy, thick, yellow.
Leucorrhœa complicated with hepatic derangement and constipation.
Pruritus vulvæ, with profuse leucorrhœa ; sexual excitement.
Lancinating pain in breast, extending up to shoulder and down arms.
Pain in left breast, so bad as to prevent all rest at night.
Pain in breast, almost unbearable, causing a worn and haggard appearance of countenance.
Pains accompanying cancer in breast.
Scirrhous tumor of left breast ; hard, heavy and adherent to skin, which is dark, mottled and very much puckered, the nipple being retracted ; pains like knives thrust into the part ; cachectic appearance of face.
Stony hard, nodulated tumor in left breast, unattached to skin, perfectly movable and as large as a filbert ; lancinating pains.
Cancer of left breast as large as a small egg, with retraction of nipple.
Hard, irregular enlargement of left breast ; nipple retracted, and glands of left axilla enlarged and painful ; mother had died of cancer of tongue. θ Cancer.
Irregular nodule of scirrhus of mamma, with retraction of nipple ; enlargement of axillary glands ; health poor ; sallow complexion.
Epithelioma of mamma.
In a case of open cancer of left breast, which had been ulcerated for four or five years, it diminished the ulcerated surface, which was as large as half crown, to a size not as large as a pea.
In open cancer of right mamma, relieved the constant burning pain and favored healing, healthy granulations making their appearance.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Pregnancy, Parturition, Lactation
Sore mouth of nursing women ; tongue large, and retains the impression made by teeth.
Abraded, cracked and sore nipples of nursing women.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Scraping in larynx.
Cough, with rawness of larynx ; tingling and smarting in throat ; hawks up tenacious, yellow or white mucus ; pain on swallowing as if throat were excoriated ; cough rough, harsh and rattling, and continued day and night ; abdominal congestion. θ Laryngo-tracheitis.
θ Bronchitis.
Bronchial catarrh of old people, with debility, loss of appetite, and a general cachectic condition.
Catarrhal cough of long standing, with febrile symptoms in evening and night, with debility in children.
Rough, harsh and rattling cough, day and night.

Cough

Dry, harsh cough, from tickling in larynx.
Chronic catarrhal cough, with febrile paroxysms in evening and night, with debility ; cough rough, harsh and rattling, continued day and night.
Chronic cough, accompanied by febrile paroxysms evenings and night, and excessive prostration ; sputa thick, yellowish, very tenacious, stringy and profuse.
Old man's cough ; senile catarrh.

Inner chest and lungs

Rawness, soreness and burning in chest.
Bronchitis of old, exhausted people ; thick, yellow, tenacious, stringy sputa.
Phthisis, to relieve goneness in stomach, emaciation, loss of appetite.
Cancer of right lung, with nodules in external walls of chest (relieved).

Heart, pulse and circulation

Palpitation, with faintness.
Dyspnœa, with heavy beating of heart.
Intermittent pulsation of heart.
Palpitation of heart, with heavy, dull, hard, thumping fulness of chest and dyspnœa, in connection with dyspepsia.
Palpitation, pain shooting from chest to left shoulder, with numbness of arm ; irregular, and at times labored action of heart ; cannot lie on either side ; feeling of immediate suffocation on attempting to lie on left side ; unable from weakness and dizziness to sit
in erect posture ; sounds of chest dull on percussion ; heart has a muffled sound, as if laboring in a sac of water ; a blowing and rushing sound in under portion, and peculiar noise at each stroke, like striking knuckle against a hard substance ; swelling of abdomen,
particularly upper portion ; œdema of legs ; urine scanty and turbid ; constipation ; tongue yellowish-white ; no appetite ; food causes nausea ; frequent sinking spells. θ Heart
disease.
Pulse slow, during the chill.

Outer chest

Pain in right breast and down arm.
Thoracic or intercostal myalgia.

Neck and back

Ulcers under right and left inferior maxilla from broken down lymphatic glands.
Chronic suppuration and swelling of cervical glands ; great weakness. θ Scrofula.
Excoriations in folds of skin of neck. θ Intertrigo.
Muscles of neck feel sore.
Pain in back and shoulders.
Aching pain in small of back in women, at change of life.
Debility and weakness in back and lower limbs, > by walking about.
Tired aching across small of back and in limbs ; knees ache.
Stiffness in muscles of lumbar region while bending over for a short time, causing great difficulty when assuming an erect posture ; dull, heavy, dragging pain and stiffness of back, especially across lumbar region, necessitating use of arms to rise from a seat ; must walk
about some time before being able to straighten up.

Upper limbs

Pain from head to shoulders, with aching in both, more the left.
Rheumatic pains in elbow, forearms, right shoulder and first finger of left hand.
Right arm, from tips of fingers to shoulder, greatly swollen, and one mass of sores, discharging fetid pus ; glands in axilla tender and swollen ; elbow enlarged and full of sores ; exceedingly weak and nervous, owing to severe pain and constant loss of sleep ;
emaciation.
Small boils, two or three inches apart on hands, arms and shoulders, some papular with inflamed area, others pustular.
Ulcer from a burn, on back of hand, greatly inflamed and very painful ; could hardly move wrist.

Lower limbs

Pain from right hip to knee, while walking ; cannot stand or bear one's weight.
Legs feel weak ; knees weak ; aching.
Outer part of left knee aches while sitting, < when walking.
Erysipelas of lower extremities.
Bright efflorescence from patella to bend of foot ; scaly skin slightly broken here and there, having in some places a jagged and cracked appearance ; slight serous moisture ; intolerable itching.
Irritable and indolent ulcers on legs.
Atonic old ulcers on legs.
Scrofulous ulcers on leg and foot.
Ulcers on both legs resulting from injuries.
Dry, superficial, angry looking ulcers on legs ; covered by a yellow scab ; stinging burning pain ; areola inflamed, and covered by pimples, which frequently degenerate into ulcers ; faint fetid odor ; circular shape with flat edges ; one of ulcers had high
and thick edges ; no pus ; < at night also from warmth of bed, on motion, or on touching them ; left side.
Three large ulcers each one of which seems to belong to a separate class, around right ankle ; one in front is circular with high elevated edges slightly rounded, surrounded by inflamed skin ; irregular base, bleeds readily and discharges a thin corrosive ichor ; one on
outside is circular, with clean, sharp cut edges, deep, smooth, shining base, but with ichorous discharge ; inside one is largest, ragged, irregular and deep ; rough base ; high, rounded and swollen edges at upper part, well defined at the lower ; discharge of grayish,
putrid, thick pus and has one or two patches of large, flabby, pale granulations ; pain from motion and from warmth of bed ; on stepping on ground pricking sensation in sores, and on sitting down to rest after motion, shooting or lancinating pain in ulcers.
Extensive œdema of foot and ankle.
Aching in sole of left foot ; no > from change of position.
Dorsal surface of feet red, infiltrated, especially about toes, between which are deep fissures ; aggravations from ointments ; poor digestion ; constipation alternating with diarrhœa.
Hard, nodulated tumor as large as a walnut on dorsum of foot ; occasionally painful.
Scrofulous ulcers in hollow of sole of foot, and over tarsal and metatarsal bones, discharging pus and sanious matter ; loss of appetite ; pale face ; melancholia.

Limbs in general

Limbs tired and aching. θ Coryza.
Shifting pains in right arm and leg, then left leg.

Rest. position. motion

Lying : on left side causes feeling of immediate suffocation ; cannot lie on either side.
Recumbent position : > womb complaints.
Sitting : outer part of left knee aches after motion ; shooting pains in ulcers ; in erect posture, dizziness.
Standing : feels as if everything would fall out.
Dull, heavy, dragging pain and stiffness of back especially across lumbar region, necessitating use of arms to rise from a seat ; must walk about some time before being able to straighten up.
Rising from recumbent position : pain in side.
Stooping : pain in side ; causes stiffness of muscles in lumbar region.
Walking : weakness in back and lower limbs ; pain in right hip and knee ; outer part of left knee aches.
Moving : < rumbling in abdomen with dull aching in hypogastrium and small of back ; can hardly move wrist on account of ulcers ; ulcers on legs <.

Nerves

Frequent sudden attacks of fainty spells, with profuse cold sweat all over. θ Cancerous ulcers on left side of throat, inside.
Cachectic condition with loss of appetite and fainting.
After measles, great emaciation, depression of spirits ; easily excited to anger ; liver reduced in size ; urine scanty and high colored. θ Marasmus.
General debility.
Debility from gastric, bilious and typhoid fevers.
Faintness, goneness, great weakness and physical prostration.

Sleep

Awakened by backache and dull pains in navel and hypogastric region.
Dreams worrisome ; restless sleep.
Difficulty in awaking.

Time

Morning : continual pain in head ; mouth very dry ; desire to pass water > ; chill.
At 10.30 A. M. : dull, piercing pain on top of head, outward from ears.
Day : cough.
Evening : febrile symptoms ; chill ; dull, burning pain.
At 10 P. M. : great heat of whole body.
Night : feeling of tight band around waist < ; cannot sleep on account of pain in left breast ; cough ; febrile symptoms ; ulcers on legs < ; chilliness ; delirium ; erysipelatous rash ; pains <.
Before midnight : cannot sleep.

Temperature and weather

Warmth : < weeping eruption on forehead after having been in cold air ; causes itching ; ulcers on legs.
In room : discharge scanty from nose.
Washing : < eruption on forehead.
Getting feet wet during menses : severe pain in bowels.
Harsh, dry winds : cause acute catarrhal ophthalmia.
Out of doors : discharge from nose profuse.

Fever

Chill morning or evening ; chilliness, especially in back or thighs, with aching, or around shoulders and chest ; pulse slow.
Chilliness at night.
Heat, in flushes over face, neck and hands.
Great heat of whole body, dull, burning pain all evening.
Great heat of whole body, at 10 P. M., followed by great debility.
Profuse, offensive sweat of genitals.
Gastric, bilious or typhoid forms of fever, with gastric disturbances, jaundice and great debility following.
Fevers which do not reach a high grade of inflammatory action, but which are attended with gastric and bilious disturbances, or complicated with jaundice, and the deleterious effects of mercury or quinine.
Intermittent fever : cachectic subjects ; gastric and hepatic symptoms, showing atony and torpor ; vertex headache in paroxysms every other day, commencing at 11 A. M., with excessive nausea, retching and anguish.
Quotidian fevers, with gastric disturbance ; jaundice.
Catarrhal symptoms which frequently precede measles ; also favors development of eruption.
Typhoid fever with characteristic temperature ; for days before attack feeling of entire goneness in pit of stomach, with no desire for food ; abdominal tenderness, gurgling in ileo-cecal region, with bloated abdomen ; delirium at night ; a feeling that he could not
recover.
Typhoid fever ; retarded convalescence ; will eat nothing ; tongue large, flabby, thickly coated, and shows imprint of teeth ; bowels constipated ; urine scanty ; copious sweats ; sleeplessness.
Hectic fever.

Attacks, periodicity

Every day : faintings.
For hours : after stool, severe pain in rectum.
Three or four hours after eating : pains in bowels.
Twenty-four hours : urine suppressed.
Every other day : vertex headache at 11 A. M.
For days before attack of typhoid fever : feeling of entire goneness in pit of stomach.
For ten days : excessive bleeding, uterine hemorrhage ; after menses leucorrhœa <.
Three weeks after confinement : seized after stool with severe burning, stinging pains in rectum and anus, lasting six or eight hours after each evacuation.
For a year : profuse menses flowing for ten days.
For four or five years : open cancer of left breast.
For eight years : one or two stools a week.

Locality and direction

Right : tickling like a hair in nostril ; pain in breast ; burning in nostril ; inner edge of ala nasi sore and thickened ; inflammation in ear ; eye closed from inflammation ; dragging in groin to testicle ; lump rising and falling in
iliac and lumbar region ; fulness and dull aching in hypochondrium ; open cancer of mamma ; cancer of lung ; pain in breast and down arms ; ulcer under inferior maxilla ; rheumatic pains in shoulder ; arm greatly swollen ; pain from hip to knee ;
three large ulcers around ankle ; shifting pains in leg and arm.
Left : sharp cutting over eyes < ; laceration of scalp above temple ; stye on lid ; nosebleed left nostril ; formation of diphtheritic membrane in nostril ; side of nose swollen ; inflammation from nostril to right ear ; dragging in testicle to
groin ; sharp pain extending to ovarian region ; fulness in iliac region ; scirrhous tumor of breast ; stony hard nodulated tumor in breast ; cancer of breast ; hard, irregular enlargement of breast ; glands of axilla enlarged and painful ; open cancer
of breast ; pain shooting from chest to shoulder ; ulcer under inferior maxilla ; aching in shoulder ; rheumatic pains in first finger of hand ; outer part of knee aches ; ulcers on legs ; aching in sole of foot ; cancerous ulcer on side of throat.
Shifting pains from right leg to left.

Sensations

As if intoxicated ; tickling like a hair in right nostril ; as if tongue had been burned ; pain on swallowing as from excoriation ; food seems to lie heavy on stomach ; small spot in epigastric tumor as if filled with fluid ; as if a lump of size
of a hen's egg rising and falling on right iliac and lumbar regions ; pains in groins as if he had strained himself ; pain in uterine region felt like wind ; as of a tight band around waist ; as if everything would fall out when standing ; as if knives were thrust
into breast ; as if throat was excoriated.
Pain : in eyes ; over eyeballs ; in right breast and down arms ; in ears ; at pit of stomach ; in large intestines ; in rectum ; in groin ; in back ; in shoulders ; in bowels ; in liver ; on opening eyes ; in left
breast ; from head to shoulders ; from right hip to knee.
Insupportable pains : in epigastric region.
Excruciating pain : in lumbar region.
Intense pain : in head.
Severe pain : in forehead ; in stomach and bowels ; in abdomen after stool ; in rectum and anus ; in uterine region ; in back ; in small of back ; in back part of legs.
Lancinating pain : in breast extending up to shoulder and down arms ; in ulcers.
Cutting pains : from groins into testicles.
Acute, distressing, cutting pains : in stomach.
Sharp cutting : in temples ; in splenic and cecal regions ; in hypogastric region, extending into testicle ; in lower bowels and rectum ; on inside of legs above knees.
Cutting, colicky pains : in abdomen.
Sharp pains : in region of spleen ; around umbilicus ; extending to left ovarian and splenic regions ; in cecal region ; around umbilicus.
Great anguish : about heart.
Shooting pains : from chest to left shoulder ; in ulcers.
Darting pain : in head.
Griping : in abdomen.
Beating pain : in head.
Stinging pains : in rectum and anus ; in ulcers on legs.
Severe burning pain : in rectum.
Pricking pains : in ulcers.
Rheumatic pains : in elbow, forearm, right shoulder and first finger of left hand.
Shifting pains : in right arm and leg, then left leg.
Continual pain : in head.
Tired aching : across small of back ; in limbs.
Aching : in shoulder-blades ; in small of back ; in knees ; in head and shoulders ; in outer part of left knee ; in soles of left foot.
Dull dragging : in groins ; from groin to right then to left testicles across lumbar region.
Dull, aching pains : at stomach ; in right hypogastrium ; in hypogastrium and small of back ; in region of kidneys.
Dull, burning pains : all over body.
Dull, heavy frontal headache.
Dull pain in hypogastrium ; in small of back ; on top of head ; in stomach and bowels ; in navel.
Fulness : over eyes ; of chest ; of stomach ; of right hypogastrium ; in hepatic region ; in left iliac region.
Great sensitiveness : of epigastric region.
Tenderness : of cervical glands ; over hepatic region ; of os uteri ; of abdomen.
Soreness : of cartilaginous septum ; of inner edge of right ala ; of uvula ; of mouth of neck and throat ; of liver ; of nipple ; in chest.
Pricking sensation : in ears.
Burning heat : of skin.
Burning : of eyes and lids ; in nose ; in right nostril ; left nostril ; in stomach ; in bowels ; in region of navel ; in rectum and anus ; in chest ; in ulcers ; on legs.
Heat : in intestines ; of whole body.
Smarting : of eyes ; in posterior nares ; in nostrils ; in throat ; in rectum.
Sharp, raw, excoriated feeling ; in both nares.
Sensation of roughness and stiffness : on swallowing.
Scraping : in larynx.
Rawness : in nares ; in throat and chest ; of left nostril ; of mouth ; of fauces ; of larynx ; in chest.
Tickling : in right nostril.
Tingling : of throat.
Dryness : of upper lids ; of tongue.
Constriction : in hypogastric region.
Stuffed up sensation : in posterior nares.
Heaviness : of upper lids.
Weight : in stomach and epigastrium.
Roaring : in ears.
Stiffness : in muscles of lumbar region.
Numbness : of arm.
Faintness : at stomach ; in hypogastrium.
Goneness : at epigastrium ; in pit of stomach.
Debility : in back and lower limbs.
Weakness : of body and limbs.
Itching : of left nostril ; of face ; of throat ; of foot ; of skin.

Tissues

Great emaciation ; weight reduced 70 pounds ; very moody and depressed in mind ; averse to conversing ; at times so excited as to curse his mother for the least thing, and throwing food or medicine across room ; liver atrophied, not
more than two-thirds the natural size ; kidneys affected, urine scanty and high colored. θ General marasmus.
Small wounds bleed much.
General anasarca ; great difficulty in passing water, which is high colored and deposits a cloudy sediment on standing ; constipation.
Mucous membranes : secretions increased, tenacious, ropy ; erosions.
Catarrhal affections : in patients of a cachectic habit.
Muscles greatly weakened ; atony.
Marasmus ; scrofula ; cancer cachexia.
Cancers : hard, adherent, skin mottled, puckered ; cutting like knives ; in mamma.
In cancer it removes the pain, modifies the discharge, depriving it of its offensiveness, and improves the general health in a marked degree.
In early stage of scirrhus, and chiefly when its situation is in a gland or in the immediate vicinity of a gland.
Stage of degenerative softening in scirrhus.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : causes bleeding of cartilaginous septum which is sore ; epigastric region very tender ; ulcers on legs <.
Pressure : cutting over eyes > ; abdominal walls painful ; liver sensitive ; of hand > head ; clothing feels uncomfortable about groins.

Skin

Skin jaundiced, of a dark greenish-yellow color.
Skin of a dark purplish hue, with heat and tingling, < from motion.
Hot, dry skin, with fever.
Burning heat and itching of skin.
Itching in small-pox.
Yellowish looking vesicles, filled with a limpid fluid.
Hyperidrosis ; excessive sweat of axillæ or about genitals ; offensive.
Obstinate excoriations of skin, intertrigo, in children.
Nettlerash from head to foot, next day face affected and through scratching became much swollen ; lids puffed ; itching, burning and stinging, < at night ; rash resembled scarlatina, both in color and in disappearing a long time on pressure.
Erysipelatoid rash on face, neck, palms, joints of fingers and wrist, with maddening, burning heat, later skin exfoliates ; pains < at night.
Fissures around mucous outlets, as on lips, about anus, or on flexor surfaces, and between fingers and toes of syphilitic subjects, who have used too much mercury or iodide of potash ; debilitated subjects, broken down by excessive use of alcohol.
Margins around anus thickened and fissured, fissures extending into mucous membrane.
Ulcers with indolent granulations ; unhealthy and scanty pus ; scrofulous or cachectic persons.
Chronic ulcers arising from contusions, incised and lacerated wounds, burns, scalds, or some disease of skin.
Ulcers following removal of tumors, pricking pain on motion of part.
Bedsores.
Small-pox ; itching ; tingling of skin ; great redness, swelling and aching of skin ; very sore throat ; intense aching in small of back and legs ; pustules dark ; ulcers in mouth and fauces ; sleeplessness.
Variola, itching tingling of eruption : face swollen ; throat raw ; pustules dark ; great prostration.
Face greatly swollen, eyes closed, nose enormously large and entirely stopped up ; throat very sore ; pustules dark ; almost unconscious, having no hope of recovery. θ Small-pox.
Face covered with a fine rash which subsequently proved to be confluent small-pox ; face greatly swollen, eyes closed ; throat sore.
In small-pox it relieves the irritation almost instantly, removes the swelling, diminishes the odor, obviates secondary fever, prevents pitting to very great degree, and destroys the contagious character of the disease.
Lupus ; lupus exedens and ulcerative stage of leprosy.

Stage of life, constitution

Weakened, debilitated subjects, with mucous discharges.
Cachectic persons, with marked disturbance of gastric and hepatic functions.
Scrofulous diathesis.
Old people.
Child, æt. 1 ; constipation.
Boy, æt. 6, light complexion, light curly hair, had not been vaccinated ; small-pox.
Girl, æt. 8, after a fall ; lacerated wound of scalp.
Little girl, after burn ; ulcer on back of hand.
Girl, æt. 14, as she was about recovering from an attack of diphtheria ; diphtheritic deposit in nose and vagina.
Man, æt. 18, cachectic, consumptive appearance ; scrofulous ulcers on leg.
Woman, æt. 20, brunette, black eyes, delicate features, but strong and energetic, two months pregnant with third child ; constipation and hemorrhoids.
Woman, æt. 21, mother of one child, nervous temperament, blue eyes, light hair, has prolapsus uteri and leucorrhœa of several years standing ; uterine affection.
Unmarried woman, æt. 22 ; cancer of breast.
Man, æt. 22, after measles two and one-half years ago ; marasmus.
Miss ---, æt. 25, a teacher, was given up by the old school ; cancer of stomach.
Married woman, æt. 26, light hair, pale complexion, feeble constitution, tea drinker, has suffered for twelve years ; headache and constipation.
Young unmarried woman, for two years under allopathic treatment ; cancer of breast.
Sanguine young lady, after confinement ; sore mouth.
Unmarried woman ; erysipelas.
Man, suffering from itch, for which corrosive sublimate was used ; salivation.
Man, æt. 28, blue eyes, light hair, unmarried, of dissipated habits, has had three epileptic seizures, has had gonorrhœa three times ; gonorrhœa.
Man, æt. 29, after habitual use of purgatives ; constipation.
Woman, æt. 29, mother of two children, habitually takes castor oil and senna ; constipation.
Colored woman, æt. 30, next day after confinement ; small-pox.
Woman, æt. 32, blue eyes, light hair, delicate skin, mother of two children, has used tea and coffee for fifteen years ; suffering for three years ; hemorrhoids.
Man, æt. 32, mason, three years ago fell from a scaffold and injured right arm ; ulceration of arm.
Man, æt. 35, mill operator, habits moderately temperate ; ulcers on leg.
Mrs. J., æt. 37, laundress, health good ; tumor in left breast.
Woman, æt. 38, bilious temperament, dark hair, suffering eight years, has taken much purgative medicine ; constipation.
Man, æt. 40 ; jaundice.
Man, æt. 40, railroad engineer ; small-pox.
Woman, æt. 45 ; cancerous tumor.
Man, æt. 46, during Crimean campaign was attacked with rheumatic fever, consequent upon exposure ; anasarca and constipation.
Woman, æt. 50, has suffered many years ; cancer (improved).
Woman, single, æt. 52, of phthisical family, ill fourteen years, but always delicate ; dyspepsia.
Mrs. D., æt. 55, suffering two years ; tumor on foot.
Woman, æt. 60, widow, seven children, previously stout and healthy, after getting wet one year ago, affection of liver for which she was leeched, blistered and salivated, since which she has not been well ; subacute inflammation of liver.
Woman, æt. 70 ; sore leg.
Man, æt. 70 ; epigastric tumor.

Relations

Antidoted by : Sulphur (head symptoms and sciatic pains).
It antidotes : Mercur . and chlorate of potash .
Compare : Am. mur., Ant. crud., Kali bich., Pulsat . (action on mucous membranes) ; Aloes., Collin., Sepia, Sulphur (action on lower bowels) ; Berber., Digit., Gelsem .
(gastro-duodenal catarrh involving bile ducts) ; Nux vom . (gastric catarrh of alcoholism) ; Am. mur., Graphit., Nux vom . (constipation) ; Ant. crud . (indigestion) ;
Kali bich . (otorrhœa) ; Arsen., Merc. corr., Euphras . (ophthalmia) ; Arg. nitr., Kali bich . (nasal catarrh) ; Hepar (syphilitic
ozæna after abuse of mercury or iodide of potash) ; Aloes, Sulphur (cough with abdominal congestion) ; Arsen., Aurum mur., Hydrocotyle, Kali bich . (lupus) ; Ant. tart., Baptis,
Thuja (variola) ; Thuja (epithelioma) ; Arsen., Baptis., Conium, Condur., Kreos., Phytol., Trifol. prat . (cancer of mammary glands) ; Cinchon .
(intermittents) ; Strychnia (action on spinal cord).

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

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

Lecture

Hydrastis is a slow, deep acting remedy, required in many trophic disturbances. where there is emaciation, catarrhal conditions and ulceration, even malignant ulceration. Defective assimilation.

When it is noticed that the stomach is the center of most of the symptom complex. The desires and aversions often give the key to a very complex totality of symptoms. In this remedy the sinking empty hunger with loathing of food is striking, strange, rare, and therefore Peculiar. It is characteristic because it is a general of the remedy, and is predicated of the patient. Great weakness prevails at all times.

Catarrhal symptoms with thick, viscid, ropy, yellow mucus, sometimes white, from any mucous membrane, with or without ulceration. Deep eating spreading ulcers upon the skin or mucous membrane, with thick, viscid, yellow pus. Induration in glands, in base of ulcers. False granulations that bleed much and easily, on the slightest touch.

This remedy has been very useful in the treatment of malignant ulcers. In such ulcers it is often a great comfort to the patient, even when it does not cure, as it removes the offensiveness, modifies the pain and restrains the destructiveness.

The burning so commonly found in such ulcers is a strong symptom of Hydrastis. When the weakness and emaciation have progressed together for months and years in chronic stomach disease, fainting comes on, and this is also found in Hydrastis. In chronic cases, when the tissues have suffered and not the mind.

The astonishing absence of mental symptoms except the general discouragement incidental to long suffering and weakness is striking. If it were carefully proved, most likely the mental loves and hates would come out. The symptoms are better during rest. Small wounds bleed and suppurate.

The headaches are only such as generally belong to stomach disorders, and prolonged nasal catarrh. They are not distinctive. It has cured eczema with thick crusts.

The eyes and face jaundiced. Ulceration of the cornea. Thick, yellow, viscid, mucous discharge. Chronic inflammation of lids. Inflammation, thickening, redness of margins of lids.

Otorrhoea with thick, viscid, purulent discharge. Copious mucous discharge. Catarrh of the Eustachian tubes with many noises in ears. Ears red, swollen, covered with scales; fissured behind where connected with head.

The nose is obstructed with stringy, yellow or white mucus. The air feels cold in the nose, and the membrane is raw and ulcerated. Ropy mucus is drawn from posterior nares into the throat. Rawness in both nares with constant urging to blow the nose. Coryza with discharge, scanty in room and profuse in open air. Bloody, purulent discharge from nose. Thick, white, or yellow mucous discharge. Large crusts constantly form in the nose.

The face is sickly, shrunken, pale, waxy, cachectic, jaundiced. It is of great service in epithelioma of face, nose or lip.

The tongue is yellow, large, flabby and spongy. Feels as if burnt. Ulceration of mouth, gums, tongue; spreading and burning. Aphthae in children and nursing mothers. Excessive secretions of ropy mucus; golden yellow. Excoriation of mouth. In old mercurial cases.

Catarrhal sore throat of long standing, granulated and ulcerated excoriated and burning. Thick, viscid, yellow mucus that can be drawn out in ropes.

No appetite; no thirst; loathing of food. Nearly all foods disorder the stomach. Spitting up the food by the mouthful (like Phos. and Ferr .). Vomits all food. Retains only water and milk. Eructations, sour, putrid, of food eaten.

Empty, faint feeling in stomach with loathing of food and obstinate constipation with no desire for stool, is a combination that must generally have Hydrastis. Pulsation in the stomach. Ulceration of the stomach with burning. For suspicious lump in region of pylorus. Weight in stomach after eating. The stomach seems to be only an ordinary sack; digestion is slow, and tedious. Fullness after eating, lasting a long time. The empty, sinking feeling is not ameliorated after eating. Sour vomiting. Chronic gastric catarrh. Slow digestion.

This must be a useful liver remedy, for the following reasons: The skin is jaundiced; the stool is light, even white, showing the absence of bile, and there is distress in the region of the liver. In chronic derangement of the liver. Liver enlarged, hard and nodular.

Cramping pains. Colic, Flatulence and distended abdomen. It has cured many of the usual conditions that generally attend bad digestion and torpid liver. Intestinal catarrh and ulceration. Sharp pain in region of spleen.

It has cured obstinate piles, ulceration and fissures of anus. Relaxation and prolapsus of anus. Chronic diarrhoea with yellow, thin faeces, even watery. Inflammation of anus. Stools, bileless, white, soft, acrid, greenish, much viscid mucus. Hard, nodular stools. Most obstinate constipation; no desire for stool for days.

Paresis of the rectum. It cures constipation, when the stomach symptoms agree. In old cases when enemas no longer act, when the faeces remain high up, or do not come down into rectum to excite desire, this remedy has been of great service. In constipation or diarrhoea with "goneness" in stomach, trembling in the abdomen and palpitation.

Urine scanty or suppressed. Chronic catarrh of bladder with much viscid mucus in urine, causing difficulty in flow of urine.

Catarrh of the urethra. Chronic gonorrhoea when the discharge remains yellow in spite of time. Copious, painless discharge. Relaxed scrotum and testes. Offensive sweat of genitals.

Thick, yellow, viscid leucorrhoea, sometimes white, sometimes offensive. Excoriation of vagina. Soreness in vagina during coition. Bleeding after coition. Uterine haemorrhage. Menses copious. Relaxed, dragging feeling in pelvis. Intense itching of vulva. Epithelioma of mamma.

Most obstinate catarrh of larynx, trachea and bronchial tubes, with copious, thick, ropy mucus and ulceration. Rawness in air passages. Catarrh of chest in old people.

The cough, is dry, hard; from tickling in larynx. Rawness in chest. Rattling cough. Thick, yellow, viscid, sometimes white, expectoration in old people, or when very chronic.

Palpitation from slowly progressing weakness. Weakness and stiffness in back in lumbar region, must walk about before he can straighten up the back. Must use the arms to rise from a seat.

Rheumatic pains in upper limbs. Weakness and rheumatic pains in lower limbs. Ulcers on legs and about ankles, with stinging, burning pains; high, hard edges; painful at night in warm bed; sensitive to touch. Oedema of feet.

Warmth and washing aggravate ulcers and eruptions. The skin, excoriates easily. Urticaria over body, aggravated at night. Fissures about mouth and anus.

The Therapeutics of Fevers

H. C. Allen · The Therapeutics of Fevers · 1902 Library of Congress printing (Allen d. 1909; public domain)

General

For debilitated persons, with viscid mucous discharges.

Cachectic or malignant dyscrasia, with marked derangement of gastric and hepatic functions; broken down by excessive use of alcohol.

Cancer: hard, adherent; skin mottled, puckered; pains knife-like, sharp cutting; nipple retracted.

Nursing sore mouth; tongue large, shows imprint of teeth.

Leucorrhœa: ropy, thick, viscid, yellow; hanging from os in long strings (Bov., Kali bi.); pruritus.

Profuse discharge of thick, yellow, stringy mucus from nasal passages (Cor. r.).

Hawks yellow, viscid mucus from posterior nares and fauces; ulceration, after mercury or chlorate of potash; syphilitic angina.

Type

Intermittent, tertian, quotidian; bilious, typhoid, yellow.

Time

11 A. M.; 10 P. M. fever without chill.

Cause

Often depends upon organic disease.

Chill

Morning or evening; in back or thighs with aching; around shoulders and chest; pulse slow.

Heat

In flushes, over face, neck, hand. Great heat of whole body followed by great debility.

Sweat

Profuse, offensive of genitals (Petr.).

Tongue

Large, flabby, thickly coated white, shows imprint of teeth.

Apyrexia

Cachectic; gastric or hepatic symptoms with jaundice, and bilious disturbances; bad effects of Mercury or Quinine.

For days before an attack sensation of entire goneness at epigastrium, with loss of appetite.

Vertex headaches in paroxysms every other day at 11 A. M. with excessive nausea, anguish and retching.

Typhoid; atony, torpor and retarded convalescence; insomnia, copious sweats, debility.