Iris Versicolor iris.

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

GLANDS: DIGESTIVE TRACT. LIVER. Pancreas. Right side. Nerves.

Worse

Periodically: Weekly. 2-3 A.M. Spring and fall. After midnight. Mental exhaustion. Hot weather.

Better

Gentle motion.

General

Affections accompanied by rapid elimination. Sour, acrid, BURNING excretions. Oily nose, greasy taste and fatty stool.

Particulars

Headache, with diarrhœa. Mouth feels greasy, burnt or scalded. Tongue feels cold. Sweet taste. Profuse ropy saliva. Sour-bitter belching (Nux-v.). Continuous nausea, bitter, acrid vomiting, urging to stool and profuse urine, with periodic visual disturbances, blindness, hemiopia, etc., accompany ophthalmic migraine (r); involving teeth. BILIOUS, WATERY, SOUR OR ACRID VOMITUS, WITH BURNING. Burning; < along whole digestive tract; not > by cold drinks. Sore over liver. BILIOUS, ACRID, WATERY STOOLS; BURN LIKE FIRE. Painless cholera morbus. Diabetes. Goitre. Zoster (r). The hip feels wrenched out. Shooting laming pains along limb. Sciatica (l).

Related

Related: Ars. Merc. Pho.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

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General

Very sick headaches, with vomiting of a sweetish substance; in some fevers where there is great stomach derangement and great prostration.

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

Sick headache, resulting from gastrohepatic derangement; dull, heavy, or throbbing headache, with vomiting of food and bile. Mouth and tongue feel as though they had been scalded.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Blue Flag

General

Thyroid, pancreas, salivary, intestinal glands, and gastro-intestinal mucous membrane, are especially affected. Increases the flow of bile. Sick headaches and cholera morbus are a special therapeutic field for its action.

Head

Frontal headache, with nausea. Scalp feels constricted. Right temples especially affected. Sick headache, worse rest; begins with a blur before eyes, after relaxing from a mental strain. Pustular eruption on scalp.

Ears

Roaring, buzzing, ringing in ears, with deafness. Aural vertigo, with intense noises in ears.

Face

Neuralgia after breakfast, beginning in infra-orbital nerve, and involving whole face.

Throat

Mouth and tongue feel scalded. Heat and smarting in throat. Burning. Profuse flow of saliva; ropy. Goitre.

Stomach

Burning of whole alimentary canal. Vomiting, sour bloody, biliary. Nausea. Profuse flow of saliva (Merc; Ipec; Kali iod). Deficient appetite.

Abdomen

Liver sore. Cutting pain. Flatulent colic. Diarrhœa; stools watery, with burning at anus and through intestinal canal. Periodical night diarrhœa, with pain and green discharges. Constipation (give 30th)

Extremities

Shifting pains. Sciatica, as if left hip-joint were wrenched. Pain extends to popliteal space. Gonorrhœal rheumatism (use Irisin).

Skin

Herpes zoster, associated with gastric derangements. Pustular eruptions. Psoriasis; irregular patches with shining scales. Eczema, with nightly itching.

Modalities

Worse, in evening and at night, from rest. Better, from continued motion.

Relationship

Antidote: Nux.

Compare: Iris florentina-Orris-root--(delirium, convulsions, and paralysis); Iris factissima (headache and hernia); Iris germanica-Blue Garden Iris--(dropsy and freckles); Iris tenax-I. minor--(dry mouth; deathly sensation at point of stomach, pain in ileo-cæcal region; appendicitis. Pain from adhesions after). Pancreatinum-a combination of several enzymes--(Indicated in intestinal indigestion; pain an hour or more after eating. Lienteric diarrhœa. Dose.--3-5 grains, better not given during the active period of stomachic digestion). Pepsinum--(Imperfect digestion with pain in gastric region. Marasmus of children who are fed on artificial foods. Diarrhœa due to indigestion. Dose.--3-4 grains) (Diseases of pancreas, gout, diabetes); Ipec; Podoph; Sanguin; Ars; Ant cr.

Dose

Tincture to thirtieth potency. Favorable reports from the very highest potencies.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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Leaders

Burning of mouth, tongue, throat, clear down into stomach, and of anus if there is diarrhœa.

Vomiting of stringy, glairy, ropy mucus; hangs in strings down to receptacle on the floor.

Gastric or hepatic sick headaches with blur before the eyes at the beginning. Vomiting sour, or bitter.

Iris is another remedy which causes great nausea and vomiting. It is sometimes very serviceable in cholera infantum. The substance vomited is generally very sour, so sour that it excoriates the throat.

The gastric troubles of this remedy are often accompanied with a burning of tongue, throat, œsophagus and stomach, and, if diarrhœa is present, with burning of the anus. This burning of the alimentary canal is very characteristic of this drug.

The vomiting is not always sour, but may be bitter or sweetish There is also profuse flow of saliva. I once had a case of stomach trouble in a middle-aged lady. She had frequent attacks of vomiting of a stringy, glairy mucus which was very ruby, would hang in strings from her mouth to the receptacle on the floor. Then the substance vomited became dark-colored; like coffee grounds. She became very weak, vomited all nourishment. She also had profuse secretion of ropy saliva. Thinking she had cancer of the stomach, she made her will and set her house in order, to die. Kali bichromicum was given with no benefit whatever, but Iris cured her completely in a short time and she remains well ten years since.

Iris is also one of our best remedies for sick headache. These headaches seem to be of gastric or hepatic origin, and often begin with a blur before the eyes. I used to give the remedy in the 3d.; but of late years have given it in the 50m. and am better pleased with the result, because it is more prompt and lasting. It is recommended in sciatica, but I have had no experience with it in this affection It seems to act most powerfully upon the alimentary tract. I have never used it in skin troubles.

Text Book of Materia Medica

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Mind and Disposition

Low-spirited ; discouraged. Fear of an approaching illness.

Head

Fulness in and heaviness of the head. Head and face are cold. Headache (temples and eyes), with distressing vomiting (of a sweetish mucus, occasionally with a trace of bile). Sensation of constriction around the forehead (when trying to cough). Stitches in the lower part (right side) of the cerebellum.

Eyes

Redness of the conjunctiva. Inflammation of the eyelids.

Mouth and Throat

Toothache in the warm room. The tongue and gums feel as if covered by a greasy substance (in the morning on rising). Dry, cracked lips. Roughness in the throat. Burning in the mouth and fauces. Increased flow of saliva.

Stomach and Abdomen

Bitter, putrid taste. Nausea and empty eructations. Nausea and vomiting of a watery and very acid substance. Vomiting of food, sour ; bilious. Pain in the stomach before breakfast and from drinking water. Pain in the region of the liver ; worse from motion. Colic relieved by bending forward ; relieved by discharge of flatulence. Cutting pain in the lower part of the abdomen. Fetid flatulence.

Stool and Anus

Diarrhœa, with colic and rumbling in the bowels.

Urinary Organs

Cutting and pricking in the urethra while urinating.

Genital Organs

Coldness and itching of the genitals.

Extremities

Acute rheumatic pain in the right shoulder ; worse from motion, especially on raising the arm. Pain in the fingers on writing.

Sleep

Great sleeplessness. Starts up in his sleep.

Generalities

Great debility. Gastric symptoms predominate (with headache).

Fever

Pulse accelerated. Chilliness during the whole night. Heat over the whole body, follower by chilliness, with cold hands and feet. Perspiration over the whole body, but principally in the hypochondria.

Skin

Small blood-boils, face, hands and back.

Conditions

Most symptoms appear in the evening and at night. The right side is ; principally affected. Aggravation of the pains by motion.

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

Iris hexagona. Blue flag. N. O. Iridaceæ. Tincture of fresh root collected in early spring or autumn. Trituration of the resinoid, Iridin or Irisin.

Clinical

Anus, fissure of. Bilious attack. Constipation . Crusta lactea. Diabetes (pancreatic). Diarrhœa . Dysentery. Dysmenorrhœa. Dyspepsia. Eczema. Fistula. Gastrodynia, intermittent. Headache . Impetigo. Liver, affections of . Migraine. Neuralgia. Nocturnal emissions. Pancreas, affections of. Parotid glands, affections of. Pregnancy, morning sickness of. Psoriasis. Rectum, burning in. Rheumatism. Salivation. Sciatica. Vomiting . Whitlow. Zoster.

Characteristics

The Blue Flag is in great repute as a remedy among the Indians of North America. It was introduced into homœopathic practice by Kitchen, of Philadelphia, by whom it was proved, as well as by that heroic prover, Burt, and others, of all of whose experiences Hale gives an excellent account. I will relate one of Burt's experiments. "May 18th. ─ Took forty grains of the green root; fifteen minutes after, profuse flow of saliva and tears; mouth and stomach feel on fire; almost impossible to breathe, it is so acrid; one half-hour of great pain and distress in the stomach; it is awful to bear; continues all the afternoon and evening; it is not a sharp pain but an awful burning distress; appears to be deep in the region of the pancreas; cold water does not touch it; profuse flow of saliva all day; constant eructations of tasteless gas; very restless all night with bad dreams. May 19th. ─ Awoke at 4 a.m. with great rumbling and distress in the umbilical and hypogastric regions, with great desire for stool followed immediately by a copious, thin, watery stool, which could not be retained a moment without much pain; mouth feels as if it had been scalded, tongue thick and rough. 8 a.m. ─ Another thin, watery stool, with great rumbling in bowels; no appetite, loss of taste." Dr. Burt took more of the drug and developed a repetition of these symptoms and many others, including toothache, an eruption of pimples on the top of the head; inflammation of the glans penis; amorous dreams and seminal emissions (to which he was not accustomed). Vomiting of a watery, extremely sour fluid, excoriating the throat, was prominent in some provings. The sourness may be so great that not only the vomit but the whole person smells sour. "Everything in the stomach turns to vinegar; similarly in threatened rheumatic fever the sweat smells strongly of vinegar" (Cooper). Sometimes the vomit was not sour but bitter or sweetish. The action on the salivary gland., and pancreas was very marked, and Iris has proved an excellent remedy in affections of these organs. Nash relates the case of a middle-aged lady who had frequent attacks of vomiting of ropy mucus hanging from mouth to receptacle on the floor. Then the substance vomited became dark-coloured like coffee grounds. She became very weak and vomited all nourishment. There was also profuse secretion of ropy saliva. The patient believed she had cancer of the stomach and made her will. Kali bi . gave no relief. Iris cured in a short time and permanently. Kitchen found Iris the most effective all-round remedy in cases of vomiting of all kinds. He relates this case: A girl, æt. 9, had periodic spells of vomiting every month, six weeks, or sometimes four months. The attack would last three days. It began with vomiting of ingesta, then sour fluid, lastly bile, yellow and green, with great heat of head. Some general fever, and great prostration. Warm perspiration from efforts of straining. A single dose of Iris would arrest the attack at once, all other remedies having failed. This action of Iris on the intestinal tract and liver together with another characteristic action of the drug, on the nerves, renders it a great remedy in bilious sick-headaches. Here again it resembles Kali bichr ., for the headache of Iris is associated with a blur before the eyes. Hemicrania begins with a blurring of sight; paroxysms attended with sour watery vomiting; pain involving supraorbital and dental nerves; with stupid or stunning headache. A dull soreness is left where the neuralgia had been. L. L. Helt relates a typical case ( Med. Adv ., xxii. 395). The patient, a lady, said: "The way I know an attack is coming on is, I feel so tired and drowsy that I can go to sleep at any time or place, and my sight becomes dim , but not one bit of pain yet." After this stage has lasted from twelve to twenty-four hours, vomiting begins, always from 3 to 4 a.m. The vomiting stage continues about twelve hours, followed by a most excruciating headache, or by severe pain and great distress in stomach and abdomen. If one is present the other is absent. At the end of the third day she is able to sit up a little. The periods of recurrence are very irregular. Iris v . 3x given on the approach of an attack warded it off on three occasions, and then the attacks ceased to recur. Med. Visitor , xiii. 1, reports a discussion on Ir. v ., in the course of which C. C. Conant said he had repeatedly verified "right-side headache, beginning with a blur and very severe in front of head." E. H. Linnell cured a sick-headache of two years' standing invariably produced by eating anything sweet. Baruch ( H. W ., xxxiii. 478) has cured with Ir. v . 2x a case of diabetes having (in addition to the glycosuria) right-side supraorbital pains, low spirits, dull mental faculties, anorexia, urine pale and copious, pain in pancreas. In pancreatic diabetes Ir. v . should have a very important place. Ir. v . is no less effective in pure neuralgias, either facial or sciatic. I have cured with it left-side sciatica following influenza. The generality of affections appear on the right side. Pains are erratic; shoot from right to left. The irritating, excoriating, and inflaming properties of Iris are seen in the affections of the skin. It has cured cases of herpes zoster (right side), eczema capitis, impetigo figurata, and psoriasis. There is well-marked periodicity in the Iris affections, headaches, colic; diarrhœa and dysentery, recurring every spring and autumn; diarrhœa and colic 2 or 3 a.m.; morning sickness; attacks at short intervals. Symptoms set in suddenly. The headaches are < by rest, > by moderate motion, < by violent motion. Bending forward > colic. Motion < abdominal and sciatic pains. Toothache is < in warm room. Open air > headache; cold air < headache and nausea. The concomitance of gastric symptoms gives the key to many of the cases which call for Iris ; and it should not be forgotten that constipation as well as diarrhœa may be a strong indication.

Relations

Antidoted by: Nux v. Antidote to: Merc., Nux v., Phytol. Compare: Ipec. (nausea and vomiting of pregnancy with tenderness over stomach, profuse salivation. Iris has thick, ropy saliva; Ipec. saliva is thin, must be constantly swallowed); Sang. (periodic sick-headache); Kali bich. (sick-headache beginning with a blur ─ with Kali bi. the blur precedes the pain and passes off as the pain comes on -thick, ropy saliva and vomit; sciatica); Ver. (diarrhœa and summer complaints; Ver. has collapse, coldness, cold sweat. Iris more inflammatory symptoms, excoriation about anus); Puls. (nightly diarrhœa -Puls. more before midnight; Iris 2-3 a.m.); Chi. (summer diarrhœa); Sep. (sick-headache); Epipheg. (sick-headache, ropy saliva); Ant. c., Ant. t., Ars., Colch., Eupat. perf., juglans c., Lept. In burning in throat, Caps. (Caps. has < by cold Water; Ir. v. is temporarily > by drinking cold water).

Mind

Low-spirited; discouraged; vexed; despondent. ─ Great depression with headache. ─ Fear of an approaching illness. ─ Cannot fix mind on studies.

Head

Fulness in and heaviness of the head. ─ Head and face are cold. ─ Headache (temples and eyes), with distressing vomiting (of a sweetish mucus, occasionally with a trace of bile). ─ (Sick headache invariably induced by eating anything sweet.). ─ Sensation of constriction around the forehead (when trying to cough). ─ Dull throbbing or shooting in r. side of forehead, with nausea; < toward evening; from cold air or coughing; > from moderate motion. ─ Dull, heavy frontal headache, with nausea, with dulness of eyes and pain over l. superciliary ridge. ─ During headache, nausea and profuse salivation. ─ Recurrent sick headaches with constipation. ─ Aching in forehead and vertex as if the top of the head would come off. ─ Shooting in the temples, mostly r., with constrictive feeling of the scalp. ─ Stitches in the lower part (r. side) of the cerebellum. ─ Pustular eruption on the scalp.

Eyes

Redness of conjunctiva. ─ Burning in internal canthus (r.) with lachrymation. ─ Inflammation of eyelids, apparently from cold. ─ Eyes sunken Violent pains in both supraorbital regions, but in only one at a time.

Nose

Constant sneezing.

Face

Wakes with neuralgia, r. side of face, darting stitches in two carious teeth. ─ Neuralgia, involving supra- and infra-orbital, superior maxillary and inferior nerves; begins after breakfast every morning, with a stupid, stunning headache, and lasts several hours. ─ Pustular eruptions on the face, around nose, lips, and cheeks, secreting a sanious, irritating matter.

Teeth

Toothache in the warm room.

Mouth

Food tastes flat or acid. ─ Taste at first sweetish or insipid; later violent burning. ─ Dry mouth in the morning, in bed. ─ Mouth dry and clammy. ─ Mouth and stomach feel on fire; almost impossible to breathe, it is so acrid. ─ Mouth and tongue feel as if they had been scalded. ─ Profuse flow of saliva; ropy, drops when talking. ─ Raw pain in l. side of tongue. ─ The tongue and gums feel as if covered by a greasy substance in the morning on rising. ─ Dry, cracked lips.

Throat

Sore throat, with constriction of pharynx and difficult deglutition. ─ Pains in tonsils shooting into ears. ─ Sometimes burning sensation, with feeling of enlargement like a burning cavern, while throat is dry, injected and of a bright red colour. ─ A peculiar irritability of throat sometimes attended with cough. ─ Spasms of pharynx while swallowing food. ─ Burning from fauces to stomach, > inspiring cool air, < exposure. ─ Feeling as if a horsehair were drawn tightly across l. palate with burning and smarting. ─ Cold water > burning short time only.

Appetite

Loss of appetite. ─ Bitter, putrid taste. ─ Nausea and empty eructations.

Stomach

Eructations of tasteless gas; frequently empty. ─ Nausea and vomiting of a watery and very acid substance. ─ Contents of stomach "turn to vinegar.". ─ Vomiting: of food; sour; bilious; of sweetish water; of sour milk in children. ─ Pain in stomach before breakfast and from drinking water. ─ Great burning distress in epigastrium; mouth and stomach feel on fire. ─ Cancer of pylorus with sour vomiting and great prostration (Cooper).

Abdomen

Pain in the region of the liver; < from motion. ─ Awful burning distress, deep in region of pancreas, not > by cold water. ─ Colic > by bending forward; > by discharge of flatulence. ─ Cutting pain in the lower part of abdomen. ─ Fetid flatulence. ─ Sharp griping pains in the bowels. ─ Pain in abdomen > by discharge of flatus.

Stool and Anus

Diarrhœa, with colic and rumbling in the bowels. ─ Stool: thin, watery; soft yellow, with rumbling, but no pain; mushy, painless; blood and mucus with straining. ─ Frequent watery stools with burning in anus; disposition to strain and bear down. ─ [Dysentery with choleraic depression. ─ Dark bilious discharges, low febrile state and much emaciation. ─ Chronic diarrhœa with pain in lower abdomen, followed by burning in rectum (A. E. Smith)]. ─ Great burning in anus, as if on fire, after stool. ─ Anus sore in morning, as if points were sticking into it. ─ Distress in anus as if prolapsed. ─ Constipation: succeeded by thin, watery diarrhœa; with flatulent colic; with migraine; with irregular menses; with hæmorrhoids.

Urinary Organs

Pain in r. kidney. ─ Cutting and pricking in the urethra while urinating with coldness and itching of genitals. ─ (Urine of high specific gravity containing sugar.). ─ Urine voided in large quantities. ─ Urine of disagreeable odour. ─ Urine thick, of strong odour, deep colour. ─ Urine passes without force.

Male Sexual Organs

Coldness and itching of the genitals. ─ Emission with amorous dreams. ─ Inflammation of glans, which is much swollen and red.

Female Sexual Organs

Neuralgia and rheumatism of uterus. ─ Menses regular but excessive. ─ Leucorrhœa. ─ Morning sickness of pregnancy, vomit sour or bitter; protracted nausea; profuse ropy saliva: tenderness over stomach. ─ Inflammation and soreness of uterus, very sensitive to touch; pain across umbilicus, griping at intervals, nausea and vomiting of green or yellow bile, eructations of much flatus between the vomitings; yellow bilious diarrhœa. (Miscarriage.)

Chest

Rheumatism in muscles of chest along with acid indigestion (Cooper).

Upper Limbs

Acute rheumatic pain in r. shoulder; < from motion, esp. on raising arm. ─ Severe shooting pains about the phalangeal and metacarpo-phalangeal articulations. ─ Pain in the fingers on writing. ─ (Will abort felon).

Lower Limbs

Sciatica; painful drawing and lameness, as if l. hip were wrenched, extending to popliteal space. ─ Sudden shooting pains in l. sciatic nerve, causing lameness < on motion. ─ Moderate motion < exceedingly, violent motion does not affect. ─ Coxalgia in l. hip.

Generalities

Great debility. ─ Nervous debility, more tired in morning than evening, head and eyes heavy, chilly, stomach sour with fulness, aches all over and feels rheumatic, < on awaking, cannot keep to work, stools dark brownish green (cured with Ø, man, 55. ─ Cooper). ─ Gastric symptoms predominate (with headache).

Skin

Pustular eruptions (impetigo), esp. on scalp and face. ─ Tinea capitis. ─ Herpes zoster (r.). ─ Psoriasis; eczema, with gastric derangements. ─ Impetigo figurata. ─ Porrigo.

Sleep

Great sleeplessness. ─ Starts up in his sleep. ─ Amorous dreams with seminal emissions.

Fever

Pulse accelerated. ─ Chilliness during the whole night. ─ Heat over the whole body, followed by chilliness, with cold hands and feet. ─ Perspiration over the whole body, but principally in the hypochondria (and in the groin). ─ (Bilious and typhoid fevers.) Sweat smells of vinegar (Cooper.)

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

Mind

Low spirited ; discouraged.
Fears approaching illness.
Easily vexed.
Dulness of mental faculties ; cannot fix mind on studies.
Muttering.

Sensorium

Head full, heavy.

Inner head

Constriction around forehead.
Sensation as of a band around head.
Dull, heavy frontal headache with nausea.
Severe frontal headache, constant nausea and occasional vomiting ; sleepless from pain ; no appetite ; great weakness.
Headache in forehead and eyes, < right side ; with distressing nausea and vomiting of intensely sour or bilious matter ; < in rest.
Dull throbbing or shooting in right side of forehead ; nausea ; < toward evening, from rest, from cold air, or coughing ; > from moderate motion.
Habitual headache ; violent throbbing on either side of frontal protuberance, < in evening or after exertion.
Chronic frontal headache ; < sitting down, studying or sewing ; > standing up or working ; could not attend school.
Headache with violent pains over eye, in supraorbital region, on either side, but only on one side at a time.
Severe pain in head, through temples and over eyes, with vertigo, nausea and vomiting.
Shooting pains in temples, generally right, with constricted feeling in scalp.
Headache affecting right side, < at rest, > by constant motion, accompanied by nausea, vomiting and low spirits.
Hemicrania of right hemisphere.
Pain shoots like an electric shock from right temple to left side of occiput ; depression of spirits, debility.
Slight dull pain at situation of posterior fontanelle.
Severe pain in occiput, < right side.
Stitches in lower cerebellum, right side.
Violent, stunning headache, with facial neuralgia, followed by copious, limpid urine and vomiting.
Sick headache, every eighth day.
Sick headache, of gastric or hepatic origin, always beginning with a blur before eyes.
Sick headache, seemingly the result of intense gastric and abdominal disturbance ; dull, throbbing, or hammering, and also shooting or acute boring pains in one side of forehead, generally left, or passing from right to left, with nausea ; pain
begins in morning and grows more violent towards afternoon and night ; < from violent motion ; > from moderate exercise in open air ; sometimes paroxysmal, through day, or at intervals of many days, so as to become periodical ; < in cold air and from coughing.
Headache, vomits sweetish mucus, occasionally with a trace of bile.
Sick headache in bilious subjects, with gastric derangement and dyspepsia, tenderness in region of stomach and liver.
Headache reflex from acid stomach, or irritation of that organ from acid secretions.
Neuralgia, facial or cephalic, with nausea and vomiting.
Neuralgia of head, eyes and temples ; pains cutting, of short duration, with acid vomiting ; bilious vomiting, or vomiting of sweetish water ; great despondency.
Tired headache, from mental exhaustion.
Chronic headaches with asthenopia and fulness in stomach.
Sharp, cutting pains of short duration, changing often.

Outer head

Shooting in temples, mostly right, with constrictive feeling of scalp.
Pustular eruptions on scalp in children.
Twenty-six pustules on top of head, some as large as a three cent piece.
Whole top of head one complete scab, yellow matter oozing from under crust, which has matted hair together ; l. ear covered with eruption, it also gathers every two weeks and discharges a yellow greenish pus ; numerous yellow pustules scattered over scalp, each pustule
containing a hair. θ Tinea capitis.

Sight and eyes

Redness of conjunctiva, as from a cold ; eyes feel dull, with neuralgia ; burning in internal canthus, with effusion of tears.
Inflamed eyelids ; simple palpebral inflammation, apparently arising from cold.
Chronic inflammation of eyelids.

Smell and nose

Constant sneezing ; sharp pains in centre of temples ; tickling cough ; light, mushy stools.

Upper face

Sunken eyes with blue circles.
Neuralgia, involving supra and infraorbital, superior maxillary and inferior dental nerves ; begins after breakfast every morning, with a stupid, stunning headache ; copious urine ; disposition to stool ; burning at anus.
Neuralgia in head, temples and eyes, attended with most distressing vomiting of sweetish mucus, and occasionally when much straining, with a trace of bile.
Waked with neuralgic pains in right side of face ; darting stitches in two carious teeth ; infraorbital nerves especially affected.

Lower face

Dry, cracked lips.
Pustular eruptions on face, around nose, lips and cheeks ; secreting a sanious, irritating matter.

Teeth and gums

Toothache in warm room ; dental neuralgia.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste : lost ; flat ; bitter or putrid.
Tongue feels as if scalded ; greasy feeling on arising in morning.
Tongue white.

Inner mouth

Burning in mouth and fauces, as if on fire.
Mouth and tongue feel as though they had been scalded.
Salivation after diphtheria, with swelling of parotids.
Profuse flow of saliva.
Constant discharge of ropy saliva, dropped from mouth during conversation.
Salivation, first of tough mucus hawked from throat, which presented a dark appearance, and afterwards a profuse, watery discharge from whole buccal cavity ; clammy, greasy sensation in mouth, with bilious coating on root of tongue ; lethargy ; hunger, with inability to
eat ; general "bilious" condition ; constipation, succeeding a profuse, watery, offensive pancreatic diarrhœa.
Salivation with profuse flow ; gums and tongue feel as though covered with a greasy substance.
Stomatitis, with painful burning in mouth and fauces.
Ulcers on mucous membrane of cheeks.

Palate and throat

Pain in tonsils, shooting into ears.
Smarting, burning sensation, with feeling of enlargement, like a burning cavern, while throat is dry injected, and of bright red color.
Peculiar irritability of throat, palate and pharynx, coming on without any appearance of inflammation, and sometimes attended with cough.
Spasms of pharynx while swallowing food.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Loss of taste and appetite, nausea and empty eructations.

Eating and drinking

Headache after breakfast ; aching in stomach before breakfast and after a cold drink.
Chronic indigestion of milk ; it sours and is vomited.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Eructations : of tasteless gas ; of wind from stomach with considerable force ; tasteless ; acid of sour food.
Heartburn.
Nausea : from riding, from overexertion or from irregularities of diet ; and retching.
Nausea and vomiting : of sour food, whole person smells sour ; of thin, watery fluid of an exceedingly sour taste.
Vomiting : an extremely sour fluid which excoriates throat ; with burning in mouth, fauces, œsophagus and stomach ; of sweetish water ; of ingesta ; of soured milk in children ; of food an hour after eating ; of bile, with
great heat and sweat.
Bilious vomiting, with great heat of head and perspiration.
Violent pain with every fit of vomiting.
Periodical vomiting spells, coming on once every month or six weeks, lasting two or three days.
Vomiting of ingesta, then sour fluid, and at last bile yellow and green, with great heat of head, some general fever, and great prostration ; perspiration warm, caused by efforts of straining and vomiting.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Great burning distress in epigastrium ; can hardly endure it.
Violent pains in epigastric region, coming on at intervals.
Gastralgia.
Pain in stomach before breakfast, and from drinking water.
Beating, throbbing, in and about heart and sternum, then fearful cramps or spasms from middle of sternum to pit of stomach, with repeated vomitings.
Everything sours in stomach.
Dyspepsia ; food vomited an hour or so after meals.
Gastric symptoms predominate with headache.
Burning distress in stomach and pancreas, with watery diarrhœa and great prostration.
Burning distress in pancreas, sweetish vomit.
Shocks of pain in umbilical region up to epigastrium ; nausea, straining and belching of wind.

Hypochondria

Cutting in region of liver.
Pain in right hypochondriac region ; < from motion.
Acute and chronic disorders of liver.
Increase of bile, then deficiency of, with jaundice.
Anxious look ; vomits almost constantly a greenish yellow matter, very bitter ; great tenderness in region of liver ; urgent desire for stool ; bowels torpid ; pulse 130, temperature, 103.2 ; great pain in abdomen, < on pressure ; tongue dry, coated
on each side, red streak in centre ; dull and stupid. θ Bilious colic.
Acute affections of pancreas, inflammation or salivation.
Pains above crest of ilium, right side, then left.

Abdomen and loins

Colicky pains, intermittent about navel, before each spell of vomiting or purging.
Pains in umbilical region and loud rumbling in bowels.
Pain in region of umbilicus, < from motion ; diarrhœa threatening or actually existing ; general headache, < in anterior half, in individuals subject to headache ; nausea and vomiting.
Sharp, griping pains in bowels.
Colicky pains, must bend forward for relief ; > after discharges of flatus.
Great prostration ; pulse frequent and feeble ; expression of great anguish in face ; much mental depression ; frequent and violent efforts to vomit, resulting, however, in little more than an enormous discharge of air, which seemed to roll off her stomach with great
force ; intense pain in umbilical region, passing in successive shocks, like effects of a galvanic battery, upward to epigastric region, followed or accompanied by nausea, straining and belching of wind ; great commotion and rumbling of bowels above seat of pain, little or none
below ; no desire for stool. θ Colic.
Abdomen very prominent ; severe rumbling of gas ; excessive watery discharges, preceded by soft and more substantial evacuations and intense aching, cramplike pains ; excessive nausea and vomiting.
Rumbling and cutting pain in lower part of abdomen, > by pressing flatus.
Periodical night colic, > by two or three free discharges before morning.
Colic of infants with flatulency and constipation.
Abdominal complaints of children occurring in Spring and Autumn.
Syphilitic sinus in left groin, result of a bubo, discharge ichorous.

Stools and rectum

Diarrhœa : with colic and rumbling in bowels ; with pain in bowels, with or without vomiting ; cramps in bowels ; thin, watery ; with frequent bilious stools ; brown and very offensive, with cutting, colicky pains, nausea and vomiting.
Stool : thin, watery, tinged with bile, copious, in a continuous stream ; green, undigested ; mushy, pappy, with fetid flatus ; bloody mucus, with great straining ; black, with fever, hot sweat, white tongue, severe headache,
despondency ; yellow, watery, corrosive ; copious, watery, with or without tenesmus ; frequent, very green and watery ; watery, mixed with mucus ; thin, yellow, fecal ; fetid or coppery smelling ; containing undigested food.
Watery stool ; anus feels on fire ; disposition to strain and bear down ; great burning in anus.
Watery diarrhœa and colic pains precede the bloody, mucous discharges.
Bloody, mucous discharges, with severe tenesmus and rectal prolapsus.
Very soft, yellow stools, with great rumbling in bowels.
Stool of scybalous matter, together with fluid mucoid feces of offensive, putrid and coppery color.
Before stool : rumbling in abdomen ; cutting in lower part of abdomen.
During stool : cutting ; severe cramplike pains ; tenesmus ; burning at anus ; fetid, coppery smelling flatus.
After stool : pricking as of points in anus ; burning of anus, as though on fire ; prolapsus of rectum.
Periodical spells of diarrhœa, always at night about two or three o'clock.
Burning from mouth to anus. θ Diarrhœa.
Acute mucous enteritis.
Stools brown, slimy, or watery, frequent and generally very offensive ; attacks sudden and characterized by uncommonly severe tenesmus, prolapsus of rectum, frequently piles, and very intense feeling of exhaustion from very commencement ; appetite not much
affected ; generally no pain in bowels. θ Diarrhœa.
Cholera infantum, with profuse, sour discharges from stomach and bowels, and pain in head.
Cholera morbus : occurring in hottest part of season ; vomiting ; grumbling pains in bowels, watery, green stools.
Severe pain in bowels, with much rumbling ; constant nausea ; vomiting and purging every few moments ; limbs and body cold ; occasional cramps in lower extremities ; vomited matter was glairy mucus with some bile at times ; stools thin and colorless. θ Cholera
morbus.
Autumnal bilious diarrhœa.
Bilious dysentery ; body cold ; skin blue ; vomiting with prostration.
Constipation : succeeded by thin, watery diarrhœa ; with flatulent colic ; migraine ; nervousness ; irregular menses ; colic and sick headache ; headache affecting forehead and eyes ; hemorrhoids.
Prolapsus of rectum.
Anus feels sore, or as if sharp points were sticking in it.
Premonitory diarrhœa for two or three days, then purging suddenly became <, with vomiting, cramps in body and lower limbs ; two hours later diarrhœa profuse and involuntary, evacuations being wholly of rice water character ; vomiting frequent
and severe, the matter ejected consisting principally of small white flocculent bodies, with bodies of undigested food ; crampy pains in abdomen and lumbar region, also less severely in legs ; intense and urgent thirst ; difficulty and oppression of breathing ; choleraic
expression ; face limbs and body cold ; tongue slightly bluish, furred and icy cold to touch. θ Cholera.
Asiatic cholera, with rice water discharges, cramps, etc.

Urinary organs

Cutting and pricking in urethra while urinating.
Urine : scanty, red ; burning length of urethra after passing it ; clear, profuse ; copious, watery in nervous headache ; very high colored and scanty.

Male sexual organs

Nocturnal emissions, with amorous dreams.
Coldness and itching of parts.
Excitement of generative organs reflex from an excessively acid stomach.
Heavy, dragging gait and excitable sexual desire.
Coldness and relaxation of scrotum.
Spermatorrhœa, with pale face, sunken eyes ; depression.
Secondary gonorrhœa or gleet ; syphilis ; mercurial syphilis.

Female sexual organs

Neuralgia and rheumatism of uterus.
Metrorrhagia.
Menses regular but excessive.
Uterine leucorrhœa.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Morning sickness during pregnancy ; vomit sour or bitter.
Protracted nausea and vomiting during pregnancy ; profuse flow of saliva.
Inflammation and soreness of uterus, very sensitive to touch ; pain across umbilicus, with severe griping at short intervals ; nausea and vomiting of green or yellow bile, with eructations of a great deal of flatus during and between times of vomiting ; diarrhœa of a
yellow, bilious character. θ Miscarriage.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Dry, tickling cough, with smarting burning in throat.

Cough

Short, dry cough, excited by excessive tickling in larynx, preceded or accompanied by dry, smarting, or burning sore throat.

Inner chest and lungs

Pain in left side of chest, as if ribs were pressing against lungs.

Neck and back

Crampy pain in right lumbar region.

Upper limbs

Acute rheumatic pain right shoulder < from motion, especially on raising arm.
Shooting burning pain in right shoulder ; gastralgia or enteralgia.
Pains shift rapidly in phalanges and metacarpal bones.
Fingers pain on writing.

Lower limbs

Slight coxalgia in left hip.
Sciatic pains, as if left hip joint was wrenched.
Painful drawing and lameness behind left trochanter, extending down to popliteal space.
Shooting, burning, laming pain, affecting posterior femoral muscles ; shooting along left sciatic nerve to foot, < by motion ; moderate motion aggravates, violent motion makes no difference ; shooting, burning pains in right shoulder.
Pain confined to left leg, shooting, burning, laming, affecting posterior femoral muscles, and shooting along left sciatic nerve to foot ; < by motion. θ Sciatica.

Limbs in general

Shifting pains in right hip, both knees, < right and in right foot, especially, and first joint of great toe.
Tearing, shooting and rapidly shifting pains in joints and extremities, especially smaller joints, but more particularly in right shoulder.

Rest. position. motion

Rest : headache <.
Sitting down : chronic frontal headache <.
Must bend forward for relief : from colicky pains.
Standing up : chronic headache >.
Raising arm : pain in shoulder <.
After exertion : headache <.
Overexertion : causes nausea.
Constant motion : headache >.
Motion : pain in right hypochondriac region < ; pain in region of umbilicus < ; pain in shoulder < ; pain along sciatic nerve <.
Moderate motion : headache >.
Violent motion : sick headache < ; pains along sciatic nerve not affected.

Nerves

Great debility ; faint, weak knees, trembling ; sunken eyes ; after protracted or severe serous or bilious stools, as in summer diarrhœa.

Sleep

Sleeplessness ; starts in sleep.

Time

Aggravation in evening and at night ; from rest, also from motion ; > from continued motion.
Morning : pain in head grows more violent towards afternoon and night ; sickness.
Towards evening : headache and nausea <.
Evening : headache < ; much itching of eruption.
Night : emissions ; chilliness ; great itching of eruption ; great itching of eczema.

Temperature and weather

Warm room : toothache.
Open air : headache >.
After cold drink : aching in stomach.
Cold air : headache and nausea <.

Fever

Chilliness all night.
Chills, with sleepiness.
Head and face cold.
Heat followed by chill, with cold hands and feet.
Chills over whole body, even when well covered ; fever with muttering delirium and bilious diarrhœa.
Skin hot ; dry, black stool.
Sweat over whole body, particularly in groin.
Bilious fever after Bryon. or Acon.
Typhoid fever, with symptoms similar to Baptis.
Muttering delirium ; yellow, watery, stinking diarrhœa ; involuntary passage of urine and feces ; coated tongue, dry, brown, crusty, edges red, sordes on gums and teeth, and foul breath. θ Typhoid.
Fever ; stupor ; black, stinking, involuntary diarrhœa, tongue dry and brown ; fetid breath. θ Typhoid.
Fever, intense headache, pain in small of back, black dysenteric passages, nausea and efforts to vomit. θ Typhoid.

Attacks, periodicity

Paroxysmal : headache through day.
Every few moments : vomiting and purging.
At short intervals : severe griping in abdomen.
An hour after eating : vomiting of food.
After breakfast every morning : neuralgia of face ; headache ; pain in stomach.
Periodical nightly colic, diarrhœa 2 or 3 A. M.
Every eighth day : sick headache.
At intervals of many days, so as to become periodical : headache.
Every two weeks : ear gathers and discharges.
Once every month or six weeks : periodical vomiting spells, lasting two or three days.
Spring and Autumn : abdominal complaints.

Locality and direction

Right : headache in forehead and eyes < ; dull throbbing or shooting in side of forehead ; shooting in temple ; hemicrania ; severe pain in occiput < ; stitches in lower cerebellum ; neuralgic pain side of face ; pain in hypochondriac
region ; crampy pain in lumbar region ; acute rheumatic pain in shoulder ; shooting, burning pain in shoulder ; shifting pains in hip, in foot ; herpes zoster on side of body.
Left : acute, boring pains on side of forehead ; ear covered with eruption ; syphilitic sinus in groin ; pain in side of chest ; slight coxalgia in hip ; sciatic pain in hip joint ; painful drawing and lameness behind trochanter ; pain along
sciatic nerve to foot ; in leg vesicular eruption on knee.
From right to left : pain shoots like an electric shock from temple to occiput ; acute, boring pains through forehead ; pain above crest of ilium.

Sensations

As of a band around head ; tongue feels as if scalded ; as if mouth and fauces were on fire ; mouth as if it was scalded ; gums and tongue feel as though covered with a greasy substance ; feeling of enlargement like a burning cavern in throat ;
pain like effects of a galvanic battery upward to epigastric region ; arms feel as if on fire ; pricking as of points ; as if ribs were pressing against lungs ; as if left hip joint was wrenched.
Pain : in head, in forehead and eyes ; in tonsils ; in stomach ; in right hypochondriac region ; above crest of ilium, r. side, then left ; in umbilical region ; in bowels ; across umbilicus ; in left side of chest ; shifts rapidly in
phalanges and metacarpal bones ; in fingers ; in left leg ; in small of back.
Pain : like an electric shock from right temple to left side of occiput.
Intense pain : in umbilical region.
Violent pain : over eyes ; in supraorbital region on either side, but only on one side at a time.
Violent pain : with every fit of vomiting ; in epigastric region.
Great pain : in abdomen.
Severe pain : in head, through temples and over eyes ; in occiput < right side ; in bowels.
Severe frontal headache.
Violent stunning headache with facial neuralgia.
Great burning distress : in stomach ; in epigastrium ; in pancreas.
Fearful cramps : from middle of sternum to pit of stomach ; in bowels.
Sharp, cutting pains of short duration in head.
Cutting : in head ; in region of liver ; in lower part of abdomen ; in urethra.
Tearing, shooting and rapidly shifting pains in joints and extremities, especially smaller joints, but more particularly in right shoulder.
Shooting, burning pain : in right shoulder ; affecting posterior femoral muscles.
Shooting pains : in temples ; into ears ; in right shoulder ; along sciatic nerve to foot.
Acute, boring or shooting pains : in one side of forehead, generally left.
Sharp pains : in centre of temples.
Darting stitches : in two carious teeth.
Stitches : in lower cerebellum, right side.
Violent throbbing : in either side of frontal protuberance.
Beating, throbbing : in and about heart and sternum.
Dull throbbing or shooting : in right side of forehead.
Dull throbbing or hammering : in forehead.
Severe griping : in abdomen.
Sharp, griping pains : in bowels.
Intense aching, cramplike pains : in abdomen.
Colicky pains : about navel.
Neuralgic pains : in right side of face.
Neuralgia : facial or cephalic ; of head, eyes and temples ; involving supra and infraorbital, superior maxillary and inferior dental nerves.
Acute rheumatic pain : in right shoulder.
Sciatic pains : in left hip joint.
Shifting pains : in right hip, both knees, in right foot and first joint of great toe.
Grumbling pains : in bowels.
Shocks of pain : in umbilical region, up to epigastrium.
Habitual headache.
Chronic headaches with asthenopia.
Chronic frontal headache.
Slight dull pain : at situation of posterior fontanelle.
Dull, heavy frontal headache.
Sick headache : of gastric or hepatic origin.
Cramps : in lower extremities ; in body.
Crampy pains : in abdomen and lumbar region ; in right lumbar region.
Aching : in stomach.
Pricking : in urethra.
Smarting burning : in throat.
Burning : in internal canthus ; at anus ; in mouth and fauces ; œsophagus and stomach ; from mouth to anus ; in urethra.
Soreness : of uterus.
Painful drawing and lameness behind left trochanter, extending down to popliteal space.
Tenderness : in region of stomach and liver.
Tired headache.
Full, heavy feeling in head.
Fulness : of stomach.
Greasy feeling : in mouth.
Very intense feeling of exhaustion.
Constriction : around forehead.
Constricted feeling : in scalp.
Great heat : of head.
Tenderness : in region of liver.
Excessive tickling : in larynx.
Coldness : of male sexual organs.
Itching : of male sexual organs ; of eruption.

Tissues

Excites secretion of glands, salivary, pancreatic, intestinal, etc.
Acts powerfully on gastro-intestinal mucous membrane.
Ascites and anasarca of hepatic origin.
Scrofula ; eruptions on skin ; glandular swellings.
Will abort felon.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : uterus very sensitive.
Pressure : great pain in abdomen <.
Riding : causes nausea.

Skin

Small blood-boils on face, hands and back.
Fine eruption, showing black points after scratching, great itching at night.
Herpes zoster on right side of body.
Vesicular eruption, becoming pustular, on arms, abdomen, back, nates and left knee ; much itching in evening.
Vesicular eruption, becoming pustular.
Pustular eruption on scalp, face, around mouth and other parts of body.
Eczema, with great itching, especially at night ; small, fine eruptions, which show black points after scratching.
Irregular patches on knees, elbows and body, with shining scales, edges slightly raised. θ Psoriasis.
Psoriasis in relievo, skin fissured and irritable.
Tinea capitis ; crusta lactea ; porrigo ; eczema of face.
Impetigo capitis, with gastric complaints, nausea and vomiting.
Impetigo figurata, eruption dry, distinct and of dark hue.
Obstinate lepra vulgaris on arms.

Stage of life, constitution

Scrawny, scrofulous child, few weeks after birth ; impetigo.
Baby, æt. 5 months ; diarrhœa.
Baby, æt. 8 months, suffering for two months ; diarrhœa.
Baby, frequently troubled with boils, mother had itch ; tinea capitis.
Girl, æt. 11, suffering for three or four years ; headache.
A boy, æt. 12 ; typhoid fever.
Man, æt. 20, has had syphilis and taken mercury, suffering three months ; syphilitic sinus.
Woman, æt. 20 ; cholera morbus.
Woman, æt. 30 ; bilious colic.
Woman, æt. 30, nervo-sanguine, suffering from phlegmasia alba dolens succeeding an abortion ; salivation.
Lady, æt. 31, debilitated by overlactation ; cholera.
Man, health good, subject to sudden and often unaccountable attacks ; diarrhœa.
Widow, æt. 42, tall, light complexion and hair, blue eyes, suffering three weeks, sciatica.
Woman, æt. 43, small in stature, black hair, blue eyes, active disposition, slight icteric taint, uses strong tea and coffee to excess ; constipation.
Middle aged woman ; typhoid.
Woman, æt. 60 ; cholera morbus.
Woman, æt. 65, nervous bilious temperament, wife of farmer, works very hard ; colic.
A woman, æt. 83 ; typhoid.

Relations

Antidoted by Nux vom .
Antidotes : Mercur., Nux vom., Phytol .
Compare : Ant. crud., Ant. tart., Arsen., Colchic., Eup. perf., Ipecac., Juglans cin., Leptandra, Mercur., Pulsat., Sanguin., Veratr .