Kali Carbonicum kali-c.

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

Muscles; ligaments: HEART. Uterus. LUMBAR. SEROUS and mucous membranes: CHEST (R. lower). Joints. Eyes. Blood. Left side.

Worse

Cold: AIR. Water. Drafts. Changes after Overheating. Changes after exertion. Time: 2-3 A.M. Winter. Before menses. Lying: On painful or left side. Loss of fluids. After labor.

Better

Warmth. Sitting with elbows on knees. Open air.

General

WEAKENING, intellection; muscles, heart, back, limbs, etc. Gives out, leans on something or lies down; with backache, profuse secretions, sweat, etc. Soft, thin blooded and cold. Old, fleshy, dropsical or paralytic. SHARP STITCHINGS, stabbings or catches in joints, muscles, chest, head, epigastrium, back, etc. Throbbing, numb or cold single parts, abdomen, fingers, etc. Acrid discharges. Sub-acute conditions. Parts lain on are painful and go to sleep.

Particulars

Peevish. Easily startled; < touch; on dropping to sleep. Anxious aversion to solitude. Headaches, into eyes; wake from sleep. Eyes weak. Vision, spotted; like drops before. Puffs over, inner angle of eyes or baggy upper lids. Stitches out of ears. Head colds; go to chest. Nose stuffed, > open air; swelled; yellow-green or crusty discharge. Puffy face. Slimy mouth. Gray tongue. Itching gums. Hawks up tough mucus in A.M. DIFFICULT SWALLOWING. Salty regurgitation. Vomits sour mucus. Sensitive, distended stomach and abdomen. Fulness; from but little, even after drinks; as if full of water. Anxious at epigastrium. Throbbing back of stomach; at navel. Gastric pains going to back, chest, limbs, etc. Flatulence. Hard tympanites. Stool difficult; of large, hard lumps, then burning or torn feeling. Piles inflamed, bleeding; descend when urinating or coughing, > riding horseback; stick like fine needles, > cool bathing. Burning in l. kidney. Nocturnal enuresis of adults. Urine foamy, with thick, tough, red sediment. Delayed first menses. Amenorrhœa. Colic, then irritating menses; > washing. Inefficient labor pains. Catarrhal aphonia. Respiration short, < least motion or walking; asthmatic, alternating with diarrhœa; with vertigo. Incessant, hard retching or choking, futile cough; then vomiting. Pertussis. Lungs seem to stick to ribs. Pleurisy. Stabbing chest pains. Heart seems to hang by a thread; pains toward l. scapula. Palpitation; then weakness; in valvular disease. Arrhythmia. Cardiac degeneration. Fine stitches in mammæ. Everything affects the small of the back or pains start there. Back and legs give out; feel heavy. Lumbago. Arms weak; numb pinching in left. Painful tips of fingers and toes. Œdema of left foot. Sensitive soles; skin. Dry hair and skin. General itching or hives; during menses. Talks in sleep. Pulse small, soft, variable, intermittent or dicrotic. Chilly; with hot hands; and sleepiness; in open air. Internal burning. Sweat scanty, foul on feet.

Related

Complementary: Carb-v. Nit-ac. Pho. Related: Calc-Hypo. Lyc. Pho.

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

H. C. Allen · Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Medi-T HTML text; edition not stated by the mirror (first edition 1898, Allen d. 1909)

Keynote

For diseases of old people, dropsy and paralysis; with dark hair, lax fibre, inclined to obesity (Am. c., Graph.). After loss of fluids or vitality, particularly in anaemic (Cinch., Phos. ac., Phos., Psor.). Pains, stitching, darting, worse during rest and lying on affected side (stitching, darting, better during rest and lying on painful side, Bry.). Cannot bear to be touched; starts when touched ever so lightly, especially on the feet. Great aversion to being alone (Ars., Bis., Lyc. - desires to be alone, Ign., Nux). Bag-like swellings between the upper eyelids and eyebrows. Weak eyes; after coition, pollution, abortion, measles. Stomach: distended, sensitive; feels as if it would burst; excessive flatulency, everything she eats or drinks appears to be converted to gas (Iod.)[Lyc.]. Nosebleed when washing the face in the morning (Am. c., Arn.). Toothache only when eating; throbbing; < when touched by anything warm or cold. Backache, sweating, weakness; after abortion, labor, metrorrhage; when eating; while walking feels as if she must give up and lie down. Cough: dry, paroxsymal, loosens viscid mucus or pus which must be swallowed; spasmodic with gagging or vomiting of ingesta; hard, white or smoky masses fly from throat when coughing (Bad., Chel.). Feels badly, week before menstruation; backache, before and during menses. Labor pains insufficient; violent backache; wants the back pressed (Caust.). Asthma, relieved when sitting up or bending forward or by rocking; worse from 2 to 4 a. m. Persons suffering from ulceration of the lungs can scarcely get well without this anti-psoric - Hahnemann. Difficult swallowing; sticking pain in pharynx as of a fish-bone (Hep., Nit. ac.); food easily gets into the windpipe; pain in back when swallowing. Constipation: stool large, difficult, with stitching, colic pains an hour or two before. Heart: tendency to fatty degeneration (Phos.); as if suspended by a thread (Lach.). Very much inclined to take cold.

Relations

Complementary: Carbo veg. Follows well: after, Kali s., Phos., Stan. in loose rattling cough. Will bring on the menses when Nat. m. though apparently indicated, fails - Hahnemann.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

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

General

The most characteristic indication is a stitching pain, or a series of sharp stitching pains, which may be felt in any part of the body, as in colics, during labor, or in any kind of troubles, which are accompanied by these sharp, stitching pains,--called also jerking pains. One of the best of remedies following childbirth, and its consequences.

Head

Violent headaches about the inner temples; violent stitching or jerking pains, on one side of the head or both. Affections of the hair of the head; eyebrows. Dazzling of the sight preventing clear vision; spotted vision, i.e., there appears to be a spot, or spots between the eyes and the object looked at.

Stool and Anus

Obstruction from inactivity of the bowels, as a want of proper peristaltic motion; affections of the anus; stools too large in size; hæmorrhoids.

Cough

Cough with expectoration bloody, acrid, or purulent.

Sexual

Male: Complaints in the male from coition, from involuntary seminal emissions. Female: Prominent remedy for vaginal troubles; also for the uterus. Pain like labor pains; false pains, which usually come in the back, and pass down over the buttocks, through the gluteal muscles; labor pains ceasing, or too weak. Menstruation too late, a long interval elapsing between the periods; menses too scanty; menses suppressed; menstrual blood acrid. Complaints after parturition.

Sleep

Waking too early, particularly at three or four o'clock in the morning; sleepiness in the evening; sleeplessness after midnight; sleeplesness in general.

Sensations

Sharp stitching or jerking pains; cutting or jerking in inner parts, or sometimes both; sensations of knocking, or throbbing, or jumping in outer parts; great weakness of the joints.

Generalities

Affections in general, occurring in the right hypochondriac region; right abdominal ring; left chest; left upper extremity; external and internal ears; of the inner surface of the liver; inner region of the kidneys; lower part of the chest; shoulder; shoulder-joint; elbow and elbow-joint; hollow of the elbow; wrist-joint: big toe; tips of the toes; joints of the legs in general; joints of the toes. Disgust of food in general. Obstructed flatus. Aversion to the open air. Subsultus tendium. Inflammatory swelling of the part, with the characteristic (stitching or jerking) pains. Dryness of the skin.

Worse

Worse after midnight; after sexual intercourse; in cold air; on getting cold; during eating; after eating; from getting heated; during menstruation; from suppressed menstruation; lying on the side (either); looking at an object fixedly; from involuntary pollutions; when writing.

Better

From eructation; while sitting in a bent position, on getting warm; from warmth in general; in warm air.

Remedies following

Arsen., Lycop., Pulsat., Phosphor., Sepia, Sulphur.

Antidotes

Spirits of Nitre, Dulcam.

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

Swelling like a sack between the eyebrows and lids Stitches in region of liver, with tension across the abdomen. Stitches in the chest on inspiration, cutting pains in the evening, after lying down; cough worse from 3 to 4 a.m.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Carbonate of Potassium (KALI CARBONICUM)

General

The weakness characteristic of all Potassium Salts is seen especially in this, with soft pulse, coldness, general depression, and very characteristic stitches, which may be felt in any part of the body, or in connection with any affection. All Kali pains are sharp and cutting; nearly all better by motion. Never use any Salts of Potash where there is fever (T. F. Allen). Sensitive to every atmospheric change, and intolerance of cold weather. One of the best remedies following labor. Miscarriage, for consequent debilitated states. Early morning aggravation is very characteristic. Fleshy aged people, with dropsical and paretic tendencies. Sweat, backache, and weakness. Throbbing pains. Tendency to dropsy. Tubercular diathesis. Pains from within out, and of stinging character. "Giving-out" sensation. Fatty degenerations. Stinging pains in muscles and internal parts. Twitching of muscles. Pain in small spot on left side Hypothyroidism. Coxitis.

Mind

Despondent. Alternating moods. Very irritable. Full of fear and imaginations. Anxiety felt in stomach. Sensation as if bed were sinking. Never wants to be left alone. Never quiet or contented. Obstinate and hypersensitive to pain, noise, touch.

Head

Vertigo on turning. Headache from riding in cold wind. Headache comes on with yawning. Stitches in temples; aching in occiput, one-sided, with nausea, on riding in carriage. Loose feeling in head. Great dryness of hair; falls out (Fluor ac).

Eyes

Stitches in eyes. Spots, gauze, and black points before eyes. Lids stick together in morning. Swelling over upper lid, like little bags. Swelling of glabella between brows. Asthenopia. Weak sight from excessive sexual indulgence. On shutting eyes, painful sensation of light penetrating the brain.

Ears

Stitches in ears. Itching, cracking, ringing and roaring.

Nose

Nose stuffs up in warm room. Thick, fluent, yellow discharge. Post-nasal dropping (Spigel). Sore, scurfy nostrils; bloody nasal mucus. Crusty nasal openings. Nosebleed on washing face in morning. Ulcerated nostrils.

Mouth

Gums separate from teeth; pus oozes out. Pyorrhea. Aphthæ. Tongue white. Much saliva constantly in mouth. Bad, slimy taste.

Throat

Dry, parched, rough. Sticking pain, as from a fish-bone. Swallowing difficult; food goes down œsophagus slowly. Mucous accumulation in the morning.

Stomach

Flatulence. Desire for sweets. Feeling of lump in pit of stomach. Gagging. Dyspepsia of old people; burning acidity, bloating. Gastric disorders from ice-water. Sour eructations. Nausea; better lying down. Constant feeling as if stomach were full of water. Sour vomiting; throbbing and cutting in stomach. Disgust for food. Anxiety felt in stomach. Epigastrium sensitive externally. Easy choking when eating. Epigastric pain to back.

Abdomen

Stitches in region of liver. Old chronic liver troubles, with soreness. Jaundice and dropsy. Distention and coldness of abdomen. Pain from left hypochondrium through abdomen; must turn on right side before he can rise.

Rectum

Large, difficult stools, with stitching pain an hour before. Hæmorrhoids, large, swollen, painful. Itching, ulcerated pimples around anus. Large discharge of blood with natural stool. Pain in hæmorrhoids when coughing. Burning in rectum and anus. Easy prolapsus (Graph; Pod). Itching (Ignat).

Urine

Obliged to rise several times at night to urinate. Pressure on bladder long before urine comes. Involuntary urination when coughing, sneezing, etc.

Male

Complaints from coition. Deficient sexual instinct. Excessive emissions, followed by weakness.

Female

Menses early, profuse (Calc c) or too late, pale and scanty, with soreness about genitals; pains from back pass down through gluteal muscles, with cutting in abdomen. Pain through left labium, extending through abdomen to chest. Delayed menses in young girls, with chest symptoms or ascites. Difficult, first menses. Complaints after parturition. Uterine hæmorrhage; constant oozing after copious flow, with violent backache, relieved by sitting and pressure.

Respiratory

Cutting pain in chest; worse lying on right side. Hoarseness and loss of voice. Dry, hard cough about 3 am, with stitching pains and dryness of pharynx. Bronchitis, whole chest is very sensitive. Expectoration scanty and tenacious, but increasing in morning and after eating; aggravated right lower chest and lying on painful side. Hydrothorax. Leaning forward relieves chest symptoms. Expectoration must be swallowed; cheesy taste; copious, offensive, lump. Coldness of chest. Wheezing. Cough with relaxed uvula. Tendency to tuberculosis; constant cold taking; better in warm climate.

Heart

Sensation as if heart were suspended. Palpitation and burning in heart region. Weak, rapid pulse; intermits, due to digestive disturbance. Threatened heart failure.

Back

Great exhaustion. Stitches in region of kidneys and right scapula. Small of back feels weak. Stiffness and paralytic feeling in back. Burning in spine (Guaco). Severe backache during pregnancy, and after miscarriage. Hip-disease. Pain in nates and thighs and hip-joint. Lumbago with sudden sharp pains extending up and down back and to thighs.

Extremities

Backs and legs give out. Uneasiness heaviness, and tearing in limbs and jerking. Tearing pain in limbs with swelling. Limbs sensitive to pressure. White swelling of knee. Tearing in arms from shoulder to wrist. Lacerating in wrist-joint. Paralysis of old people, and dropsical affections. Limbs go to sleep easily. Tips of toes and fingers painful. Soles very sensitive. Itching of great toe, with pain. Pain from hip to knee. Pain in knees.

Skin

Burning as from a mustard plaster.

Sleep

Drowsy after eating. Wakes about two o'clock and cannot sleep again.

Modalities

Worse, after coition; in cold weather; from soup and coffee; in morning about three o'clock; lying on left and painful side. Better, in warm weather, though moist; during day, while moving about.

Relationship

Complementary: Carbo; (Lowness of vitality may suggest a preliminary course of Carbo to nurse up recuperation to the point that Kali carb would come in helpfully). Follows Nux often in stomach and bladder troubles.

Compare: Kali salicylicum (vomiting, especially of pregnancy; arteriosclerosis, with chronic rheumatism); kali silicum (gouty nodosities); Kali aceticum (diabetes, diarrhœa, dropsy, alkaline urine, very much increased in quantity); Kali citricum (Bright's disease-1 gr to wine-glass of water); Kali ferrocyanatum-Prussian blue--(physical and mental prostration following infection. Inability to sustained routine work. Neuralgic affections depending on impoverished blood and exhausted nerve centers, especially spinal. Fatty and functional heart troubles. Pulse weak, small, irregular. Uterine symptoms, like Sepia, bearing-down sensation and gastric sinking; profuse, pus-like leucorrhœa and passive hæmorrhage; use 6x); Kali oxalicum (lumbago, convulsions); Kali picro-nitricum and kali pricricum (jaundice, violent eructations); kali tartaricum (paraplegia); Kali telluricum (garlicky odor of breath, salivation, swollen tongue). Also compare: Calc; Ammon phos; Phos; Lycop; Bry; Natrum; Stann; Sepia.

Antidotes: Camph; Coffea.

Dose

Thirtieth and higher. Sixth trit. Do not repeat too often. Use cautiously in old gouty cases, advanced Bright's and tuberculosis.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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

Leaders

Stitching pains, very characteristic.

Pain in lower right chest through to back.

Anæmia with bloating, especially upper eyelids, which hang down like a bag of water.

Backache, sweat, weakness very great; drops down in chair.

Flatulence great; everything turns to gas.

Heart weak, irregular, intermits.

After loss of fluids or of vitality, particularly in the anæmic.

Asthma, relieved when sitting up or bending forward, or by rocking (Ars.); worse from 2 to 4 A. M.

Backache, before and during menses.

Complementary to Carbo vegetabilis.

This remedy, like some others, finds its leading symptom in the character of its pains. It leads all the remedies for stitching pains. Bryonia stands next, but there is a very marked difference. The stitching pains of Bryonia come on with every movement, and only exceptionally when quiet, while those of Kali carb. come on independently of movement. Again, the stitching pains of Bryonia are oftenest located in serous membranes, while those of Kali carb. are found anywhere and everywhere, and in almost every tissue, even to the teeth. One of the favorite localities, however, for this remedy is in the lower right chest. This sharp stitching pain is likely to run right through to the back. If in pneumonia or pleuro-pneumonia your Bryonia has failed when you thought it indicated, and further examination reveals that the stitching pains come on independently of the respiratory movement, Kali carb. often helps, and follows well after Bryonia. Often the fact is, that Kali carb. was all the time the remedy and ought to have been given first. Now, these stitching pains of Kali carb. are not by any means confined to the right chest, but we may find them in the left, especially in pleuro-pneumonia, peri- or endocarditis. Remember, also, Mercurius vivus in these lower right-chest pains. If there should be present at the same time sweat without relief, and the mercurial mouth and tongue, neither Bryonia nor Kali carb. are "in it."

Another kind of case in which this remedy has achieved signal success, being indicated by the stitching pains, is puerperal fever.

The pains are so sudden and so sharp as to make the patient cry out loudly, and then they are gone. Kali carb. has saved some desperate cases of this kind. But it makes no particular difference where the disease is located, if these stitching pains are present, Kali card should not be forgotten. We cannot too strongly emphasize this.

Kali carbonicum exerts a profound influence over the blood-making processes. The blood lacks red corpuscles. The patient is anæmic, with great debility, skin watery or milky white. This condition is often found with young ladies at the age of puberty. They do not seem to be able to menstruate because of the poor quality of blood and general weakness. They incline to bloat, particularly in face, around eyes and especially upper eyelids, and have much pain and weakness in the lumbar region as well as general weakness. Kali carb. is in such cases sometimes successful after Ferrum or Pulsatilla have been wrongly prescribed.

This anæmic condition is also found at the menopause, and in old age, when the same dropsical tendencies appear, and the same characteristic bag-like swelling, or rather bloating, in the upper eyelids appears. In all these cases you will generally, or often, at least, find what is called "weak heart." The heart action is irregular or intermittent from very weakness in correspondence with the general muscular weakness. One of the characteristic symptoms which makes us think of Kali carb. in these cases in the constant backache of such a nature that the patient feels all the time that the back and legs must give out. she drops into a chair or throws herself on the bed completely exhausted. This aching often extends into the hips and down into the gluteal muscles. Patient sweats easily. Farrington says: "This particular sweat, backache and weakness as a combination is not found under any other remedy."

I have already spoken of this remedy somewhat while writing of its stitching pains as an indication for its use in diseases of the chest, but I did not there do it full justice. It is not only a great remedy for pneumonia, pleurisy and heart troubles, as there spoken of, but goes much further and becomes very useful in incipient and even with advanced cases of phthisis pulmonalis. I have seen a case pronounced incurable by several old experienced and skillful physicians, Dr. T. L Brown among them, get well under a dose once in eight days of Kali carb. The disease was located mainly in the lower right lung, with profuse expectoration of matter of pus-like appearance, pulse 120, greatly emaciated, no appetite, and quite a large cavity in the lung. This man is still alive (twenty-five years later), hale and hearty. Such service from any remedy makes a man fall in love with it. There is a time characteristic for this remedy which is very valuable in chest affections, viz, aggravation at 3 A. M. It may be found in cough, consumption, hydrothorax, asthma, and dropsies attending heart disease The father-in-law of Dr. T.L. Brown, an anæmic old man, was apparently near his end with hydrothorax and general dropsy Dr Brown was a skillful Prescriber, but in this case had utterly failed to even relieve. In consultation with Dr. Sloan, after carefully reviewing the case, the fact appeared, through de daughter of the patient, who had been his nurse all the time, that all his symptoms were aggravated at 3 A. M. Now Kali Carb. 200 was given, and with such miraculous results that in an incredibly short time the old man was well and never had a return of that trouble. He lived for several years after, and, finally, did nor die of dropsy at all. The day of miracles is not past yet. Hahnemannian Homœopathy performs them still.

I cannot persuade myself to have this remedy yet, although I have given its chief uses.

I must call attention still further, even at the risk of repearing somewhat, to some very important symptoms. In regard to the nervous system I have already spoken of the great debility which I have called muscular debility, but there is a weakened condition of the nerves which renders them very sensitive which is well described in the symptoms found in the Materia Medica. "Very easily frightened, shrieks abut imaginary appearances; cannot bear to be touched; starts when touched ever so lightly, especially on the feet" these are valuable indication for Kali carb. Then don't forget the "bag-like œdematous swelling in the upper eyelids." It goes with many affections and is invaluable as a guiding symptom. "Sticking pain in the throat (pharynx), as if a fishbone were sticking in it" (see Hepar sulphur, Dolichos, Nitric acid and Argentum nitricum).

"Great sensitiveness of epigastric region, externally."

"Stomach distended, sensitive, feels as if it would burst."

"Excessive flatulency, everything he eats or drinks appears to be converted into gas."

"Fullness, heat and great distention in abdomen immediately after eating a little."

"Abdomen distended with wind after eating."

All these stomach and abdomen symptoms indicate the value of this remedy in dyspeptic conditions. They make us think of Carbo vegetabilis, China officinalis and Lycopodium clavatum, but remember Kali carb. and that it is especially adapted to broken down, aged people who are anæmic. "Sitting up, leaning forward, relieves in chest affections." The patient is also aggravated by lying on the affected side. Don't forget this, for it may enable you to choose between it and Bryonia, which has the reverse.

Now in what I hat written I do not pretend to have told all, and if I thought that any young physician would be led to rely alone upon this work of mine or be led away from thorough study of the Materia Medica instead of to it I would stop writing.

Modalities

Modalities: < at 3 to 4 A. M.

Text Book of Materia Medica

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

Mind and Disposition

Angry and irritable. Anxiety with fear. Becomes easily startled ; great tendency to start when touched. Vexed and irritated mood ; trifles vex one ; noise is disagreeable. Dread of labor.

Head

Sudden attack of unconsciousness. Giddiness, as if proceeding from the stomach. Dulness of the head ; confused, stupid feeling, as after intoxication. Vertigo when rapidly turning the head or body. Vertigo, mostly in the evening and morning. Congestions of blood to the head, with throbbing and humming in it. One-sided headache, with nausea. Stitches in the temples and forehead ; worse from stooping and moving the head, eyes and the lower jaw ; ameliorated when raising the head and from heat. Pressing pain : in the back part of the head. Headache from riding in a carriage ; from coughing and sneezing. Pressure over the eyes, with violent pain in the whole fore, head. Liability of the head to take cold, especially when exposed to a draught after being heated (from it headache or toothache). Painful tumors on the scalp, like beginning blood-boils ; more painful from pressure and motion, and less so from external heat ; accompanied by itching, as if in the bones of the head, with great dryness of the hair. Falling off of the hair, especially on the temples, of the eye brows and the beard, with great dryness of the hair, with violent burning-itching of the scalp in the morning and evening ; the scalp oozes if scratched.

Eyes

Stitches in the eyes. Pimples in the eyebrows. The white of the eye is ; red ; the capillaries ; are injected. Swelling of the eyelids and agglutination of the eyes early in the morning. The corners of the eyes ulcerate. Sensation of coldness of the eyelids. Swelling (like a bag) between the upper eyelids and eyebrows. Inclination to stare. While reading or looking in the bright light moving spots, gauze and points before the eyes. Bright sparks, blue or green spots before the eyes. Painful sensitiveness of the eyes to the light of day.

Ears

Stitches ; out of the ears (from within to without). Inflammation and ; suppuration of the ear. Itching and tickling in the ears. Redness ; heat and violent itching of the external ear. Cracking in the ears. Discharge of a yellow, liquid cerumen or pus from the ear. Inflammation and hard swelling of the parotid gland. Dulness of hearing. Singing, whizzing and roaring in the ears.

Nose

Redness and swelling of the nose, with internal soreness. Burning in the nose. Sore, scurfy nostrils. Ulcerated nostrils. Bloody, red nostrils (every morning). Dull smell. Obstruction of the nose. Fluent coryza, with excessive sneezing ; pain in the back and headache.

Face

Face bloated. Yellow color of the face. Swelling and redness of the cheeks. Swelled, ulcerated lips. Swelling and rhagades of the upper lip ; it bleeds readily. Chapped lips, peeling off. Freckles.

Mouth and Throat

Toothache, only when eating (throbbing in all the teeth) ; the teeth are painful when touched by either cold or warm substances. Stitches in the teeth, with swelling of the cheeks (with stinging pain). Looseness of all the teeth. Bad smell from the teeth. Tearing, lancinating toothache, with pain in the facial bones. Sensation of dryness in the mouth, with increased secretion of saliva. Painful vesicles all over the inner mouth, with burning pain. Burning of the tip of the tongue, as if raw or full of vesicles. Swelling of the tongue covered with small painful vesicles. Painful pimple on the tip of the tongue. Bitter taste in the mouth. Soreness of the frænum linguæ. Stinging pain in the throat when swallowing. Difficult ; deglutition ; the food descends very slowly in the œsophagus, and small particles of food easily get into the windpipe. Tenacious mucus in the posterior part of the pharynx (early in the morning) ; difficult to hawk up or to swallow, with the sensation as ; if a lump of mucus were in the throat. -Hawking of mucus. Dryness in the posterior part of the throat.

Stomach and Abdomen

Great desire for acids or sugar. Aversion to rye bread. Milk and warm food disagree. Sleepiness during a meal. Distention of the abdomen after a meal. Sour eructations (after a meal). Nausea from mental emotions. Nausea, as if he would faint ; also with anxiety. Retching for several evenings. Sour vomiting, or of food. Tension across the abdomen. Colic renewed after each meal. Stitches in the pit of the stomach and hypochondria, preventing breathing. Hard, distended abdomen, with painfulness of the umbilical region to the touch. Cutting and drawing in the abdomen, resembling false labor-pains. Inactivity and coldness in the abdomen. Stitches in the right side of the abdomen (liver). Heaviness in the abdomen. Labor-like colic, with pain in the back. Ascites. Stitches and painful bloatedness in the groins. Excessive emission of flatulence. Incarceration of flatulence, with colic.

Stool and Anus

Constipation, with difficulty of emission of too large-sized faces. Retarded stool from inactivity of the rectum. Stool resembling sheep's dung. White mucus before and during stool. Painless diarrhœa, with rumbling in the abdomen. Diarrhœa, with smarting pain at the anus. Discharge of blood with the stool. Continual burning at the anus after stool. Itching and tingling of the anus. Ulcerated pimples ; at the anus. Protrusion and distention of the varices during stool, with pricking and burning. Protrusion of the varices ; during micturition, emitting first blood, afterwards white mucus. Inflammation, soreness, stitches, and tingling, as from ascarides in the varices.

Urinary Organs

Frequent micturition, with discharge of small quantities of fiery urine. Burning in the urethra during and after micturition. The urine is discharged slowly. After micturition discharge of prostatic fluid.

Sexual Organs

Men. Sexual desire excessive or deficient. Swelling of the testes and the spermatic cord. Copious painful pollutions, with subsequent painful erections. Pollutions with voluptuous dreams. Women. Difficult first menstruation. Menstruation suppressed ; too early or too scanty. Suppression of menses, with anasarca and ascites. The menstrual blood is acrid ; makes the thighs ; sore and covers them with an eruption. During the menses (morning) headache ; cutting pain in the abdomen ; pain in the small of the back, like a weight ; stitches in the ears ; coryza ; itching of the whole body. During pregnancy discharge of blood (clots of coagulated blood). Labor-pains (false) ; violent pains in the small of the back, extending to the uterus. Yellowish leucorrhœa (burning), with pain in the small of the back ; labor-like pain ; and itching and burning in the pudendum. Tearing stitches in the milk-breasts.

Respiratory Organs

Difficult wheezing breathing. Spasmodic asthma (in the morning) ; relieved by sitting up and bending forward, resting the head on the knees. Roughness of the throat. Complete hoarseness (aphonia), with violent sneezing. Spasmodic cough, in short but frequently returning attacks, caused by a tickling in the throat and larynx ; during the morning and day the cough is loose, but the yellow pus and tough mucus has to be swallowed again. Night cough ; worse from 3 to 4 A.M. Cough with sourish expectoration, or of blood-streaked mucus, or of pus. Spasmodic cough, with retching and vomiting. During cough, rough pain in the larynx ; stinging in the throat ; stitches in the right side of the chest (lower part) ; sparks dart from the eyes ; wheezing in the chest ; asthma. The cough is worst after midnight (3 to 4 A.M.) ; from motion ; when sitting erect ; from cold ; after eating warm food, milk, bread) ; fasting (better after breakfast) ; while lying on the side. Hooping-cough (with inflammation of the lungs ; with swelling between the upper eyelid and the eyebrows), and worse from 3 to 4 A.M. Arrest of breathing awakes him at night. Pain in the chest, especially when talking. Stitches in the sternum and right side of the chest through to the back, when taking an inspiration. Tearing in the sides of the chest. Inflammation of the lungs (and liver), with stitches in the chest (right side). Suppuration of the lungs ; abscesses of the lungs. Weakness and faintness in the chest from walking fast. Palpitation of the heart in the morning (when hungry). Frequent intermissions of the beats of the heart. Burning in the region of the heart. Crampy pain in the region of the heart. Hydrothorax.

Back

Stiffness between the shoulder-blades. Pain in the small of the back, with labor-like pains in the abdomen. Pain in the small of the back after a fall. Stiffness of the back ; unable to stoop. Stitches in the region of both kidneys. Gnawing pain in the os coccygis. Pain in the small of the back ; worse after standing or walking. Pain (during pregnancy) in the small of the back, drawing up to the middle of the back. Stiffness of the nape of the neck, with elongation of the uvula (in the morning when in bed). Congestion of blood to the neck ; the neck appears larger and the neck-cloth too tight. Hard swelling of the submaxillary gland. Swelling of the cervical glands. Tickling in the glandular swelling of the neck ; relieved by pressing on the part with the cold hand.

Extremities

Upper. The arms feel numb in the cold and after violent exercise. Swelling and sore pain of the axillary glands. Perspiration in the axilla. Cracking in the shoulder-joint, when moving or raising the arm. Pain, as from blows and bruises, under the right shoulder-joint, especially when moving and touching it. Weakness and want of strength in the arms (in the morning). Cold hands. The hands tremble (in the morning) when writing. Itching of the palms of the hands ; itching vesicles in the palms of the hands. The tips of the fingers go to sleep (early in the morning). Lower. Nightly rheumatic pains in the legs. Burning and stinging in the legs. Restlessness of the legs in the evening. The lower limbs frequently go to sleep ; the feet go to sleep after a meal. Itching of the tibia. Heaviness and stiffness of the feet. Profuse fetid sweat of the feet. Cold feet in bed. Swelling of the feet up to the ankles. Swelling and redness of the soles of the feet. Inflamed, red chilblains on the toes (ball of the big toe). Stitches in the painful and sensitive corns. Sensation as if nail of the big toe would grow into the flesh.

Generalities

Stinging pains, in the muscles, joints and inner parts. Rheumatic pains with swelling ; more when at rest. Twitching of the muscles. A short walk fatigues much. Dropsical affections and paralysis of old persons.

Sleep

Great drowsiness in the day-time and early in the evening. Starting when asleep. Gnashing of the teeth at night while asleep. Arrest of breath rouses him from sleep at night. At night the left leg and the right arm go to sleep. Sleep disturbed by horrid dreams.

Fever

Pulse very variable ; frequently more rapid in the morning than in the evening ; strong pulsations in the arteries. Chilliness generally in the morning. Frequent shudderings during the day. The chilliness in the evening is relieved near the warm stove and after lying down. Chill very frequently after the pains. Heat in the morning hours in bed. Internal heat with external chilliness. Perspiration every night. Morning perspiration. Perspiration easily excited during the day by exercise and exertion. Perspiration more on the upper part of the body and increased by warm drinks. Perspiration is fetid or smells sour. Entire want of perspiration and inability to perspire. Intermittent fever; constant chilliness, with violent thirst from internal heat ; hot hands ; loathing of food. Long yawning, with heat ; pain in the chest and head ; pulsations in the abdomen, 9 A.M. and 5 P.M. Chills and heat alternate in the evening, followed by perspiration during the night. Evening fever ; first, chilliness with thirst (for one hour), then heat without thirst, accompanied by violent, fluent coryza ; afterwards slight perspiration with sound sleep. Chill and fever, with oppression of breathing, constriction of the chest, pain in the region of the liver ; most of the thirst during the chill. Intermittent fevers, with hooping-cough.

Skin

Burning and stinging-itching on the skin. Dryness of the skin ; deficient perspiration. Painful skin, as from subcutaneous ulceration, when pressing on it. Yellow, scaly, violent itching spots ; over the abdomen and around the nipples. Burning-itching herpes, -when scratching them they become moist. Ulcers bleeding (at night). Fissure in the cicatrix of an old issue. Warts ; itching. Ascites and anasarca. Chilblains ; purple-red. Swelling and indurations of the glands, after contusions.

Conditions

The ailments are worse in the morning (2 and 3 A.M.) and when at rest, than during the day and while exercising. He feels better in the open air than in the room, but the fever in worse in the open air. After taking a walk, faint-like weakness and trembling. Great liability to catch cold after being heated and aversion to the open and cold air and draughts. Aggravation from cold air ; from becoming cold ; when lying on the side. Amelioration from eructations, on getting warm ; in the warm air.

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

Potassium Carbonate. Potassic Carbonate. Salt of Tartar. Salt of Wormwood. Carbonate of Potassium. K 2 CO 3 Solution. Trituration.

Clinical

Amenorrhœa. Anæmia. Asthma. Axilla, perspiration of. Back, aching. Biliousness . Bronchitis. Catarrh. Change of life . Chilblains. Clavus . Cold. Consumption. Cough . Debility. Dropsy. Dysmenorrhœa. Dyspepsia . Ear, inflammation of. Eyes, inflammation of; œdema around. Face, blotches on. Fear. Freckles . Gastralgia. Hæmorrhage. Hæmorrhoids. Hair, affections of. Headache . Heart, affections of. Hip-joint disease . Hydrothorax. Hysteria. Kidneys, affections of. Knee, affections of; white swelling of. Larynx, catarrh of. Leucorrhœa. Liver, affections of . Lumbago. Menorrhagia. Metrorrhagia. Pleurisy. Pleurodynia. Pregnancy, disorders of. Proctalgia. Sciatica . Sleeplessness. Spinal irritation. Stomach, affections of . Throat, sore. Toothache . Typhoid. Urine, frequent passage of . Urticaria. Uterus, cancer of. Vertigo . Wens. Whooping-cough .

Characteristics

Potassium carbonate , sometimes called "Vegetable alkali," exists in all plants, and was originally obtained from the ashes left after burning wood and vegetable structures. Potassium salts play a no less important part in the animal economy. Kali carb . may be regarded as the typical member of the Kali group of homœopathic remedies, though Causticum has also claims on the title. The Potassium salts have more specific relation to the solid tissues than to the fluids of the body; to the blood corpuscles rather than to the blood plasma. The fibrous tissues are particularly affected, the ligament of joints, of the uterus, of the back. It corresponds to conditions in which these tissues are relaxed-joints give way; the back feels as if broken; the patient feels compelled to lie down in the street. Goullon (translation, H. R ., xv. 327) calls attention to the importance of this polychrest in complaints of women, in which it rivals Sepia , differing from the latter in having menstruation "too protracted and recurring too frequently; the pains and troubles occur before the menses. The climacteric flushings of K. ca . are associated with disturbances of the heart. Palpitations are most violent. By quieting these K. ca . often serves as an excellent soporific. In addition to the uterus and heart, lungs, pleura, bronchi, and larynx all come under its action. Chronic laryngeal catarrh Goullon specially mentions as frequently cured by it. He places it in the front rank as a knee remedy. Among the grand characteristics of K. ca ., three stand out above the rest: ( 1 ) Stitching, lancinating pains, also called jerking pains; < during rest, < lying on affected side. ( 2 ) Early morning aggravation: < 2 to 4 a.m. ( 3 ) The occurrence of bag-like swellings over the eyes, between the eyebrows and the upper lids. Relaxation of tissues is a great note of K. ca . It is suited to persons of soft tissues with tendency to be fat. Easy sweating may be placed in the same category, and when there is a combination of "sweat, backache, and weakness," the three, according to Farrington, constitute a grand characteristic. The backaches of K. ca . are very important. The pain often extends downwards to the buttock and even to the knee. Pain from hip to knee (more especially if right sided) has led to the cure of many cases of hip-joint disease. This symptom also led me to make a remarkable cure of another kind. A lady, 73, stout, short, pale, and of very soft fibre, had for four months suffered from "rheumatic pains," and an offensive vaginal discharge. A local practitioner of repute was consulted (the patient lived in the country, and I did not see her till a year or two afterwards) and pronounced it cancer of the womb in an advanced stage, and gave her four months to live. She described to me the pain as being all round the lower abdomen, and a "dull, heavy, depressing, dead pain, commencing at the inner part of the top of the right hip (iliac crest) and extending to the knee." The pain was so severe it made her feel quite sick and faint. The discharge was very offensive, like decaying meat. Great weakness and trembling accompanied the discharge; urine was almost like blood at times, and had a sandy sediment. K. ca . 1m. was given and at once improvement set in. In a few months all the bad symptoms had disappeared and never returned. The patient lived ten years after this. In connection with this case I may mention another. A man had an ulcer of right leg with swelling of ankle, and he complained of waking at 2 a.m. K. ca . 30 cured, but meantime he developed this symptom: "Great weakness of right thigh, as if it would give out when walking." This "giving-out" feeling is very characteristic of the remedy. "Constant backache, the patient feeling all the time that the back and legs must give out." K. ca . corresponds to many cases of lumbago, stitching pains, pulsations; > by pressure and by lying flat on the back. "Weakness, sweat, and backache" appear in many conditions of debility as from loss of fluids; after confinement or abortion (puerperal mania, fever, or spasms). Complaints after coition in males, especially complaints of the eyes. Weary and sleepy during and after eating. Yawns continually. The mental state of K. ca . is one of peevishness and irritability. Easily startled by any noise (especially if unexpected). Fear is prominent; fears to be alone. Intellect impaired, does not care for anything. Indifferent, with bodily exhaustion; when questioned does not know what to answer. The "touchiness" of the remedy is very marked: "Cannot bear to be touched; starts when touched ever so lightly, especially on the feet." K. ca . acts profoundly on the tissues. It causes fatty degeneration of the heart and other muscles. It affects the blood itself as well as the circulation, causing anæmia and hæmorrhages. Throbbing of blood-vessels all over body and to ends of fingers and toes is a marked symptom. Irregularity of heart's action. A peculiar symptom is: sensation as if the heart were suspended by a thread. The digestion is very much disordered; flatulence, distension, constipation. Many symptoms come on when eating: Drowsiness; toothache only when eating. It has the fishbone sensation in the throat, which is part of the general tendency to stitching pains. Another feature is easy choking; food easily gets into windpipe; pain in back when swallowing. The cough has peculiarities in addition to that of time aggravation 2-4 a.m. It is dry, paroxysmal, loosens viscid mucus or pus which must be swallowed. Or spasmodic with gagging or vomiting of ingesta. The expectoration consists of hard, white, or smoky masses, which fly from the throat when coughing. Globules of pus may be contained in it. Hahnemann said that persons suffering from ulceration in the lungs could hardly get well without this antipsoric. I have frequently had occasion to verify its value in such cases. The stitching pains, sweat, and weakness are leading indications, also the locality of the affection. K. ca . is more a right than a left-side medicine. The base of the right lung is more affected than any other part. Goullon says also the apices. K. ca is a remedy often called for in sick-headache. "Violent headaches about the inner temples; violent stitching or jerking pains, on one side of the head or both." One-sided headache with nausea. One case which I cured was > by lying down, > by a tight band round the head. Pressure and drawing in forehead extending into eyes and root of nose. Congestion to head and heat of face often accompany the headaches. "Drowsy whilst eating" is a very characteristic symptom of K. ca . Ide, of Stettin, Germany, has recorded a case (translated by McNeil, Med. Adv ., xxiv. 294) which well illustrates this. A lady, 65, suffered from chronic bronchial catarrh and emphysema. In November, 1886, she had asthmatic complaints, depriving her of sleep, with cough and mucous expectoration difficult to raise. Always when eating she was so weary she fell asleep , and could not finish her meal. After eating still very tired. In the morning passed much flatulence. K. ca. 10 removed the condition in a few days. The following March after a cold there was a recurrence, but without the weariness , and K. ca . failed, whilst Ars . 15 rapidly cured. In the same patient K. ca . manifested its power in another set of symptoms: Toothache alternating with tearing, stitching pain in left breast and under left false ribs. The side pains were < at night, especially in evening as soon as she lay down; < lying down, particularly < lying on right ( i.e ., painless) side. Not influenced by pressure or motion. K. ca . is a chilly medicine. There is great tendency to take cold, and < of symptoms when body temperature is low; aversion to open air. I have often relieved with K. ca . blotchy eruptions of the face which were < in a wind or cold air. Among the notable sensations of the remedy are: Feeling of emptiness in whole body as if it were hollow. Sensation of a lump rolling over and over on coughing; rising from right abdomen up to throat, then back again. Lump in throat. Feeling as if the bed were sinking under her. Pulsative pains and throbbings. Burning sensation and burning pains. K. ca . appears to have alternating symptoms: it has cured a case of toothache which alternated with tearing, stitching pains in left breast and under left false ribs. It has also pulsations in the back alternating with pains in the back. The pains in the side were < evening, on lying down, and especially on lying on right (painless) side ( Med. Adv ., xxiv. 295). The nervous excitability of K. ca . may go as far as pronounced hysteria; sudden shrieking; cannot bear to be touched. Spasms (puerperal convulsions) and paralysis. Twitching of muscles; rigidity of muscles; muscular atony, disposition to easy overlifting. Oppression of breathing accompanies most complaints. Anæmia with great debility, skin watery, milky white. Dropsical affections. Ulcers bleeding at night. K. ca . is suited to the aged, rather obese, lax fibre; to dark-haired persons of lax fibre and inclined to be fat; to diseases after parturition; after loss of fluids. The symptoms are: < At rest; < on lying down (cannot get breath). Unable to remain lying at night, > during the day when moving about; < lying on right side (pain in chest; heart feels suspended to left ribs); < by stooping; > raising head. > Sitting bent forward; > raising head (stitches in forehead). Motion = headache with vertigo; < pain in tumours of scalp; wobbling in stomach; stitches in loins. < By sudden or unguarded motion. Walking > obstruction in nose; and < most other symptoms. Coughing < pain in hæmorrhoids. Debility = desire to lie down. The chief time aggravation is from 2 to 4 a.m., or any time between. In general the symptoms are < in the morning. > By day; < at night. < Evening on lying down. < After midnight. Heat > most symptoms; cold air and open air < . Open air > obstruction of nose. Change of weather and damp weather < . Washing face = nose-bleed. Cold air < stitching pain in right side. Cold and damp = chronic bronchitis. Warm drinks < sweat. Warm applications = pain to move to other places. Drinking cold water > jerking in head; drinking cold-water when overheated = dyspnœa and pyrosis. Hunger = palpitation. Touch < . Pressure < most symptoms; > pain in abdomen; dull stitches in chest; glandular swelling of neck. < From coitus.

Relations

Antidoted by: Camph., Coff., Nit. sp. dulcis. It is complementary to: Carb. v., Phos., Sep., Nit. ac., Nat. m. It follows well: K. sul., Phos., Stan., Bry., Lyc., Nat. m. Is followed well by: Carb. v., Phos., Fluor. ac., Ars., Lyc., Pul., Sep., Sul. Compare: The Kalis, especially Caust. (paresis; respiratory affections; hæmorrhoids; rheumatism); and K. bi. (catarrh with tenacious secretions; wandering and alternating pains; headache; affections of stout persons; dyspepsia). Bry. (sharp pains; bilious affections; but Bry. is < by motion); Chel. (pneumonia of right base); Merc. v. (pneumonia of right base, but Merc. has sweat without > ); Sep. (diseases of women ─ but Sep. has scanty menses, K. ca. too early and profuse; empty feeling, bloating after eating; chronic laryngeal catarrh); Apis and Ars. (puffing of face and eyes); Spi. (stitches in heart); Bellis, Ars., Nux v., Calc., and Sep. (waking early, 3 am.); Ip. (constant nausea); (K. bi.) and Staph ( < after coitus); Ant. t. (capillary bronchitis); Calc. hypophos. (sweat, backache, and weakness ─ very close analogue); Pso. (debility of convalescence; profuse sweat; hopelessness of recovery); Calc. c. (hopelessness of recovery; irritability; chilliness, < from washing); Puls. (erratic pains; amenorrhœa); Berb. (bubbling sensation in back). Phos. ac. (apathy); Hep., Nit. ac., Carb. v., and Arg. n. (fish-bone sensation). Rhus (pain > motion; affections of ligaments) Hamam. (hæmorrhoids). Mag. c. (nervous debility from overstrain) Bry. and Silic. (knee affections). Nat. m. (anæmia; amenorrhœa ─ "K. ca. will bring on the menses when Nat. m., though apparently indicated, fails." Hahn. ─ backache: that of K. ca. is, in general, < lying; that of Nat. m. is > by pressure and lying on back); Arn. c., Graph. (obese persons); Chi., Phos. ac., Pho., and Pso. (complaints from loss of fluids); Ars., Bis., and Lyc. (averse to be alone. ─ Ign., Nux, desire to be alone); Am. c. and Arn. (nose-bleed when washing face); Phos. (fatty degeneration of heart); Lach. (heart as if suspended by a thread).

Causation

Catching cold. Overstrain.

Mind

Sadness with tears. ─ Anxious apprehension and inquietude, esp. about the health, with fear of not being cured. ─ Irresolute, timid, and apprehensive disposition. ─ Fear, in evening, in bed. ─ Peevish humour, discontent and impatience. ─ Dread of labour. ─ Changeable humour, at one time evincing mildness and tranquillity, at another time passion and rage. ─ Tendency to take alarm. ─ Shrieks about imaginary appearances. ─ Becomes easily startled; great tendency to start when touched, esp. on feet. ─ Vexed and irritated mood; trifles vex one; noise is disagreeable. ─ Irascible and passionate humour. ─ Loss of memory. ─ Misapplying words and syllables.

Head

Confusion and dulness in head. ─ Sudden attack of unconsciousness. ─ Dulness of the head; confused, stupid feeling, as after intoxication. ─ Vertigo as if ears were stopped up; with darkness before eyes. ─ Vertigo in morning, in evening, and after a meal, as well as on turning head or body hastily. ─ Vertigo, with tottering. ─ Vertigo, which seems to proceed from stomach. ─ Headache from motion of a carriage, on sneezing, coughing, or in morning. ─ Semi-lateral headache, with nausea, and vomiting, < so as to become insupportable, by slightest movement. ─ Violent headache across the eyes. ─ Pressive headache in the occiput, esp. during a walk, with irritability, or else in forehead with photophobia. ─ Tearing and drawing pains in head. ─ Lancinating headache, chiefly in temples and forehead; < from stooping and moving head, eyes, and lower jaw; > when raising head and from heat. ─ Violent headaches about inner temples. ─ Congestion in head, with throbbing and buzzing. ─ Trembling in head, and sensation as if it contained something movable. (Constant sensation of something loose in head, turning and twisting towards forehead.). ─ The headaches are > by pressing the forehead. ─ Sensation as of a blow in the head, which causes it to incline to one side, with dizziness. ─ Strong tendency to take cold in head, esp. when exposed to a draught after being heated (from it headache or toothache). ─ Painful and purulent tumours in scalp, like beginning blood-boils; more painful from pressure and motion, and less so from external heat; accompanied by itching, as if in bones of head, with great dryness of hair. ─ Wens. ─ Scabby eruption on scalp. ─ Falling off and dryness of hair, esp. on temples, eyebrows, and beard, with violent burning-itching of the scalp in morning, and evening; the scalp oozes if scratched. ─ Perspiration on forehead, in morning. ─ Large, yellowish, and furfuraceous spots on forehead.

Eyes

Pressive and tearing pain in eyes. ─ Sensation of biting, of smarting, of burning, and shootings in eyes. ─ Redness and inflammation of eyes, with pain on reading by candle-light. ─ Swelling of eyes and lids, with difficulty in opening them. ─ Pimples in eyebrows. ─ Swelling (like a bag) between upper eyelids and eyebrows. ─ Excoriation and suppuration in corners of eyes. ─ White of eye red; capillaries injected. ─ Sensation of coldness of eyelids. ─ Agglutination of eyelids, esp. in morning. ─ Lachrymation. ─ Eyes dull and downcast. ─ Propensity to a fixed look. ─ Spots dancing before sight, on reading and on looking into open air. ─ Rainbow colours, spots (blue or green), and sparks before sight. ─ Vivid and painful brightness before eyes, when closed, extending deeply into brain, in evening after lying down. ─ Photophobia. ─ Dazzling of eyes by daylight.

Ears

Shootings in ears, sometimes from within outwards. ─ Inflammatory swelling of ears, with discharge of a yellow pus or of liquid cerumen. ─ Itching and tickling in ears. ─ Redness, heat, and violent itching of external ear. ─ Ulcer in ears. ─ Excoriation and suppuration behind ears. ─ Inflammation and swelling of parotid. ─ Excessive acuteness of hearing, in evening, on lying down. ─ Weak and confused hearing. ─ Dulness of hearing. ─ Singing, tingling, and buzzing in ears. ─ Cracking in ears.

Nose

Swelling of nose, with redness and burning heat. ─ Nose red and covered with pimples. ─ Ulceration of interior of nose. ─ Epistaxis in morning; when washing face. ─ Dull smell. ─ Coryza and stoppage of nose, sometimes with secretion of yellowish green mucus, and constant want of air. ─ Blowing offensive matter from nose. ─ Fluent coryza (with excessive sneezing; pain in back and headache), with secretion of sanguineous mucus. ─ Secretion of purulent mucus from nose. ─ Dryness of nose. ─ Sore, scurfy nostrils.

Face

Colour of face, yellow, or pale and sickly, with sunken eyes, surrounded by a livid circle. ─ Haggard, exhausted look; lifeless expression. ─ Great redness of face, alternately with paleness. ─ Drawing pain in face. ─ Tearing in bones of face. ─ Flushes of face. ─ Bloatedness of face. ─ Eruption of pimples on face, with swelling and redness of cheeks. ─ Tearing stitches in cheeks. ─ Swelling between eyebrows. ─ Pimples on eyebrows. ─ Warts on face. ─ Ephelides. ─ Lips thick and ulcerated. ─ Lips cracked and exfoliating. ─ Cramp-like sensation in the lips. ─ Cramps in jaw. ─ Swelling of lower jaw and sub-maxillary glands.

Teeth

Toothache, only on eating, or in morning on waking; or else excited by cold things (water) in mouth. ─ Teeth painful when touched by, either cold or warm substances. ─ Toothache, with soreness of bones of face, and drawing, jerking, or tearing pains, esp. in evening in bed. ─ Lancinating pains in teeth, with swelling of cheek (with stinging pain). ─ Digging, piercing, pricking, and gnawing in teeth. ─ (Toothache alternating with stitches in l. chest.). ─ Looseness of all teeth. ─ Bad smell from teeth. ─ Inflammatory swelling and ulceration of gums.

Mouth

Bitter taste in mouth. ─ Fetid exhalation from mouth. ─ Sensation of dryness in mouth, with copious accumulation of saliva. ─ Excoriation, with vesicles in interior of mouth and on tongue. ─ Soreness of frænum linguæ. ─ Swelling of tongue, covered with small painful vesicles. ─ Painful pimple on tip of tongue.

Throat

Sore throat, with lancinating pain on swallowing. ─ Deglutition impeded by inertia of muscles of gullet (the food descends very slowly in the œsophagus, and small particles of food easily get into windpipe). ─ Copious accumulation of mucus on palate and in throat; difficult to hawk up or to swallow, with sensation as if a lump of mucus were in throat. ─ Hawking up of mucus. ─ Dryness in posterior part of throat.

Appetite

Bitter or acid taste. ─ Unpleasant taste in mouth, as from derangement of stomach. ─ Putrid, sweetish taste, or as of blood in mouth. ─ Bulimy. ─ Strong desire for sugar or acids. ─ Disgust for brown bread, which lies heavy on stomach. ─ Milk and warm food are unsuitable. ─ During a meal, sleepiness. ─ After a meal, drowsiness, paleness of face, shivering, headache, ill-humour, nausea, sour risings, and pyrosis, colic, inflation of abdomen and flatulency. ─ After taking hot food (pastry or soup), pinchings and uneasiness in abdomen.

Stomach

Frequent risings. ─ Sour risings and regurgitation. ─ Burning acidity rising from stomach, with spasmodic constriction. ─ Feeling in stomach as if cut to pieces. ─ Constant feeling as if stomach were full of water, wobbling on motion. ─ Pressure in stomach like a heaviness after eating. ─ Sensation as of a lump in stomach the size of the fist. ─ Pyrosis. ─ Nausea from mental emotions. ─ Nausea, as if he would faint; also with anxiety. ─ Nausea during pregnancy. ─ Nausea to such a degree as to cause loss of consciousness, sometimes during a meal. ─ Anxious nausea, with inclination to vomit, esp. after a meal, or after mental emotion. ─ Retching in evening (for several evenings). ─ Vomiting of food and acid matter, with prostration of strength, as if about to faint. ─ Nocturnal vomiting of food. ─ Fulness in stomach, esp. after a meal. ─ Pressure on epigastrium. ─ Tension above stomach. ─ Contractive cramps in stomach, renewed by all kinds of food and drink, or else at night, with vomiting. ─ Pinching, digging, and shooting in stomach. ─ Lancinations in epigastrium and in hypochondria, which suspend respiration. ─ Pulsations in epigastrium. ─ Extreme sensitiveness of epigastrium.

Abdomen

Pain in liver, on stooping, as if it were wrenched. ─ Burning pain, aching, and shootings in liver. ─ Pressure and shootings in region of loins. ─ Pains in abdomen, with frequent risings. ─ Pressure on abdomen, esp. on stooping. ─ Tension across the abdomen. ─ Great inflation of abdomen, esp. after a meal. ─ Inquietude and heaviness in abdomen. ─ Abdominal pains, contractive and spasmodic. ─ Colic renewed after each meal. ─ Colic, resembling pains of labour, sometimes with pains in loins. ─ Feeling of coldness, as if a cold fluid passed through intestines; during menses. ─ Lancinations throughout the abdomen. ─ Inertia and coldness in abdomen. ─ Dropsical swelling of abdomen. ─ Drawing and shootings (and painful bloatedness) in groins. ─ Abundant production and incarceration of flatus. ─ Incarceration of flatulence, with colic. ─ Restricted or excessive emission of flatus, sometimes preceded by pressive pain in rectum.

Stool and Anus

Constipation, sometimes every second day. ─ Constipation during menstruation. ─ Constriction of the abdomen and difficult evacuation of fæces of too large a size. ─ Retarded stool from inactivity of rectum. ─ Obstruction from inactivity of bowels, as a want of peristaltic motion; hæmorrhoids. ─ Resultless inclination to evacuate, and scanty evacuation. ─ Stool resembling sheep's dung. ─ Diarrhœa, mostly in evening and at night, with cutting pains and great physical debility. ─ Discharge of mucus, or of blood, during evacuation. ─ White mucus before and during stool. ─ Painless diarrhœa, with rumbling in abdomen. ─ Discharge of teniæ and lumbrici. ─ Anxiety before the evacuation. ─ Itching in anus. ─ Tearing, shooting, incisive, and burning pains in anus (and rectum), esp. after evacuation. ─ Protrusion and distension of hæmorrhoids during stool, with pricking and burning. ─ Protrusion of hæmorrhoids during micturition, emitting first blood, afterwards white mucus. ─ Inflammation, soreness, stitches, and tingling, as from ascarides, in hæmorrhoids. ─ Hæmorrhoidal pimples in anus, painful, bleeding, and with shooting pain. ─ Sensation of red-hot poker being thrust up rectum, temporarily > by sitting in cold water. ─ Excoriation and pustulous eruption in anus. ─ Stitching, pressing proctalgia (during pregnancy).

Urinary Organs

Frequent want to make water, and scanty emission of fiery urine. ─ The urine is discharged slowly. ─ After micturition, discharge of prostatic fluid. ─ Urine pale greenish; turbid. ─ Frequent emission of urine, day and night. ─ Incisive pains in bladder, from r. to l. ─ Burning sensation in urethra, esp. on (and after) making water.

Male Sexual Organs

Tension, tearing, and pulling in glans and in penis. ─ Itching and pain, as from a bruise in scrotum. ─ Hot swelling of testes and spermatic cord. ─ Excessive increase or absence of sexual desire. ─ Repugnance to coition. ─ Want of erections, or too frequent and painful erections. ─ Absence of, or immoderate pollutions. ─ Pollutions with voluptuous dreams. ─ After coition and pollutions, weakness of body, but esp. of eyes.

Female Sexual Organs

Repugnance to coition in women. ─ During coition, pinching and pain, as of excoriation, in vagina. ─ Constant sensation of bearing down. ─ Burning pain and shootings in vulva. ─ Erosion, itching, and gnawing in genital parts, and in interior of parts. ─ Difficult first menstruation. ─ Catamenia premature, or too weak. ─ Suppression of catamenia. ─ Suppression of menses, with anasarca and ascites. ─ Hæmorrhage of pregnant women (clots of coagulated blood). ─ Corrosive menstrual flux. ─ During catamenia (the menstrual blood is acrid) itching eruption, and excoriation, between thighs. ─ Gastric symptoms, and agitated and anxious sleep during catamenia. ─ During menses: (morning) headache; cutting pain in abdomen; pain in small of back, like a weight: stitches in ears; coryza; itching of whole body. ─ Leucorrhœa, sometimes with violent pains in loins, and pains like those of labour (extending from back to uterus). ─ Yellowish leucorrhœa, with itching and sensation of burning in vulva. ─ (Uterine cancer with pain round loins extending down r. thigh to knee.). ─ Tearing stitches in breasts on flow of milk. ─ During pregnancy: sickness (only during a walk) without vomiting, with feeling as if she could lie down and die; ─ pulsation of arteries, even down to tips of toes; hollow feeling in whole body; heavy broken-down feeling, only with the greatest effort that any exertion can be made; ─ back aches so badly while walking she could lie-down in the street; ─ pressing, forcing pains in small of back as if heavy weight came into pelvis, low down; also stitching, pressing proctalgia. ─ Impending abortion with pains from back into buttocks and thighs; discharge of Clots (2nd and 3rd month). ─ Weakness after abortion. ─ Labour pains insufficient; violent headache, wants back pressed; bearing-down from back into pelvis. ─ False pains; sharp cutting pains across loins, or passing off down buttocks, hindering labour; pulse weak. ─ Pains stitching or shooting. ─ Chills after delivery. ─ Puerperal fever; intense thirst. ─ After confinement, hæmorrhage, hæmorrhoids, peritonitis. ─ Hæmorrhage a week after labour.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness and roughness in throat, with violent sneezing. ─ Aphonia (with violent sneezing). ─ Easy choking. ─ Sensation as of a plug in larynx. ─ Cough on moving arm (when playing the violin). ─ Cough, excited by a tickling. ─ Dry cough, esp. at night, and in evening; in morning with expectoration. ─ Night cough; < from 3 to 4 a.m. ─ Cramp-like cough, with inclination to vomit, and vomiting, esp. in morning. ─ Shootings in throat, or chest, while coughing. ─ Expectoration: difficult; or, small round lumps come flying from mouth without effort. ─ Spasmodic cough, in short but frequently returning attacks, caused by a tickling in the throat and larynx; during morning and day cough is loose, but the yellow pus and tough mucus has to be swallowed again. ─ Cough with sourish expectoration, or of blood-streaked mucus, or of pus. ─ During cough, rough pain in larynx; stinging in throat; stitches in r. side of chest (lower part); sparks dart from eyes; asthma. ─ Whooping-cough (with inflammation of lungs; with swelling between upper eyelid and eyebrows, and < from 3 to 4 a.m.).

Chest

Difficult respiration. ─ Shortness of breath in morning. ─ Respiration impeded on walking quickly, or in morning. ─ Stitches in sternum and r. side of chest through to back, when taking an inspiration. ─ Tearing in sides of chest. ─ Spasmodic asthma (in the morning); > by sitting up and bending forward, resting head on knees). ─ Anxious oppression at chest. ─ Obstructed respiration awakes him at night. ─ Wheezing in chest. ─ Oppression at chest, as from hydrothorax. ─ Pain in chest when speaking. ─ Cramp in chest, sometimes on coughing. ─ Sensation in chest as if heart were compressed. ─ Pressure, burning pain, and shootings in chest, sometimes on breathing. ─ Inflammation of lungs (and liver) with stitches in chest (r. side). ─ Suppuration of lungs; abscesses of lungs. ─ Weakness and faintness in chest from walking fast. ─ Small pimples on chest and back. ─ Incisive pains in chest.

Heart

Palpitation of heart (sometimes with anguish), esp. in morning on waking, with ebullition of blood. ─ Frequent and violent palpitation; with anxiety. ─ Palpitation when he becomes hungry. ─ Frequent intermissions of beats of heart. ─ Burning in region of heart. ─ Crampy pain in region of heart. ─ Stitches about heart and through to scapula. ─ Pinching pain in or by heart, as if heart were hanging by tightly drawn bands; < on deep inspiration, on coughing; not noticed on motion of body. ─ On lying on r. side, heart feels suspended to l. ribs. ─ Feels pulse over whole body to tips of toes. ─ Pulse slow.

Neck and Back

Stiffness between scapulæ. ─ Dull pain, like hot water, between scapulæ. ─ Stiffness of nape of neck. ─ Weakness of muscles of neck. ─ Goître. ─ Hard swelling of axillary glands and of those of neck. ─ Sweat under armpits. ─ Pains in loins; also after a fall. ─ Pain, as from a bruise in back, during repose. ─ Drawing pains in back, which often proceed from loins. ─ Burning, tearing near r. side of spine, above small of back. ─ Sharp stitching pains awaken him 3 a.m., he must get up and walk about; pains shoot from loins into nates. ─ Stitching and shooting pains in back, shooting down into gluteal region or hips. ─ Stitches in kidneys. ─ Back aches as if broken. ─ Pain across sacrum like labour-pains; feeling of tightening of skin of lower abdomen; feeling of weight in abdomen on walking, and esp. on standing. ─ Pain in small of back as from flatulent distension, morning in bed, with feeling as if bubbles accumulated at small of back, with urgent desire for stool, all of which disappeared after passing wind. ─ Violent constant drawing in small of back, alternating with pulsations in it, only > when lying. ─ Pain as if broken on moving about. ─ Bruised pain in back only during rest. ─ Feeling in morning as if small of back were pressed inward from both sides. ─ Pressure in region of both kidneys. ─ Gnawing in coccyx.

Upper Limbs

Swelling of shoulder, with pain. ─ Swelling and sore pain of axillary glands. ─ Cracking in shoulder-joint when moving or raising arm. ─ Pain, as from blows and bruises, under r. shoulder-joint, esp. when moving and touching it. ─ Tearing in l. shoulder-joint. ─ Pressure on shoulder. ─ Tension, tearing, pulling, in muscles and joints of shoulders, arms, hands, and fingers. ─ Cold stiffness and numbness of arms, esp. in the cold, or after violent exercise. ─ Want of energy in arms and hands, esp. in morning in bed. ─ Frequent startings in arms. ─ Stiffness in joint of elbow. ─ Paralytic pain in wrist. ─ Shootings in wrist and fingers during movement. ─ Trembling of hands when writing. ─ Coldness of hands. ─ Skin of hands rough and cracked. ─ Torpor and numbness in extremities of fingers. ─ Burning pain in extremities of fingers. ─ Gnawing vesicles on fingers. ─ Startings in fingers when sewing. ─ Tearing between thumb and index finger.

Lower Limbs

Acute pullings (rheumatic pains), esp. at night, in joints and bones of hips, legs, feet, and toes. ─ The limbs fall asleep while lying. ─ Numbness and great inclination of whole r. limb to fall asleep, esp. lower leg. ─ Stitches in l. hip-joint while standing. ─ Tearing in hips and knees even while sitting. ─ Paralysis of thighs. ─ Cramp in r. thigh and calf. ─ Stiff, cramped feeling in both calves, lasting all day and coming on when walking in morning (Cooper ─ from Potash water.). ─ Tearing in and on nates not far from hip-joint. ─ Great weakness of r. thigh, feeling as if it would give way when walking. ─ Difficulty in knees on going up or downstairs. ─ Dull pains in side of knee, walking or extending leg. ─ Frequent tearing in knees. ─ Pressive pullings and tearings in legs. ─ Jerking of muscles of buttocks and thighs. ─ Burning pain and lancinations in legs and feet. ─ Uneasiness (restlessness) in legs in evening. ─ Torpor and numbness of legs. ─ Crawling shuddering on tibia. ─ Swelling of legs and feet. ─ Swelling and redness of soles. ─ Stiffness of joint of foot. ─ Shootings in joints of foot. ─ Cold feet, even at night in bed. ─ Numbness of feet after a meal. ─ Fetid perspiration on feet. ─ Burning pain and shootings (red chilblains on toes) in ball of great toe. ─ Corns on feet, painful when touched. ─ Stitches in the painful and sensitive corns. ─ Sensation as if nail of big toe would grow into flesh. ─ Tips of toes very painful when walking.

Generalities

Affections in general, occurring in r. hypochondriac region; r. abdominal ring; l. chest; l. upper extremity; external and internal ears; of inner surface of liver; inner region of kidneys; lower part of chest; shoulder; shoulder-joint; elbow and elbow-joint; hollow of elbow; wrist-joint; big toe; tips of toes; joints of legs in general; joints of toes. ─ Disgust of food in general. ─ Inflammatory swelling of the part, with characteristic (stitching or jerking) pains. ─ Dryness of the skin. ─ Painful sensibility of extremities in whatever position they are placed. ─ Pressive pains in joints. ─ Spasmodic contraction of some parts. ─ Drawing, tearing, rheumatic pains in limbs, esp. during repose, with swelling of the parts affected. ─ Rheumatic pains in back, chest, shoulders, and arms, < on moving them. ─ Shooting pains in joints, muscles, and internal organs. ─ Swelling and hardness of glands. ─ Anæmia, with great debility; skin watery, milky white; muscles weakened, esp. heart; hence weak pulse is a general characteristic. ─ Dropsical affections of internal organs, or of whole skin of body. ─ The pains often manifest themselves towards 2 a.m., and are then stronger than by day during movement. ─ Shiverings immediately after pains. ─ Remaining in open air greatly < many of the symptoms (esp. the febrile), while some others are > by it. ─ Hectic fever. ─ Burning at various places under the skin. ─ Spasmodic attacks and convulsive startings of limbs and muscles. ─ Nocturnal epileptic fits. ─ Tendency to suffer a strain in loins. ─ Tendency in limbs to become numbed, when lying down. ─ Paralysis. ─ Dropsical affections and paralysis of old persons. ─ General sensation of emptiness in whole body, as if it were hollow. ─ Heaviness and indolence. ─ Weakness, as if on the point of losing consciousness, and trembling, esp. after a walk. ─ A short walk fatigues much. ─ Attacks of weakness with nausea, sensation of heat and lassitude in pit of stomach, vertigo, and dizziness. ─ Violent ebullition of blood, with throbbing in all arteries. ─ Excessive dread of open air and of currents of air. ─ Great tendency to take cold, esp. after heating exercise.

Skin

Painful sensibility of skin, as if it were ulcerated, when pressing on it. ─ Skin dry, with obstructed perspiration. ─ Sensation of burning, or burning and lancinating itching, in skin. ─ Itching, burning, yellow, or red spots on body (over abdomen and around nipples), sometimes with oozing after being scratched. ─ Miliary nettle-rash. ─ Corrosive vesicles. ─ Chilblains of a reddish blue. ─ Warts. ─ Tetters. ─ Bleeding of ulcers, esp. at night. ─ Fissure in cicatrix of an old issue. ─ Ascites and anasarca. ─ Swelling and induration of glands, after contusions.

Sleep

Drowsiness and yawning. ─ Great drowsiness during day and early in evening. ─ Falls asleep while eating. ─ Half-sleep at night. ─ Tardy sleep. ─ During sleep, shuddering, tears, talking, and starts with fright. ─ Gnashing of teeth while asleep. ─ Agitated sleep, with frequent, anxious, and frightful dreams. ─ Dreams of robbers, death, danger, serpents, sickness, spectres, devils, &c. ─ Fits of anguish at night, gastric sufferings, pains in stomach and precordial region, colic, flatulency, diarrhœa, frequent erections and pollutions, asthmatic sufferings, nightmare and cramps in calves of legs. ─ Arrest of breath rouses him from sleep at night. ─ At night l. leg and r. arm go to sleep. ─ Waking too early, particularly at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning; sleepiness in evening; sleeplessness after midnight; sleeplessness in general.

Fever

Pulse very variable; frequently more rapid in morning than in evening; strong pulsations in arteries. ─ Chilliness generally in morning. ─ Shivering in evening, with thirst, often accompanied by toothache. ─ The Chilliness in evening is > near warm stove and after lying down. ─ Internal heat with external chilliness. ─ Morning perspiration. ─ Perspiration more on upper part of body and < by warm drinks. ─ Perspiration is fetid or smells sour. ─ Intermittent fever; constant chilliness, with violent thirst from internal heat; hot hands; loathing of food. ─ Long yawning, with heat; pain in chest and head; pulsations in abdomen, 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ─ Chills and heat alternate in evening, followed by perspiration during night. ─ Evening fever; first, chilliness with thirst (for one hour), then heat without thirst, accompanied by violent, fluent coryza; afterwards slight perspiration with sound sleep. ─ Chill and fever, with oppression of breathing, constriction of chest; pain in region of liver; most of the thirst during chill. ─ Intermittent fevers, with whooping-cough. ─ Shivering immediately after pains. ─ Frequent shuddering during day. ─ Heat in morning, in bed, with pains in loins and chest. ─ Want of perspiration and inability to perspire, or else great tendency to perspire during intellectual labour, or during a walk. ─ Nocturnal sweats, every night.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

Mind

Sudden attack of unconsciousness.
Cannot express herself ; seems at a loss to know how to begin to say or do what she wishes. θ Puerperal mania.
Absentminded.
Dull, confused, stupid, as after intoxication.
Imagines seeing birds flying in room ; he tries to catch them.
Great aversion to being alone.
Dread of labor.
Weeps much.
Alternating mood, at one time good and quiet, at another excited and angry at trifles ; constantly in antagonism with herself ; frequently hopeful, frequently despondent ; frets about everything ; peevish, impatient, contented with nothing. θ Melancholia.
Timid and apprehensive of future and about her disease.
Fear of being alone ; fears she will die.
Anxiety with fear.
Despondency in open air ; disappears on entering house.
Peevish, irritable ; noise is disagreeable ; easily startled, especially if touched ; intolerance of human voice.
Irascible and passionate.
Very easily frightened ; shrieks about imaginary appearances ; starts when touched.
Is frightened and cries out whenever he is touched lightly on his feet.
Delirium in the night. θ Pleurisy.

Sensorium

Giddiness, nausea, pressure in stomach.
Vertigo : when rapidly turning head or body ; evening and morning ; on turning around ; as if proceeding from stomach ; loss of consciousness ; frequent dulness of head as after intoxication, and as if ears were stopped up, with nausea almost unto
vomiting ; when walking ; as if head was too light, must take hold on something ; and vomiting ; after eating, with heat in head, red face, darkness before eyes ; sometimes one cheek hot the other cold ; must lie down as soon as attack comes on, otherwise he is
thrown down ; before he falls he has stitching pain in forehead, root of nose and in eyes ; attacks several times a day.

Inner head

Pressure and drawing tearing in forehead, extending into eyes and root of nose.
Pressure in forehead, with photophobia.
Pressive headache in forehead, in afternoon, while walking, with peevishness.
(In sick :) Sensation in forehead as of a hot body having descended into it when stooping.
Drawing in forehead, in forenoon and at midnight.
Pressure and tension in forehead and eyes.
Pressing in front of head and temples, extending into eyes, with heat in face and head. θ Sick headache. θ Blepharitis.
θ Catarrhal fever.
Stitches in forehead and temples, < stooping, moving head, eyes or jaw ; > raising head and from heat.
Stitches into eyes and root of nose : with catarrh ; before falling down with vertigo.
Pinching and tearing pain in left temple at intervals.
One-sided headache, with nausea.
Tearing drawing in left half of head.
Constant sensation of something loose in head, turning and twisting toward forehead.
Congestion to head, with throbbing and humming.
Congestion of blood to head, with intoxication arising from it.
Congestive and catarrhal headaches, with dry, hard cough.
Pressive headache.
Headache : from riding in a carriage ; from coughing or sneezing ; on awaking from sleep ; from coryza ; with nausea ; with toothache ; with backache ; with intermittent ; with great heaviness during menses.
Jerking in head from behind forward ; dark before eyes, unconscious ; > from drink of cold water ; remains weak and nauseated.
Pressing pain in back of head.
Aching in occiput, toward nape of neck, > in open air.
Morning headache with vertigo, aching and stitches in occiput, felt only during motion ; sharp, shooting pains from upper dorsal spine into occiput.
(In sick :) Violent pressure over whole skull, down nape of neck, throbbing in head and whole body < by slightest contact, and increasing in paroxysms with violent nausea and vomiting of bile.

Outer head

Liability of head to take cold from a draft, after being heated causing headache or toothache.
Painful tumors on scalp, like blood boils ; < from pressure and motion, > from heat ; itching as if in bones.
Wens on scalp.
Hair dry, brittle, falling off, mostly from temples, eye-brows and beard ; scalp itches and burns morning and evening ; oozes if scratched. θ Brain disease of children.
Great dryness of hair after nervous fevers.
Perspiration on forehead in morning.

Sight and eyes

Bright sparks, blue or green spots before eyes.
While reading or looking at a bright light : muscæ volitantes ; sharp, stitches ; fog before eyes.
Weakness of vision.
Eyes weak : after coition ; after abortion ; after measles.
Inclination to stare.
Painful sensitiveness of eyes to daylight ; photophobia.
Lachrymation, shunning light ; pain deep in eyes.
Small round ulcers on cornea with no photophobia.
Pannus, always < after a seminal emission.
Asthenopia with sticking and drawing together of lids upon looking steadily at any object ; burning, pressing pain in eyes ; borders of lids red and swollen ; palpebral fissure narrowed and palpebral conjunctiva hyperemic ; constant photophobia, compelled to keep eyes
closed most of the time ; < after using ; slight rheumatism.
Milky, whitish spot near middle of right cornea ; vessels of conjunctiva injected ; sees with right eye as if through fog or smoke ; when looking toward light lachrymation ; dizziness when stooping ; cannot fix sight of any
object steadily without water running from eyes and feeling of dizziness ; artificial light appears to have rays all around it ; eye symptoms < morning ; bloating after meals ; flatulency ; obstinate constipation and stools too large in size ; cracking now
and then in right ear ; expectoration of phlegm in morning with a salty taste. θ Conjunctivitis and leucoma.
Redness of white of eyes, with many vessels in it.
Smarting, burning, biting, stitching pain in eye.
Sharp tearing in right orbit and eye at night.
Stitches in middle of eye.
Pressure in and above eyes.
Eyes painful on reading, as if pressed inward.
Corners of eyes ulcerate.
Soreness of external canthus, with burning pain.
Eyelids swollen ; edges and canthi red ; caruncula red and swollen ; lachrymation and pain from bright light ; pressing pain in front of head and temples into eyes, with heat in face and head ; loss of appetite ; after eating pressure in stomach ;
belching ; nausea and emptiness in stomach ; gagging and vomiting up slime ; pressure and anxious feeling in chest ; chilliness ; cold feet ; evening fever, with thirst ; weariness and heaviness in limbs ; face pale, dirty grey ; restless
sleep ; great deal of yawning through day. θ Blepharitis.
Lids swollen and inflamed ; agglutinated, especially mornings.
Lids red, swollen ; tarsi worse.
Eyelids, swollen, also left check and upper lip.
Lips of right eye inflamed, pain in eyes and inability to read.
Puffiness ; swelling between eyebrows lids, like a sac.
Enormous bag-like swellings under eyes. θ Erysipelas.
Œdema of lids, especially if accompanied by sticking pains and heart indications.
Eyes sunken.
Sensation of coldness in lids.

Hearing and ears

Ringing, roaring, whizzing, singing, cracking noises in ears.
Headache with noises in ear after a cold drink.
Hearing impaired, dull. θ Rheumatism.
Tearing in ears.
Stitches from within outward ; also with drawing behind ears ; otitis.
Face pale, sometimes flushed ; head and right ear hot ; pain stitch-like, drawing, especially behind ear ; cheek swollen ; little appetite ; mouth dry ; high fever with dizziness ; chilliness, shuddering, some thirst but little desire to drink ;
anxiety in chest ; pulse accelerated, uneven ; weary in all the limbs.
Violent itching or tickling in ears.
Redness and heat of outer ear.
Right ear hot, left pale and cold. θ Gastritis.
Discharge of yellow liquid cerumen or pus.
Parotids, especially right, inflamed, swollen, hard.

Smell and nose

Dull sense of smell, especially from catarrh.
Fluent coryza ; excessive sneezing ; pain in back, headache and lassitude.
Violent fluent coryza in evening, with frequent sneezing and headache, rough voice.
Dry coryza, with loss of voice or hoarseness ; mucus in throat, or sensation of a lump.
Dryness or stoppage of nose.
Obstruction of nose, making breathing through nostrils impossible ; > when walking in open air, returns in room ; itching in nose ; fetid, yellow green discharge from one nostril.
Coryza : thick yellowish discharge with great lassitude ; purulent, fetid discharge from one nostril ; yellow, green or bloody mucus ; sore, crusty nostrils ; complete closure of nostrils.
Burning in nose ; ulcerated nostrils ; bloody, red nostrils every morning ; external nose red, swollen ; stinging pains.
Sore nose ; mucous membrane swollen, covered with pimples and brown crusts ; tip and wings red, swollen, with sore, stinging pain ; headache ; pain in stomach ; nausea ; belching ; pulsation in abdomen ; pain in limbs.
Nose thick and red.
Nose swollen, hard, red from tip to root.
Alæ nasi red, swollen, suppurating, covered with yellow and grey crusts ; burning pain. θ Stricture of œsophagus.
Frequent bleeding of nose.
Nosebleed : when washing face ; every morning at 9.
Itching in nose.

Upper face

Paleness of face after a meal.
Face : red and hot ; one cheek hot, the other cold ; purple, bloated ; dark red during cough, otherwise pale ; pale, with weakness ; sickly ; with pale lips ; sallow ; grey ; yellow ; bloated, in morning.
Swelling of face, especially over eyes.
Stinging in cheeks ; tearing stitches from a molar into forehead, eyes and temples.
Drawing pain in face.
Pimples on face and eyebrows, with redness and swelling.
Freckles ; light brown spots ; old warts ; papulous eruptions.

Lower face

Upper lip swollen ; bleeding rhagades.
Scurf upon upper lip.
Dry lips. θ Sick headache.
Lips : peel, chap, swell or ulcerate.
Itching on chin.
Hard swelling of submaxillary glands.
Swelling of lower jaw, with looseness of teeth and enlarged submaxillary glands.

Teeth and gums

Toothache, tearing, lancinating, with pains in facial bones.
Stitch pain and tearing from new molar into temple, front of head and eye ; dizzy heaviness of head ; bad alkaline smell from mouth ; constant chilliness ; dry skin, can't perspire ; < from chewing. θ Toothache.
Stitches in teeth, with swelling of cheeks.
Pressive toothache in root of last hollow back tooth in evening.
Drawing toothache as soon as she gets into bed in evening, not during day.
Boring, pressive toothache, always after dinner, as if something go into tooth.
Toothache only when eating ; throbbing ; < when touched by anything cold or warm.
Teeth are loose.
Bad smell from teeth.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste bitter ; flat.
Tongue : white, with bad taste ; after cold drinks ; pale, greyish, in dyspepsia ; coated grey, with sick headache.
Tongue swollen, covered with vesicles, tip burns as if raw, frenum sore.
Burning on tip of tongue, as if it was raw or covered with blisters.
Soreness of tip of tongue.
Painful pimple on tip of tongue.

Inner mouth

Bad alkaline smell from mouth (toothache) ; smell like old cheese (scarlatina).
Foul taste in mouth ; very slimy mouth.
Much saliva constantly in mouth.
Mouth dry : with increased saliva, in otitis ; with stricture of œsophagus ; in gastritis.
Dryness in mouth, without thirst, in evening.
Vesicles, painful, burning, all over inner mouth.
Sticking and biting in posterior portion of palate.
Chronic catarrhal inflammation of mouth and fauces.

Palate and throat

Sticking pain in pharynx, as if a fish bone was sticking in it, if he becomes cold.
Much mucus in fauces, which she is constantly obliged to remove by hawking ; sharp stitches in eyes while reading and sewing.
Tenacious mucus in fauces and posterior of pharynx, mornings ; difficult to hawk up ; sensation as of a lump.
Scraping in throat, it feels dry, parched and rough.
Throat rough, with cough.
Crawling in throat, causing hemming and coughing, and a feeling of tightly adhering phlegm.
Throat feels as if squeezed, as if lungs came into throat.
Sensation as if a stick extended from throat to left side of abdomen, as if stick had a ball on each end.
Difficult swallowing ; food descends œsophagus slowly and small particles of food easily get into windpipe.
Stinging when swallowing ; frequent desire to swallow saliva, but frequently cannot, causing a choking.
Pain in back when swallowing.
When swallowing, food remains half way, with gagging and vomiting. θ Stricture of œsophagus.
Pain in throat ; dryness and sensation of something hard in swallowing ; pain extended to stomach, burning, stitching, but only felt during deglutition ; finally pain concentrated in centre of chest, where, in a small space, deglutition of food found na impediment, and
remained fast, till it passed after a while with excruciating pain, followed by rush of blood to head, vomituritio and nausea ; when swallowing fluid, but especially solid food, pressing, tensive pain at a point of chest, with sensation of a hard body preventing food from reaching
stomach ; simultaneously, burning, stitching pain in back ; three corresponding vertebræ always painful, and patient shrieks when even slightly touched there ; cannot sleep on back during night ; restless sleep, after midnight ; dry lips ; dry mouth and
throat ; tongue coated whitish grey ; severe habitual headache ; pressing as of a stone, in forehead and vertex, every morning, with vertigo.
Pointed, greyish yellow complexion ; dull eyes, lids glued together in morning ; swelling of nose, hard, red, from top to root, on tip, red, elevated ; ulcerated nostrils, covered with yellowish brown crusts, with burning pains.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

No appetite ; disgust for food, or ravenous appetite.
Intense thirst.
Desire : for acids ; for sugar and sweets.
Aversion to food, especially meat ; it has a good taste when he eats, yet he does not eat much.
Aversion to rye bread.

Eating and drinking

When eating : particles of food easily get into windpipe ; toothache.
Eating or drinking : < cough after measles.
During eating : sleepy.
After eating : burning from stomach to throat ; colic renewed ; abdomen, distended ; pressure and fulness in stomach ; stomach replete, especially after soup or coffee ; sour eructations ; nausea, faintness, pressure in stomach ang gagging,
with palpitation.
Wants to eat frequently on account of gone feeling in stomach, but least food oppresses her. θ Sick headache.
When hungry, feels anxious, nauseated, nervous, tingling ; cough and palpitation > after breakfast.
Milk and warm food disagree.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Eructations sour ; frequent in morning.
Uprisings of food and acids, following great uneasiness starting from pit of stomach.
Uprising of water from stomach, much of which she expectorates.
Nausea : and loathing ; from emotions ; with anxiety and faintness ; after a meal ; on every inward emotion ; during pregnancy.
Sick during a walk, no vomiting, feels as if she must lie down and die ; pregnancy.
Retching, vomiting of ingesta and slime ; sour.
Vomiting of food and acids, with nausea.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Great sensitiveness of epigastric region externally.
Throbbing in epigastric region, which is painful to touch.
Throbbing in pit of stomach, like a violent palpitation.
Emptiness and gone feeling in pit of stomach.
Stitches in pit of stomach ; anxiety.
Pit of stomach swollen, tense, sensitive to touch.
Swollen feeling about whole epigastric region.
Painful sensation of emptiness in stomach, and after eating ever so little great feeling of fulness and pressure, which soon gives way to sensation of goneness ; burning after eating, and rising from stomach to throat.
Stomach distended, sensitive ; feels as if it would burst ; excessive flatulency ; everything she eats or drinks appears to be converted into gas.
Swelling of stomach and abdomen.
Constant feeling as if stomach was full of water.
Pressure in stomach like a heaviness, after eating.
Attacks of pressure in stomach, extending up into chest.
Burning acidity rising from stomach, with some spasmodic constriction.
A feeling in stomach as if cut to pieces.
Violent throbbing and cutting in stomach.
Digging in stomach.
Pain in great cul de sac radiating to chest, to back and extremities ; pains in back and legs after eating.
Pressing, tensive pain, awakens at 2 A. M.
Stomach sore externally to pressure.
Severe cutting, lancinating pains in pit of stomach, < night, and especially after midnight ; must lean forward ; mouth, throat and lips dry at night ; rhagades on lips ; thirst off and on ; pulse 100 ; constipation, discharges painful, or diarrhœa ;
sensitive spot in gastric region on pressure. θ Gastralgia.
Pain in stomach, < stooping ; pit of stomach bloated, tense, hard and sensitive to touch ; eats little, and even this causes pressure in stomach ; stool dry ; urine red, three times in night, the more the pressure the less it flows ; chilliness all the
time ; cold hands and feet, and paleness of face. θ Gastricism.
Severe cardialgia, stomach not tolerating least amount of food ; vomiting and fainting ; continual severe pressure, bloatedness of stomach, in pit and around lower edge or ribs, < from motion ; pressure from tea and milk, which is the only food she can take ;
eructations ; vomiturition ; pressure in the chest and back ; pains in the sacrum ; horripilations ; constant inclination to urinate ; no sleep.
Headache, pressing, tense, from occiput to forehead, beginning in morning after a restless sleep full of dreams, continuing more or less during day, with congestion to head ; dim eyes and blue eyelids ; at same time much nausea ; pressure in stomach, < after
eating ; aversion to food ; sensation of bloatedness and fulness of abdomen ; beating in epigastrium ; a few mouthfuls, satisfy her, food causing fulness and bloatedness, with yawning ; eructations ; congestions ; tongue coated white ; urine pale,
yellow, muddy ; chilliness ; malaise ; cold feet ; melancholia ; buzzing in ears ; stitches in chest and back ; headache < during menses. θ Cardialgia and
headache.
After sleepless night headache with vertigo ; pressure, tension in forehead and eyes ; greyish coated tongue ; thirst, dry lips, and total aversion to food ; fulness in stomach and nausea ; respiration difficult, anxious ; features pale, pointed ; eyes
sunken ; horripilations and chilliness ; sometimes heat in head ; no sleep ; sensitive and irritable ; hands and feet cold.
Emptiness in stomach with desire to eat ; after eating lightest kind of food, nausea, gagging and vomiting ; throbbing in pit of stomach, almost taking her breath, with constant yawning ; stool dry ; stomach bloated, tense and painful to pressure ; awakens early
in morning with headache and dizziness, and feels nauseated at sight of food.
Pit of stomach swollen, tense, sensitive to touch ; deep in that region is felt a lump as large as a fist, quite sensitive to pressure ; feet cold and œdematous ; loss of appetite ; cough with anxiousness ; feels empty, gone in pit of stomach, but eating causes
fulness, heaviness, tension in pit of stomach with difficult breathing ; nausea with yawning, and throbbing in precordial region ; stool torpid, dry ; palpitation of heart, ebullition with heat from abdomen to head ; pulse weak and uneven, now quick, now slow ; pain
in back and small of back ; weary in limbs ; chilliness all day ; restless sleep.
Pressure and heaviness in stomach and chest, < in damp weather ; desire to eat frequently, on account of sensation of goneness in stomach, but least food oppresses her, and the first morsel produces nausea, vomiturition and vomiting, followed again by sensation of emptiness and
goneness in stomach ; palpitations which nearly take her breath away ; must yawn continually, so that tears run from eyes ; stool dry ; must get up several times during night to pass urine, which is pale, but muddy, as if mixed with dust ; abdomen bloated, especially
at pit, and painful to pressure, so that she hardly can bear pressure of clothing ; takes a long while, in evening, to fall asleep, but then sleeps quietly ; in morning, awakes with headache, vertigo, and even sight of food produces nausea.
Burning, pressure and aching in pit of stomach, extending over chest to pit of throat ; after eating, cutting in l. side of stomach, and very painful grasping, extending over chest ; in middle of chest feeling of a hard ball, with great pressure, extending to back ;
gulping up of phlegm relieves, but pain soon returns, with heavy beating in pit of stomach ; frequent stitch pains and tearing in limbs ; heat and ebullitions towards head ; frequent chilliness and shuddering ; cough < evening and morning, with greyish, greenish, lumpy
expectoration ; pulse small.
Everything she eats produces continual pressure ; tension in stomach and pit of stomach ; small portions of coffee or weak soup fill her up, with eructations ; nausea and vomiting ; frequent headache and toothache ; hot flashes, with abdominal pulsations ;
vertigo ; continual chilliness ; cold feet ; internal chilliness, with constant inclination to micturate, but urine flows slowly and causes a burning sensation ; stool dry, retarded ; epigastrium bloated, tense, at pit hard and painful to least touch ;
respiration heavy, oppressed, especially when walking ; when stooping, pain at pit of stomach <, respiration more oppressed ; pain frequently moves to back ; features pale, œdematous around eyes ; sleep restless and dreamy ; skin dry ; is obliged to keep in
bed.
Woman, æt. 35, after childbed, pressing, tensive pain in pit of stomach, wakening out of sleep about two or three o'clock A. M. ; empty feeling in stomach ; little eating or drinking causes fulness and pressure in stomach ; lathoing, gagging, vomiting ; pressure
spreads to left ribs, to liver and into back ; is attended with belching, nausea, pressing pain in forepart of head into eyes, and chilliness and shuddering ; face pale ; eyelids swollen ; tongue pale greyish ; stomach bloated and hard, painful to pressure ;
pulse weak, uneven.
Boy, æt. 16, has gradually lost his appetite ; all food he likes causes nausea ; frequently, empty gone feeling in stomach ; dryness of mouth ; dry stool ; turbid urine ; face pale ; eyes dim ; pressure in front of head and eyes, with heat in head
and flashes of heat ; right ear hot ; left ear pale and cold ; after washing in cold water, red spots on face, evening and morning dry cough with burning in chest ; feels week and constantly chilly, now and then stitch pains in limbs and about ribs ; eruption of
vesicles on back and thighs, which itch greatly in evening ; weakness of sight since measles ; a fog before eyes when reading.
A boy, æt. 11, vertigo, nausea, vomiting ; after every meal has vertigo, pain in forehead, heat of head, redness of face, dimness of vision ; cheeks, ears and forehead red, eyes surrounded by rings and sunk in ; one cheek often hot, the other cold ; if he does not at
once lie down he gets such severe vertigo that everything seems to be whirling round, and even if he catches hold of something he falls to the ground, where he lies with staring eyes, and objects seem distorted ; before he falls has shooting pain in forehead, root of nose and
eyes ; vertigo chiefly when walking, stooping at work and on exertion, also sometimes at night ; had frequently to be carried home from his work in fields ; after attack, stupefaction, loss of consciousness, sopor sometimes with delirium and followed by exhaustion ; pale,
greyish yellow complexion, with dim, dull eyes, and grey, furred tongue ; appetite not deficient, but nothing tastes good ; after least morsel feels too full, and can eat no more ; pressive pains in stomach and scrobiculus ; rumbling in bowels, much thirst, frequent
yawning, urine scalds and is fetid ; scrobiculus cordis distended, painful when pressed ; at night frequent desire to pass urine ; diarrhœa ; chilliness in evening, often cough with much muco-purulent expectoration ; difficult, anxious breathing, especially when
walking ; sleep disturbed, full of dreams ; in morning exhausted, fetid smell from mouth, also noticed by day.
After drinking cold water while overheated, difficult respiration, formication, pressure in stomach, nausea and vertigo ; since then gastric derangement, vertigo, headache, noise in ears, rumbling in bowels, bellyache, eructations, empty feeling in stomach, debility ; bad
taste, white tongue ; feeling as if stomach was full of water, wabbling when moving or stooping ; staggering and sensation of unsteadiness of heart when walking or driving, nausea, yawning, deep inspirations, fulness in scrobiculus cordis and beating there ; frequent desire to
urinate, urine light yellow and turbid ; sleep good, sleepy by day ; eyes red, constant chilliness, cannot get warm even at his work ; difficulty of perspiring ; very weak.
Pyrosis after eating or drinking (especially cold water), also at night ; fluid regurgitated, tasted saltish, and often like lime water ; aching in epigastrium ; pain in left hypochondrium, sharp aching or shooting, or with sense of dragging or weight, < at night ;
dragging or creeping in right side, extending to shoulder ; after eating, distension of stomach and abdomen ; often throws up thick acid mucus ; < from animal, and almost all vegetable food, except bread stuffs ; frequent stinging burning aphthæ upon tongue, cheeks
and inside of lips ; sluggish bowels ; hemorrhoids, often bleeding, with burning and tenesmus, and sore, swollen abdomen ; head heavy and confused ; rheumatic gnawing pains about shoulders and joints at night, < in damp and windy weather ; has been in habit of
taking enormous doses of magnesia.
Bloatedness of stomach, headache, chilliness, heat, nausea, thirst, bitter taste, gagging, vomiting ; pressure in front of head and eyes ; grey yellowish tongue ; thirst ; after eating, pressure and fulness of stomach, and loathing ; breathing heavy ;
anxious ; face pale ; heat in head ; no sleep.
Pressure in region of stomach, < in right hypochondrium ; pain < after meals, > after eating a very small quantity of food ; pains generally < in morning, not extending very far and rarely going to back, mostly spreading over half of sternum when there occurs also
oppression of breathing ; marked relief of pain when assuming a straight position or when bending backward ; sensitive to pressure in right hypochondrium over region of stomach ; every three to four days scanty, hard, lumpy stool ; menses have not appeared for several
months, leucorrhœal discharge every four weeks ; emaciation. θ Perforating ulcer.
Dyspepsia of aged persons rather inclined to obesity, or after great loss of vitality ; repugnance to all food ; constant chilliness, cold hands and feet ; no sweat however great the heat.

Hypochondria

Feeling of heat, burning, pinching sticking in hepatic region.
Wrenching pain in liver on stooping.
Pains in liver through to back. θ Keratitis.
Pressure extending towards liver, as if starting from right breast, with throbbing in epigastric region, which is painful to touch.
Painful stitches in right lumbar and region of liver, with tension across abdomen ; stitches < on motion ; must sit stooped forward, with elbows on knees, and face in palms of hands ; when walking stooped forward with hands on knees. θ Hepatitis.
Stitch pain in right side of chest through to shoulder ; pressive, sprained pain in liver ; can lie only on right side ; complete exhaustion ; neither thirst nor appetite. θ Icterus.
Pain in lower extremities ; on lying down, cannot get her breath ; stitching pain in right side, commencing in back, and going through chest, < at night, whether lying down or rising ; < in cold air ; stitching pains in knee, which sometimes swell ;
stitching pain through right shoulder and shoulder blade ; appetite poor ; stitching pains re-appear every year about time frost sets in ; external warm applications cause the pains to move to other places. θ Disease
of liver with hydrothorax.
Painful stitches in right lumbar region and region of liver, with tension across abdomen ; stitches < on motion or deep inspiration, and particularly from any unguarded motion ; > sitting stooped forward, elbows on knees and face resting on palms of hands ; in moving
about room stooped forward, steadying body by placing hands on knees to guard against any sudden motion. θ After acute hepatitis.
Swelling of liver ; abscess.
Icterus, biliary colic.

Abdomen and loins

Shooting and stitching pains in abdomen. θ Phlegmasia dolens.
Epigastrium swollen, hard, sensitive ; pulsations therein ; pains in hepatic and umbilical region, also on both sides of inferior parts of stomach, down into bladder and testes.
Cutting, shooting, darting stitching all over abdomen.
Stitch pain in right side of abdomen, < from motion.
Frequent, slight cutting about umbilicus.
Cutting pain in left side of upper abdomen, extending from lower portion of left chest, where there is a sticking at same time.
Cutting in abdomen, as if torn to pieces.
Cutting in intestines violent ; must sit bent over, pressing with both hands, or lean far back for relief ; cannot sit upright.
Cutting and drawing in abdomen, like false labor pains.
Frequent cutting in abdomen, as before diarrhœa.
Labor-like colic, with pain in back.
Colic, as if intestinal canal was full of water.
Throbbing in abdomen.
Heaviness and unrest in abdomen.
Feeling of coldness in abdomen, as if cold fluid passed through intestines, during menses.
Fulness, heat and great distension in abdomen, immediately after eating a little.
Tension across abdomen ; heaviness, inactivity, coldness.
Hard distension of abdomen, with painfulness of umbilical region to touch
Abdomen distended with wind, after eating.
Incarceration of flatus with colic.
Feeling of tension of lower abdomen, and sensation of heaviness in it, while sitting and walking.
Pressure in lower part of abdomen on stooping.
Stitches in lower abdomen.
Abdominal muscles painful to touch.
Stitches and painful bloatedness in groins.
Swelling of inguinal glands. θ Nephritis.
Yellow scaly spots on abdomen and about nipples, becoming moist when scratched.
Ascites.

Stools and rectum

Discharge of much flatus.
Diarrhœa : painless, with rumbling in abdomen and burning at anus ; only by day ; chronic cases, with puffiness under eyebrows ; chronic, of dyspeptics ; alternating with constipation.
(In sick :) Sudden, vehement desire for stool as in diarrhœa, although stool is hard, with colic.
Insufficient soft stool ; after much pressure most of it remains.
Ineffectual urging to stool, with a feeling as if rectum was too weak to expel it.
Constipation : in women whose abdominal organs are weak, in consequence of frequent miscarriages or multiple and difficult labors ; cardiac palpitations ; feeling of distension in breast ; night sweats.
Stools : every eight to ten days, of large lumps ; dry, too large in size ; rectum inactive ; feels distressed an hour or two before a passage ; like sheep dung, passed with pain and exertion ; light grey ; frequent, soft, pale ; yellowish or
brownish, fecal ; corrosive ; soft, bloody ; tough, dark, soft.
Blood with stool.
Before stool : anxiety, distressed feeling ; white mucous discharge ; sudden and violent urging ; colic ; pinching deep in abdomen ; rumbling ; stitches in anus.
During stool : paleness of face ; cramps of stomach, nausea, eructation ; pinching abdominal pain ; colic ; smarting at anus ; nausea ; rectum feels too weak to expel feces ; painful straining extending into genitals ; protrusion and
distension of hemorrhoids, with pricking and burning.
After stool : itching about anus ; anus feels as if lacerated ; burning at anus ; pinching pains ; stinging, burning, tearing, screwing, biting.
Aggravation : at night ; at 3 or 4 A. M. ; during day ; in evening ; day and night ; after milk. θ Diarrhœa.
Hemorrhoids ; constipation due to inactivity of rectum ; stool difficult, too large in size, accompanied by swelling and bleeding of hemorrhoids ; discharge of blood from hemorrhoids during micturition.
Sensation as if anus was fissured ; can scarcely convince patient to contrary : stinging, burning, tearing, screwing, itching, biting following even natural stool, setting patient almost crazy ; walks floor back and forth for relief ; cannot sleep at night on account
of intolerable suffering ; passage of feces difficult, owing to their great bulk. θ Hemorrhoids.
Feels as if red hot poker was being thrust up rectum ; temporarily > by sitting in cold water, and by sitting on foot so as to press on anus ; bowels loose ; profuse discharge of blood. θ Hemorrhoids.
Burning and griping in rectum.
Large painful hemorrhoids ; > after riding.
Large discharge of blood from swollen hemorrhoids, with natural stool.
Protrusion of hemorrhoids during diarrhœa-like stool, with needle-like stitches and burning for many hours.
Sore pain in hemorrhoids.
Inflammation, soreness, stitches and tingling, as from ascarides, in the varices.
Pain in hemorrhoids during cough.
Proctitis, with violent stitching pain.
In anus ; lancinations ; stitches ; sticking ; tearing ; cutting ; stitches ; soreness ; itching ; crawling ; burning.
Violent itching in anus and scrotum.
Ulcerated pimples at anus.
Anal fistula.
Ascarides. θ Infantile catarrh.

Urinary organs

Stitches in region of the kidneys.
Tensive pain in left kidney ; swelling of inguinal glands ; œdema of left foot, extending gradually to right and upwards over whole body ; blackish urine, foams on shaking, on standing leaves a thick, reddish, slimy sediment ; frequent soft, pale stools ; after
a blow on left side, and remaining for hours in wet clothes. θ Nephritis.
Pressing ; stitches, sometimes dull, at others acute, smarting in both renal regions ; cutting tearing in neck and region of bladder ; frequent urging to urinate, with slow discharge after long waiting and effort ; frequent urination, urine at first increased,
afterwards diminished ; fiery, pale, greenish, dark yellow, muddy urine.
Violent cutting and tearing in bladder, neck of bladder and urethra.
Obliged to urinate frequently, but there is often pressure on bladder a long while before urine comes ; even at night is obliged to rise several times on account of it, though he drinks but little.
Frequent urination, especially at night, with much pressure and scanty emission.
Urine : hot, scanty, frequent, sediment red, slimy ; blackish, foaming when shaken ; turbid ; greenish ; fiery, diminished.
Burning in urethra during and after micturition.
Urine flows slowly, with soreness and burning.
Prostatic discharge after micturition.

Male sexual organs

Sexual desire excessive, with burning sensation, or deficient.
After coition, weak, especially the eyes.
Emissions, followed by great weakness.
Pollutions, with voluptuous dreams.
Copious, painful pollutions, with subsequent painful erections.
Swelling of testes and spermatic cords.
Scrotum feels as if bruised.
Dragging in left testicle and penis.
Itching on scrotum.

Female sexual organs

Uterine tumor : with flatulency ; stitching pains ; spells of nausea ; rising at night to urinate ; dysuria ; tendency to uterine hemorrhage.
Pain in small of back as though it was pressed in from both sides, with labor-like colic and leucorrhœa ; also during menses. θ Uterine displacement.
Uterine prolapsus and piles.
Stitching pains in and about uterus ; labor-like colic, leucorrhœa ; pain like a weight in small of back.
Stitching pains about tender uterus or all over abdomen at times. θ Hysteralgia.
Nausea, vomiting, stitches through abdomen ; great weakness.
Chronic inflammatory states of womb, with nausea and vomiting.
Uterine spasms, especially with profuse menstruation and intermissions in wave of pulse.
Severe uterine spasms when menses should appear but do not ; head heavy and dull ; feels hot and restless ; menses usually profuse.
Acrid, offensive smelling, vitiated menstrual discharge, with chilliness and cramping pains in abdomen.
Promotes expulsion of moles.
Feels very badly a week before catamenia ; congestion to brain and chest, hot flashes, burning pain in region of hips, intermitting pulse, stitches in chest.
Menses too early, scanty, of a pungent odor, acrid, covering thighs with an itching eruption.
Menses too early, too profuse and long lasting.
Continual profuse menstrual hemorrhages.
Profuse and long continued menstruation of bright red blood in females of sanguine temperament.
Menses suppressed, with anasarca or ascites.
After severe fright, three years previously, suppression of menses ; frequent, severe pains in abdomen ; tongue cherry red in color, sharp pains in left hypochondrium, < walking, also prevents her sitting down ; < in evening with difficult respiration ; face now
pale, again very red ; frequent attacks of one-sided headache, particularly at times when menses should have appeared, with severe pains in left side of forehead, which become throbbing in nature, particularly when working, and which cause tears to flow ; headache in morning, >
towards evening ; pulse hard and full ; frequent palpitation and epistaxis ; lassitude and weakness in legs, < from slightest motion.
Amenorrheic and menorrhagic symptoms due to organic affection of heart, deficiency of healthy blood ; acrid discharges.
Menses entirely suppressed, or when menses do not appear at age of puberty ; difficult first menses.
Before menses : swelling of cheeks and gums ; sour eructations ; shooting pains over abdomen ; colicky pains ; nettlerash ; increased sexual desire, with sensation of thrill as during an embrace, especially on awaking in morning ; sour
eructations ; shooting or crampy pains in abdomen ; itching of vulva ; nocturnal restlessness ; chilliness.
Violent colicky pain in abdomen before menses appear, constipation during menses.
During menses : headache with heaviness ; coryza ; swelling of parotid glands ; pains in back, loins and abdomen, head, ears and teeth ; itching of skin, nettlerash ; lassitude, sleepiness ; restless, dreamful sleep ;
foul taste in mouth, eructation, nausea, vomiting, distension and rumbling in abdomen ; excoriation between legs ; heavy aching in small of back and down buttocks ; cutting in abdomen ; griping colic with pressure in abdomen and groins ; painful weight in
groins ; severe backache when walking ; pain in back as from a heavy weight ; pudendum sore, burns and itches ; pressure in small of back and forepart of lower abdomen, as if everything would push out at genitals.
Pain like a weight in small of back during menses.
Great soreness about genitals, before, during and after menstruation.
Sore pain in vagina during coition.
Tearing in left labium, extending through abdomen to chest ; pinching pain in labia ; stitches through vulva ; soreness, gnawing, burning, itching in vulva. θ Vulvitis.
Pimples on vulva.
Mucous leucorrhœa.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

During pregnancy, sickness coming on only during a walk, without vomiting, and accompanied by a feeling, as if she could lie down and die.
Feels pulsation of all arteries, even down to tips of toes ; feeling of emptiness in whole body, as if body was hollow ; heavy and broken down feeling ; it is only with greatest effort one can make any exertion.
Vomiting, with a swoon-like failing of strength ; much colicky, stitching pain in abdomen. θ Pregnancy.
Back aches so badly while she is walking that she says "she feels as if she could lie down in the street" to obtain immediate rest and relief.
Severe pains in small of back, during pregnancy, particularly forcing and pressing in character, as if a heavy weight came into pelvis low down, occasionally becoming very annoying ; also stitching, pressing proctalgia.
Abortion : impending, with pains from back into buttocks and thighs ; discharge of coagula ; habitual ; during second or third month.
After abortion, when there is great weakness of back and lower extremities, dry cough, long continued sweats, attacks of chilliness resembling ague, chronic inflammatory condition of uterus with nausea and vomiting.
Labor pains insufficient : violent backache, wants back pressed ; bearing down from back into pelvis.
Sharp, cutting pains across lumbar region, or passing off down buttocks, thus hindering labor ; pulse weak.
The pains are stitching and shooting, or they are in the back, shooting down into glutei muscles or buttocks ; or pass off down thighs.
Easy confinement, but adherent placenta, which was removed eighteen hours after delivery of child ; one week later a considerable metrorrhagia.
Sixty hours after delivery, two chills, pricking, nettle-like pains over whole back where it touched bed ; frequent shocks of a few seconds duration.
Intense thirst, morning, noon and night continually ; very rapid, small pulse ; distressing cutting, shooting, darting and stitching pain all over abdomen, stitching pains being in ascendency, come one during perfect rest, and are not dependent upon motion of any kind ;
abdomen much distended ; great exhaustion, with stupidity ; does not seem to care for anything ; urine scanty and dark. θ Puerperal fever.
Severe hemorrhage from uterus due to atony of blood vessels, one week after labor.
After confinement : hemorrhage ; hemorrhoids ; peritonitis.
Tearing stitches in mamma ; on flow of milk.
Sequela following confinement and miscarriage, especially in weak, debilitated constitutions ; weak back, sweat, dry cough, prolonged metrorrhagia.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Aphonia, with violent sneezing ; complete hoarseness.
Scraping, dryness, parched feeling in larynx.
Roughness of throat.
Dry coryza ; total loss of voice and hoarseness ; collection of mucus in throat and sensation of lump in throat ; convulsive and tickling cough at night ; choking and gagging unto vomiting, especially in morning.
Mucus seems to run from head to throat ; hawks out easily white, thick and tasteless mucus, < in early part of day ; breath offensive, < evening ; catarrh alternates with leucorrhœa, which is attended with backache, and is < in morning. θ Chronic
catarrh.
Chronic bronchitis when cold and damp have induced vascular irritation ; severe, sometimes spasmodic, cough day and night ; effort to bring up a few lumps of greyish mucus often determines retching and vomiting ; breathing difficult and labored after frequent paroxysms of
coughing.
Dry cough as if membrane prevented breathing in trachea, or as if some tough membrane was moved about by cough, without being able to expectorate it. θ Cough after measles.

Respiration

Weakness and weariness of chest, from rapid walking.
Sensation as if there was no air in chest, and he could not breathe.
Tension across chest, on expiration, while walking.
Stitches in chest, on inspiration.
Oppression of chest ; shortness of breath in morning.
Spasmodic dyspnœa.
Suffocation from dryness of larynx.
Difficult, wheezing breathing.
Breathing labored ; after paroxysms of cough.
Dyspnœa, < from drinking, from motion, cannot walk fast ; arrest of breathing, awaking him at night.
Dyspnœa with violent and irregular beating of heart ; pulsation all over body, especially in hysteric women.
Asthma ; must lean forward with head on knees, < in morning.
Continual pressure after eating ; tension in stomach and pit of stomach ; small portions of coffee or weak soup fill her up ; eructations ; nausea and vomiturition ; frequent headache and toothache ; hot flashes with abdominal
pulsations ; vertigo ; continual chilliness ; cold feet ; internal chilliness, with constant inclination to micturate, but urine flows slowly and causes burning sensation ; stool dry, retarded ; epigastrium bloated ; tense, at pit hard, and painful to
touch ; respiration heavy, oppressed, especially when walking ; when stooping, pain at pit of stomach < ; respiration more oppressed ; pain frequently moves over ribs to back ; face pale, œdematous around eyes ; sleep restless and full of dreams ; skin dry. θ Asthma.
Asthma, with habitual cough ; paroxysm < during exertion or when walking ; return every two or three hours, especially during evening and night ; for several weeks paroxysms alternate with nightly diarrhœa, combined with loss of appetite, headache, nausea,
dry cough, restless sleep, pressure in epigastrium, hands and arms covered with bluish red places, like ecchymosis ; extremities very tired.
Terrible attacks of asthma ; aggravation at 3 A. M.

Cough

Cough : paroxysmal, from tickling in throat, larynx or bronchi ; with dislodgment of tenacious mucus or pus, which must be swallowed ; spasmodic, with gagging, or vomiting of ingesta and sour phlegm ; tormenting, gets nothing up, sometimes feels as if a
tough membrane was moved about, but would not loosen.
Cough affecting chest, caused by tickling in throat.
Convulsive and tickling cough at night. θ Coryza.
During cough : sparks dart from eyes ; rough pain in larynx ; scratching and stinging in throat and chest ; pain in abdomen and in hemorrhoidal tumors ; stitches in rectum ; nausea, retching, vomiting ; stitches in right side of chest (lower
part) ; wheezing in chest ; asthma.
Cough so violent as to cause vomiting.
Suffocative and choking cough at 5 A. M., as from dryness in larynx ; cannot speak on account of cramp in chest, with redness of face and perspiration over whole body.
Evening and morning dry cough with burning in chest.
Great dryness of throat between 2 and 3 A. M. ; awakes with a dry cough at 2 A. M. ; coughs about an hour ; scanty, yellow expectoration ; cough causes gagging ; hard, caked swelling of left submaxillary glands ; pulse 86, weak.
Cough at 3 A. M., repeated every half hour.
Dry, hard cough, somewhat troublesome during night, but much < at 4 A. M. ; no expectoration ; stitching pain in left side, which goes up back, when coughing or taking a long breath.
Dry cough at night, waking from sleep, with acute pain in chest on coughing ; little cough during day.
Dry cough with nightly diarrhœa.
Dry, hacking cough. θ Metrorrhagia.
Dry, short cough. θ Pleurisy.
Fatiguing cough in evening.
Violent cough evenings, after lying some time in bed.
Awakened at night by cough.
Sensation of lump rolling over and over on coughing, rising from right abdomen to throat and back again.
Whooping cough : < at 3 A. M. ; gagging and vomiting ; inflammation of lungs ; bag-like swelling between upper lids and eyebrows.
Cough < by day and accompanied by pains in both sides of abdomen like two knives going inward towards each other, doubling her up, > by pressing with hands ; constant raw pains in pit of stomach, < on coughing ; awakes between 5 and 6 A. M., with aggravation of cough
and pain in stomach and abdomen ; sputa, smoke colored round lumps, a little streaked with blood, and come flying out of mouth with force without effort ; cough causes sweat and exhaustion.
After measles, short, teasing cough, two or three paroxysms in rapid succession, dry, as if a membrane prevented breathing in trachea, or as if some tough mucus was moved about by cough without being able to expectorate it ; < eating or drinking ; vomiting ; pain in
lower part of chest where percussion is dull, with normal sound in upper part ; pressure in chest with fits of suffocation in morning ; general malaise ; heat ; headache ; no appetite ; dry stool ; pale face ; small and irregular pulse ; skin
always dry.
After pneumonia ; coughs up great masses of blood and pus ; night sweat ; sleepless.
Short, teasing cough.
During evening cough, after lying down, he can raise better if he turns from left to right side.
Dislodged mucus falls back into stomach.
Expectoration : tastes like old cheese ; sourish ; of small round lumps ; of blood streaked mucus ; of pus.

Inner chest and lungs

Chest feels weak, faint from walking fast.
Spasms of chest.
Cutting pain in chest : in evening, after lying down ; does not know how she shall lie ; < lying on right side ; in morning ; in lower part of chest, especially in left side ; moving into epigastrium and leaving a stinging
sensation in left half of chest.
Stitches in sides of chest, on inspiration.
Stitching pain in lower portion of right lung. θ Pleurisy.
Stitches beneath left mamma, at times extending upward from low down in chest.
Stitches under left mamma, and sometimes descending deep into chest ; also in evening.
Dull, painful stitches in chest, from without inward, under left clavicle, going off for a short while by pressing on parts in evening.
Dull stitches deep in left chest under short ribs.
Sticking pressure in left side of chest, on deep breathing.
Sticking pressure in right side of chest.
Pressure in middle of chest, with gulping of watery phlegm ; stricture of œsophagus.
Pressure in whole left side of chest.
Pressure, heaviness, anxious feeling in chest.
Throbbing in left side, near pit of stomach.
Chest becomes very sore, especially on talking.
Sore pain in upper part of chest, on breathing, touching, or lifting anything heavy.
Pain through lower third of right chest to back.
Pain as if lower lobe of right lung was adhering to ribs.
Dry cough day and night, with vomiting of ingesta and some phlegm ; < after eating and drinking and in forenoon ; during cough face gets dark red, otherwise it is pale ; eyelids red and swollen ; breathing short and anxious ; heat, thirst without desire to
drink ; during day chilliness ; cold extremities ; crying all day ; restless sleep, interrupted with crying and coughing ; much yawning and sneezing ; watery diarrhœa ; discharge of worms. θ Catarrh
of chest.
Dyspnœa, < in spells, caused by cough, motion and drinking ; breathing wheezing, labored, whistling during inspiration ; face purple, bloated ; region of stomach distended ; arms twitch and hands move convulsively.
Difficult breathing, cannot walk fast ; right lung hepatized ; pulse 106, small and hard ; cannot lie on right side, feels best lying on left side. θ Pneumonia.
Pneumonia, with stitches through right chest, hepatic inflammation ; r. lung hepatized ; < lying on right side.
Pneumonia after measles ; dry, hacking cough ; fever ; headache ; stitches and pressing in chest ; short breathing, wheezing, rattling ; dry skin ; great thirst ; whitish grey tongue ; loss of appetite ; cough < towards morning, almost
choking, < from eating or drinking, causing vomiting ; pain in lower part of chest, with dull percussion sound ; pulse small, and somewhat irregular ; face pale ; skin dry ; stool dry.
Infantile pneumonia, much rattling during resolution.
During resolution ; exudate considerable, and sometimes on both sides ; great bubbling and rattling noise ; great dyspnœa, preventing child from sleeping and drinking ; puffiness, with cyanosis of hands and feet ; tormenting cough, which, however, brings none of
tough phlegm away ; diarrhœa. θ Pneumonia.
Pleurisy ; stitches in left chest, with violent palpitation ; dry cough, < 3 A. M. ; stitches in lower right lung ; after Acon., when severe stitching pains and difficult respiration continue or return ; left side particularly affected ; palpitation of
heart ; dry, suppressed cough ; exudation on right side ; during course of tuberculosis.
Predominant stitches ; incipient pulmonary phthisis with exhausting, dry cough, short breathing ; purulent expectoration, weakness and emaciation.
In beginning of phthisis, when there is occasional discharge of masses resembling pus ; transient stitches through chest ; dry, distressing cough ; great debility and emaciation ; during disorganizing stage of tubercles.
Profuse expectoration of whitish yellow pus with cough, 3-4 vessels being filled daily ; < at night ; pressure and heaviness in head ; vertigo when moving ; pinching and gripping in chest with pains about epigastrium and much cough ;
occasionally expectoration is difficult ; whistling wheezing in chest ; great dyspnœa ; in afternoon much chilliness, in morning and at night fever with sweat ; congestion ; pains in limbs ; tearing, stitching pains in eyes and ears, always on same side ;
obstinate constipation ; prostration so great he must remain in bed ; face earthy ; pulse changeable ; offensive smelling sweat ; second stage. θ Phthisis.
Stitching pain in temples, eyes, ears, teeth, chest and different parts of body ; after dinner nausea, faintishness, sleep ; about noon, chilliness ; at night, heat ; about 3 o'clock A. M., cough < ; nursing mothers. θ Phthisis.
After pneumonia, dry, spasmodic, distressing cough ; great emaciation, eyes and cheeks sunken ; great depression of mind and fear of death ; painful oppression and scanty breath ; cough, < after midnight, causing sleeplessness ; cough short, hollow, painful,
paroxysmal ; expectoration of yellow pus, streaked with blood or containing small lumps of blood ; great difficulty in expectorating loosened discharge ; profuse night sweats ; digestive disturbances ; painful diarrhœa alternating with constipation ; pressure
in occiput.
Cough < from any exertion and < when lying down ; green scabs are sometimes coughed up, and frequently hard, round, white masses fly from mouth when coughing or hawking ; burning in top of head and soles of feet ; sweaty palms ; circumscribed red spot on one
cheek ; has attacks of gastric disorder which begin with belching of putrid gas, tasting like rotten eggs and ending with watery diarrhœa, < in morning ; gets hungry and faint about 10 A. M. ; contraction of heel cords ; eruption of minute vesicles upon soles of
feet ; canker sores in mouth ; gums bleed easily ; trembling sensation through entire body, < through pelvic region ; menses scanty and late ; weeps very easily while stating her symptoms. θ Phthisis.
Acts on lower part of right lung.
Far advanced phthisis ; expectoration of pus and blood ; diarrhœa ; night sweats ; loss of appetite ; falling away of intercostal spaces ; prostration.
Pleuritis of tuberculous patients ; affects especially clavicular region.
Persons suffering from ulceration of lungs can scarcely get well without this antipsoric. Hahnemann.
Far advanced hydrothorax ; patient draws breath with difficult and anxiety ; hippocratic countenance.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Stitches about heart and through to scapula.
Palpitation : in spells, taking his breath ; frequent and violent ; on least exertion ; with ebullitions, on waking.
Pale greyish color of face ; scanty menstruation ; spell of palpitation of heart ; pressure and heaviness in chest ; evening chilliness ; stitch pain and great anxiety in pit of stomach and through chest ; throat as if squeezed together, as if lungs were in
throat ; good appetite, but after eating pressure in stomach and chest, and gagging ; shudders frequently ; has dizziness in walking ; nausea ; cold feet ; pulse feeble, uneven.
Heart's action intermittent, irregular, tumultuous, weak.
Stitching pains in right side, commencing in back and going through chest, < at night, when lying down or rising ; dry, hard cough, especially < 3 A. M. ; a blowing noise and a louder secondary tick of pulmonary artery ; shortness of breath early in morning ;
dyspnœa during fast walking ; great pain in chest, especially when talking ; sharp aching behind sternum, when breathing ; painful throbbing in clavicle, shoulders, side of abdomen, etc. ; frequent intermission of beats of heart ; crampy pain in or about heart, as
if it was hanging by bands firmly drawn around ; pain < taking strong inspiration, or when coughing, not during exercise ; burning in region of heart ; both arms go to sleep even after violent exercise ; pulsative pains in upper arms, at intervals ; cold hands. θ Angina
pectoris.
After taking cold frequent desire to swallow saliva, but often cannot do it, it then causes a choking in throat ; can swallow food and drink ; heart beats quicker ; he feels weak ; lying on right side, heart feels suspended to left ribs and seems dragging them to
right side ; pain as if lower lobe of right lung was adhering to ribs ; difficulty of breathing ; has only been able to sleep sitting up, otherwise saliva would run down throat ; heart's action irregular, tumultuous ; systolic murmur loudest at apex.
Systolic murmur ; stitch pains ; second tick loud from pulmonary stagnation ; endocarditis.
In place of first tick, a blowing noise and a louder second tick of pulmonary artery. θ Endocarditis.
Insufficiency of mitral valves.
Pulse : rapid mornings, less so evenings ; unequal, irregular ; intermitting ; slow and weak.
Ebullitions, with heat from abdomen to head ; pulsations.
Tendency to fatty degeneration of heart.

Outer chest

Falling away of intercostal spaces. θ Pulmonary tuberculosis.
Small pimples on chest and back.

Neck and back

Stiffness in nape of neck, morning in bed.
Back of neck stiff ; shooting pains through chest ; uvula elongated.
Stiffness in left nape and down left inner scapula, < after waking up and after laughing.
Stiffness between shoulder blades.
Neck feels large, clothing tight ; congestion.
Swelling of cervical glands.
Tickling in glandular swelling of neck > on pressing with cold hand.
Pimples on nape of neck.
Stitches in right scapula on breathing.
Tearing in right scapula, in morning.
Stinging pain as from blows and bruises, in right scapula, when in motion ; may be felt as far as chest.
Violent stinging pain as from a sprain in left scapula, extending into chest.
Stitch from apex of scapula to pit of stomach, during fatiguing labor.
Burning tearing near right side of spine, above small of back.
Drawing pain in small of back.
Pain in small of back < after standing or walking.
Pain in small of back after a fall.
Feeling in morning as if small of back was pressed inward from both sides. θ Uterine displacement.
Hard pressure in small of back.
Sharp pains in small of back, with very acute labor-like pains running through to front at intervals of a few minutes, occasionally shooting down to glutei muscles.
Pressure or stitches in region of both kidneys.
Backache ; while walking, she feels as if she must give up and lie down.
Bruised pain in back, during rest.
Occasional stitch from small of back, through left side of abdomen, toward chest.
Sharp, stitching pains awaken him 3 A. M., he must get up and walk about ; pains shoot from loins into nates ; pulse weak, soft. θ Lumbago.
Stitching and shooting pains in back, shooting down into gluteal region or hips.
Back aches as if broken.
Tearing in lumbar muscles, impeding respiration.
Great weakness in small of back and lower limbs.
Stiffness and pain in small of back. θ Amenorrhœa.
Pain across sacrum like labor pains ; feeling of tightening of skin of lower abdomen ; feeling of weight in abdomen on walking, and especially on standing.
Gnawing in os coccygis.

Upper limbs

Tearing in left shoulder joint.
Pain, as from blows, under right shoulder, when moving or touching it.
Cracking in shoulder joint, when moving or raising arm.
Axillary glands swollen, painful.
Sweat in axillæ.
Weakness and loss of power in arms.
Weakness in arms, mornings ; arms feel numb, cold, go to sleep when lain on.
Pulsating pain in left upper arm by pauses.
Drawing and tearing in elbows ; stiffness.
Weakness, with cramps in hand and fingers ; paresis.
Hands fall asleep.
Hands tremble when writing, mornings.
Laming pain in wrists.
Hands and arms covered with purplish spots.
Skin on hands rough and chapped.
Palms itch ; vesicles form.
Dull, pressive tearing in hands, between thumb and index finger.
Cramping of fingers while sewing.
Burning pain like glowing coals, two fingers of left hand.
Stitching tearing extending into finger joints.
Finger tips go to sleep early in morning.
Spreading vesicles on left index finger ; discharge watery.

Lower limbs

Crampy tearing in hip joint and knee ; bruised pain when moving or sneezing. θ Coxalgia.
Paralytic weakness in hip joint.
Pains in right leg, which is a fingers' breadth longer than l. ; gluteo femoral fold almost obliterated ; very weak, cannot stand alone, has not taken a step for eight months ; spine curved ; every change of position causes a pitiable cry. θ Morbus
coxarius.
Left lower extremity elongated about two fingers' breadth ; gluteo femoral crease obliterated ; knees slightly flexed as if anchylosed, permitting neither flexion nor extension of leg ; violent lancinating pains in thigh and knee. θ Morbus
coxarius.
For last ten days would not walk ; considerable lengthening of right lower extremity ; folds of nates almost obliterated ; touch not painful. θ Morbus coxarius.
Sharp drawing pains in right knee and thigh ; affected leg about three fingers' breadth longer than sound one ; nates flattened ; movement of joint painful, although pressure caused no discomfort ; pulse feverish ; loss of appetite ; tongue coated
white ; pains < at night ; little sleep. θ Morbus coxarius.
Pains and heaviness in left thigh, < walking, and especially by forced marches ; left leg a finger's length longer than right, and head of femur partly forced out of acetabulum, threatening luxation. θ Morbus
coxarius.
Twitching of thigh muscles. θ Coxalgia.
Lower extremities frequently fall asleep.
Feeling of numbness and great inclination of whole right leg to fall asleep.
Paralytic drawing in whole thigh.
Jerkings in muscles of thighs.
Pains shoot down backs of thighs. θ Lumbago.
Cramp in right thigh and calf woke him twice at night.
Swelling, heat and redness of thighs. θ Pleurisy.
Difficulty in knees on going down stairs, and still more on going up.
Dull pains in side of knee, walking or extending leg.
Frequent tearing in knees.
Nightly rheumatic pains in legs.
Restlessness of legs in evening.
Tearing in both tibiæ, with pain in periosteum when touched and a feeling of tension when walking.
Drawing and tearing in bones of legs.
Drawing pain in tibia with aching in joints ; ulcerative pain on pressure.
Burning and stinging in legs and feet.
Creepy chilly sensation on shins.
Herpes on legs and thighs.
Vesicles on tibia, with inflamed areola.
Frequent tearing in ankles.
Tearing on inside of foot and on sole.
Feet heavy, stiff ; fall asleep after dinner.
Swelling of legs or of feet to ankles.
Feet cold in evening in bed.
Œdema of left foot, extending to right and upwards, becoming general. θ Nephritis.
Profuse fetid foot sweat ; suppressed foot sweat.
Tearing in toes ; in first phalanx of great toe.
Stinging and burning in ball of great toe.
Violent itching on great toe, beneath nail, with pain when touched.

Limbs in general

Pains mostly in upper arms and lower part of legs, < on going to sleep.
Uneasiness in limbs, in evening ; is obliged to move them about.
Heaviness in limbs ; she is scarcely able to lift feet.
Jerking of legs on falling asleep.
Drawing, tearing, stitching pains in limbs.
Limbs pain when resting them upon any object.
Limbs fall asleep while lying.
Pressive pain in joints.
Sticking in joints and tendons.
Cracking in joints on motion.
Extremities very tired, with nightly diarrhœa and asthmatic cough.
Limbs tired and cold.
Puffiness ; hands and feet cyanotic.
Spasmodic contraction of fingers and toes.

Rest. position. motion

Rest : bruised pain in back.
On lying down : cannot get her breath ; cough < ; stitching pains in right side < ; chill >.
After lying down : cutting pains in chest ; does not know how she shall lie ; during evening cough ; can raise better if he turns from left to right side.
Cannot sleep on back in night.
Lying on right side : pain in chest < ; heart feels suspended to left ribs.
Can lie only on right side.
Cannot lie on right side, feels best when lying on left side.
When lying on arm : it feels numb, cold, goes to sleep.
Desire to lie down.
Must lie down : when vertigo comes on.
Could lie down in the street while walking, to obtain relief from backache.
If he does not at once lie down, he gets such a vertigo, that everything seems to be whirling round, and even if he catches hold of something he falls to the ground, where he lies with staring eyes.
Cannot stand alone : right leg longer than left.
Sitting : feeling of tension of lower abdomen ; the only position in which patient could sleep ; severe pain in left hypochondrium.
Must sit stooped forward with elbows on knees, and face in palms of hands.
Must sit bent over pressing with both hands, or lean far back for relief, cannot sit upright, with backache.
Must lean forward ; on account of severe pain in pit of stomach ; asthma.
Stooping : stitches in forehead < ; dizziness ; pain at pit of stomach < ; vertigo ; wabbling in stomach ; wrenching pain in liver ; pressure in lower part of abdomen.
When assuming a straight position or when bending backward ; marked relief of pain.
Raising head : stitches in forehead >.
Motion : headache with vertigo ; < pain in tumors on scalp ; severe pressure in stomach < ; wabbling in stomach ; stitches in lumbar region < ; stitch pain in abdomen < ; dyspnœa ; stinging pain in right scapula ; of arm causes cracking in
shoulder joint ; causes bruised pain in legs ; of joint of leg causes pain ; cracking in joints ; chilliness.
From slightest motion : lassitude and weakness in legs <.
Any exertion : asthma < ; cough < ; palpitation.
Rising : stitching pains in right side <.
Moving head, eyes and jaw : stitches in forehead <.
Turning head or body : produces vertigo.
Raising arms : causes cracking of shoulder joints.
Scarcely able to lift foot : on account of heaviness of limbs.
Extending leg : causes dull pains in side of knee.
In moving about room : stooped forward steadying body by placing hands on knees to guard against any sudden motion.
Any unguarded motion : stitches <.
Walking : causes vertigo ; obstruction in nose > ; respiration oppressed ; difficult, anxious breathing ; sensation of unsteadiness of heart ; feeling of tension of lower abdomen ; pains in left hypochondrium < ; backache ; brings on sickness
during pregnancy ; tension across chest, on expiration ; respiration heavy, oppressed ; asthma < ; dizziness ; dyspnœa ; pain in small of back < ; feels as though she must lie down ; feels a tightness of skin of abdomen ; pain in thigh < ; dull
pain in knee ; feeling of tension in both tibiæ ; irksome, limbs heavy ; walks floor back and forth for relief.
During a walk : sick, no vomiting.
Must get up and walk : on account of sharp, stitching pains in back.
Going up and down stairs difficult : on account of knee symptoms.
Rapid walking : weakness and weariness of chest.
During fatiguing labor : stitch from apex of scapula to pit of stomach.
Violent exercise does not prevent arms from going asleep.

Nerves

Sudden shrieking ; redness of face and eyes ; striking about with hands ; grasping at head and chest, and incoherent talk ; sees figures, old repulsive persons which fill her with fear ; head hot, temperature of rest of body being
normal ; spasmodic flexion of fingers ; after one to five minutes attack passes off, followed by headache, spasmodic constriction of chest and general sweat ; attacks come on several times during night or in daytime ; several days before attack, headache, loss of appetite
and nausea ; during intermediate time perfectly well. θ Hysteria.
Cannot bear to be touched ; starts when touched ever so lightly, especially on feet.
Twitching here and there in muscles.
Spasms, with full consciousness ; puerperal spasms seem to pass off with frequent eructations.
Frequent exhaustion, feels she must lie down or sit.
Whole body heavy or broken down ; it is only with great effort she can make any exertion. θ After labor.
Complete exhaustion. θ Icterus. θ Tuberculosis.
Debility and desire to lie down.
Heaviness, especially of feet ; walking becomes irksome.
Paresis ; trembling.
Paralytic conditions which slowly and insidiously develop ; attacks of vertigo in open air ; finally paralysis of lower limbs, upper limbs also becoming involved.

Sleep

Yawns continually. θ Sick headache. θ Blepharitis. θ Infantile
catarrh.
Great sleepiness ; during day and early in evening ; while eating ; after eating, with chilliness and yawning.
Unable to fall asleep before 11 or 12 o'clock.
Wakes about 1 or 2 A. M., cannot sleep again.
Awakening between 2 and 4 A. M., with nearly all ailments, but especially those of throat and chest.
Aroused by asthma.
No sleep ; gastric ailments.
Restless sleep.
During sleep : starting ; limbs twitch ; gnashing teeth ; crying ; talking.
Frequent awakening, with desire to urinate.
Anxious dreams.
Dreams : of water ; thieves ; ghosts ; diseases ; dead people ; misfortunes ; erotic, imaginative, fantastic, sentimental.

Time

Morning : vertigo ; headache with vertigo ; scalp itches and burns ; perspiration on forehead ; eye symptoms < ; expectoration of phlegm ; eyelids agglutinated ; face bloated ; tenacious mucus in fauces ; eructations ;
headache begins ; cough < ; dry cough, with burning ; exhausted ; pains in stomach generally < ; headache on awaking ; increased sexual desire, with sensation of thrill as during an embrace ; intense thirst ; choking and gagging unto vomiting ;
leucorrhœa < ; shortness of breath ; asthma < ; dry cough with burning in chest ; pressure in chest, with fits of suffocation ; cough < ; fever with sweat ; gastric disorders ; shortness of breath ; pulse rapid ; stiffness of neck ; tearing
in right scapula ; feeling as if small of back was pressed inward from both sides ; weakness in arms ; hands tremble when writing ; finger tips go to sleep ; chilliness ; heat ; sweat ; headache rouses him.
At 2 A. M. : pressing tensive pain in stomach awakens ; dry cough awakes him.
At 2 or 3 A. M. : awakened by tensive pain at pit of stomach ; great dryness of throat ; scarlet fever <.
Between 2 and 4 A. M. awakes with all ailments.
At 3 A. M. : terrible attacks of asthma : whooping cough < ; dry cough < ; stitching pain awakens him, must get up and walk ; aggravation regularly.
At 3 or 4 A. M. diarrhœa <.
At 5 A. M. : suffocating and choking cough.
Between 5 and 6 A. M. awakes with aggravation of cough.
At 9 A. M. : headache worst.
At 10 A. M. : gets hungry and faint.
Forenoon : dry cough <.
Noon : intense thirst ; chilliness ; headache >.
Early part of day : hawking of mucus.
During day : great deal of yawning ; toothache > ; chilliness ; sleepy ; burning at anus ; diarrhœa < ; cough < ; dry cough ; crying ; sleepiness ; frequent shudderings.
Day : severe cough.
Afternoon : drawing in forehead ; much chilliness ; nausea.
Evening : vertigo ; scalp itches and burns ; fever and thirst : violent fluent coryza ; pressive toothache ; toothache in bed ; dryness in mouth ; takes a long while to fall asleep ; cough < ; dry cough with burning in chest ; eruption
on back and thighs itches greatly ; chilliness ; diarrhœa < ; pains in left hypochondrium < ; headache > ; offensive breath < ; asthma ; dry cough with burning in chest ; fatiguing cough ; violent cough after lying some time in bed ; stitches
beneath left mamma ; dull stitches in chest > ; pulse less rapid ; restlessness of legs ; feet cold ; uneasiness of limbs ; sleepiness ; chills begin ; fever.
Night : delirium ; sharp tearing in right orbit and eye ; cannot sleep on back ; severe cutting, lancinating pain in pit of stomach < ; mouth, throat and lips dry ; sleepless, then headache ; sometimes vertigo ; frequent desire to pass urine ;
sharp aching in hypochondrium < ; rheumatic gnawing pains about shoulders and joints ; stitching pain in right side < ; diarrhœa ; cannot sleep on account of intolerable suffering ; obliged to urinate frequently ; restlessness ; chilliness ; intense
thirst ; convulsive and tickling cough ; severe cough ; arrest of breathing awaking him ; asthma ; dry, hard cough somewhat troublesome, but much < at 4 A. M. ; awakened by cough ; sweats ; dry cough ; expectoration < ; fever with
sweat ; heat ; stitching pains in right side < ; pains in leg < ; ulcers bleeding.
Midnight : drawing in forehead.
After midnight : severe cutting pains in pit of stomach < ; cough <.

Temperature and weather

Very much inclined to take cold.
Heat : stitches in forehead and temples > ; pain in tumors on scalp >.
Warm applications : cause pain to move to other places.
Warm drinks : < sweat.
Warm room : chill >.
In room : obstruction of nose returns.
Open air : despondent ; aching in occiput > ; obstruction in nose > ; vertigo ; chill <.
Change of air : sensitive to.
Anything cold or warm : < toothache.
Draft : easily gives cold, toothache and headache.
Windy weather : gnawing in shoulders and joints <.
Damp weather : pressure in stomach < ; rheumatic gnawing about shoulders and joints <.
Washing face : causes nosebleed.
Washing in cold water : red spots on face.
Sitting in cold water : temporarily > feeling of red hot poker thrust up rectum.
Cold water : drinking > jerking in head ; while overheated, difficult respiration, pyrosis.
Cold air : stitching pain in right side <.
When cold and damp have induced vascular irritation ; chronic bronchitis.

Fever

Frequent shuddering during day.
Great chilliness.
Chilly in morning, also about noon.
Chill : < outdoors ; begins toward evening, > near warm stove and after lying down.
Chilliness : after eating ; on every motion, even in bed.
Chill after the pains. θ Labor.
Cold hands and cold feet in bed.
Heat during morning hours, beginning in bed.
Heat with long yawning, stitching pain in head and chest, pulsations in abdomen.
Internal heat, external chilliness.
Chill and heat, with dyspnœa.
Evening fever ; chilly with thirst, then heat without thirst ; with violent, fluent coryza ; later slight sweat, with sound sleep.
Constant chilliness, violent thirst from internal heat ; hot hands ; loathing of food.
Chill and fever, with oppression of breathing, constriction of chest, pain in region of liver, thirst < during chill.
Entire want of perspiration.
Sweat : on every mental exertion, reading, writing ; mostly on upper parts ; every night ; all night without relief ; in morning ; after eating ; < by warm drinks ; easily excited by exercise ; offensive or sour smelling ; of axillæ
and perineum.
Night sweats, with cough. θ After pneumonia. θ Phthisis.
Type : quotidian ; same time every day.
Intermittent fevers with whooping cough.
After taking cold in a draft of air, and becoming heated, heaviness of limbs, tearing in whole body and head, roaring in ears, general coldness, during following night sour smelling perspiration.
Chill severe, shaking him dreadfully for two hours ; after chill, nausea and vomiting of bile ; during chill and fever breathes very quick, from oppression of chest, cannot well talk on account of oppression ; is not restless, but suffers from anguish ; lies
quiet ; much thirst ; no sleep, perspires all night ; no appetite ; pain in liver, which seems to be smaller than usual. θ Ague.
Fever, lasting from morning till noon, beginning with chilliness, heat in head, headache, thirst, swelling and redness of face, and lasting till noon, with loss of appetite ; afternoon free, with exception of debility and sensitiveness to change of air, ends at night with slight
perspiration ; during paroxysms, headache, stitches and pressure in forehead and eyes ; pains deep in eyes, with photophobia and lachrymation ; pain at first pressing, then stitching, bringing tears to eyes ; sparks before eyes, and staring look ; after half an hour,
dimness and mist before eyes ; upper eyelids swollen ; face red, hot ; headache rouses him out of sleep in morning, < in intensity up to 9 A. M. ; thirst ; roaring and swashing noises in ears ; towards noon >, but again < by taking solids or fluids into
stomach ; for last two days it never ceased during day and rendered nights sleepless ; coughing or sneezing renders headache nearly unbearable.
Chill every morning till noon ; slight perspiration at night ; headache ; stitch pain and pressure in front of head down into eyes ; pain deep in eyes, with photophobia and lachrymation ; pain first pressing, then stitch-like, causes to cry ; flashes like
lightning and sparks in eyes ; staring look ; half an hour afterwards foggy and dark before eyes ; upper lids swollen ; face red and hot ; headache awakens him in morning out of sleep, < coughing and sneezing ; urine red yellow ; stool dry.
Chilliness with headache, pressure and stitch pain in front of head, in temples, extending into eyes ; can scarcely see ; must shut eyes ; vertigo ; nausea ; swelling of eyelids, of left cheek and upper lip, with burning, thirst and heat. θ Catarrhal
fever.
After catching cold, vomiting ; headache ; nervousness and irritability ; pale face ; anorexia ; pulse intermittent ; disease finally becoming typhoid in character.
Intermitting pulse, vomiting, headache, nervousness, easily frightened, pale, sickly complexion. θ Typhoid.

Attacks, periodicity

Pains recur at 2 or 3 A. M., so that he is unable to remain lying, and are < than during day while moving about.
Two or three paroxysms of short, teasing cough in rapid succession.
At intervals : pinching, tearing pain in left temple ; pulsative pains in upper arms ; sharp pains running from back through to front of abdomen.
Every half hour after 3 A. M. : cough.
Every two or three hours : asthma returns.
An hour or two before a passage : feels distressed.
Several times a day : vertigo.
Three times at night : urine passes.
Several times in one night or day : hysteria.
Twice in one night : awakened by cramps in right thigh and calf.
Every morning : bloody, red nostrils ; at 9 A. M., nosebleed ; pressing in forehead and vertex, vertigo ; chill till noon.
Nightly : diarrhœa ; rheumatic pains in legs ; sweats.
Every three or four days ; scanty, hard, lumpy stool.
Every eight or ten days : stools of large lumps.
One week before catamenia ; feels very badly.
Every four weeks : leucorrhœal discharge.
Every year when frost sets in : stitching pain reappears.
For two hours : violent chill.
From morning till noon : fever.
For two days : headache did not cease.
For last ten days : would not walk.
For several weeks : nightly diarrhœa.
For eight months : has not taken a step.

Locality and direction

Right : milky whitish spot near middle of cornea ; sees as if through fog or smoke ; cracking in ear ; sharp tearing in orbit and eye ; lids of eye inflamed ; ear hot ; parotid swollen, inflamed, hard ; dragging or creeping on
side ; pressure < in hypochondrium ; pressure as if starting from breast ; painful stitches in lumbar region ; stitch pain in side of chest through to shoulder ; can lie only on side ; stitching pain in right side ; stitching pain through shoulder and
shoulder blade ; stitch pain in side of abdomen ; œdema of foot ; as of lump rising from side of abdomen to throat ; lying on side pain in chest < ; stitching pain in lower portion of lung ; sticking pressure in side of chest ; pain through lower third of
chest to back ; pain as if lower lobe of lung was adhering to ribs ; lung hepatized ; cannot lie on side ; stitches through chest ; exudation in tuberculosis ; stitching pains in side from back through to chest ; lying on side heart feels suspended to left
ribs ; stitches in scapula ; tearing in scapula ; stinging pain in scapula ; burning tearing near side of spine ; pains as from blows under shoulder ; pains in leg ; sharp drawing pains in knee and thigh ; leg inclined to go to sleep ; cramps in
thigh and calf ; œdema ; swelling of parotid gland ; swelling of face beginning at eye.
Left : pinching, tearing pain in temple ; tearing drawing in half of head ; cheek swollen ; ear pale and cold ; sensation as if a stick extended from throat to side of abdomen ; cutting in side of stomach and pressure spreads to ribs ; cutting pain in
side of upper abdomen, extending from lower portion of chest ; tensive pain in kidney ; œdema of foot ; dragging in testicle ; severe pains in hypochondrium ; severe pain in side of forehead ; tearing in labium ; hard caked swelling of submaxillary
gland ; stitching pain in side, cutting pains in chest ; stinging sensation in half of chest ; stitches beneath mamma ; dull stitches under clavicle ; dull stitches deep in chest under short ribs ; sticking pressure in side of chest ; pressure in whole side
of chest ; throbbing in side, near pit of stomach ; feels best lying on left side ; stitches in chest ; when lying on right side heart feels suspended to ribs and seems dragging them to right side ; stiffness of nape and down inner scapula ; violent stinging
pain in scapula ; stitch from small of back through side of abdomen ; tearing in shoulder joint ; burning pain in two fingers ; spreading vesicles on index finger ; leg little longer than r. ; pains and heaviness of thigh ; œdema of foot ;
erysipelatous inflammation on arm.
From right to left side : œdematous swelling under eyebrows.
From within outward : stitches in ear.
From without inward : stitches in chest.
From behind forward : jerking in head.
From upper to lower parts : rheumatism.

Sensations

Feeling of emptiness in whole body as if it was hollow.
Stitches in stomach, abdomen and back.
Pains : stitching, darting, < during rest and lying on affected side.
(In sick :) Sticking, stitching pains.
Pinching pain in internal parts.
Sensation of a lump rolling over and over on coughing, rising from right abdomen up to throat then back again.
Feeling as if bed was sinking from under her.
Vertigo, as if proceeding from stomach ; dulness as after intoxication and as if ears were stopped up ; as if head was too light ; as of a hot body having descended into it when stooping ; as if something was loose in head ; itching as if in bones ; sees as
if through a fog ; eyes as if pressed inward ; tip of tongue burns as if raw ; as if a fish bone was sticking in throat ; as of a lump in pharynx ; throat feels as if squeezed ; as if lungs came into throat ; as if a stick with ball at each end extended
from throat to abdomen ; pressing of a stone in forehead and vertex ; feels as if she must lie down ; stomach feels as if it would burst ; as if stomach was full of water ; stomach feels as if it was cut to pieces ; in middle of chest feeling as of a hard
ball ; pressure as if starting from right breast ; as if abdomen was torn to pieces ; as if intestinal canal was full of water ; as if cold fluid passed through intestines ; as if rectum was too weak to expel stool ; anus feels as if lacerated ; as if anus
was fissured ; as if red hot poker was thrust up rectum ; scrotum feels as if bruised ; small of back as though it was pressed in from both sides ; like a weight in small of back ; as if everything would push out at genitals ; as if she would lie down and
die ; as if body was hollow ; as if a heavy weight came down into pelvis low down ; dry cough as if a membrane prevented breathing, in trachea, or as if some tough membrane was moved about by cough ; as if there was no air in chest ; pain like two knives going inward
towards each other ; as if lower lobe of right lung was adhering to ribs ; throat as if squeezed together ; as if lungs were in throat ; as if heart was held by bands firmly drawn round ; neck as if large ; tearing in right scapula as from blows and
bruises ; stinging as from a sprain in left scapula ; back aches as if broken ; liver as if smaller than usual.
Pain : in forehead ; in ears ; deep in eyes ; in teeth ; in back ; from back into buttocks and thighs ; in limbs ; in facial bones ; in throat extending to stomach ; in centre of chest ; in cul de sac radiating to chest ; in
stomach ; in sacrum ; in small of back ; in pit of stomach ; in left hypochondrium ; in liver ; through to back ; in lower extremities ; in hepatic and umbilical region ; on both sides of inferior parts of stomach down into bladder and
testes ; in hemorrhoids during cough ; in loins ; in abdomen ; in head ; moves over ribs to back ; on both sides of abdomen ; in lower part of chest where percussion is dull ; through lower third of right chest to back ; in small of back ;
across sacrum ; under right shoulder ; in right leg ; in l. thigh ; in region of liver.
Excruciating pain : in throat when swallowing.
Violent pain : in back.
Severe pain : in abdomen ; in left side of forehead ; in small of back.
Great pain : in chest.
Very acute labor-like pains : from back through to front.
Acute pain : in chest.
Sharp pains : in left hypochondrium ; in small of back.
Violent lancinating pain : in thigh and knee.
Lancinating : in teeth ; in pit of stomach ; in anus.
Sharp, cutting pain : across lumbar region or passing off down buttocks.
Cutting : in stomach ; in left side of stomach ; all over abdomen ; l. side of abdomen from lower portion of left chest ; in intestines ; in anus ; in neck and region of bladder ; in urethra ; in chest.
Slight cutting : about umbilicus.
Tearing pain : in left temple ; in ears ; in limbs ; in anus ; neck and region of bladder ; in urethra ; in left labium ; in right scapula ; in lumbar muscles ; in left shoulder joint ; in elbows ; in knees ; in both
tibiæ ; in bones of legs ; in ankle ; in inside of foot and on soles ; in toes ; in first phalanx of great toe ; in limbs ; in whole body.
Tearing stitches : from a molar into forehead ; in mamma ; in eyes ; in ears ; into finger-joints.
Sharp tearing : in right orbit.
Burning tearing : near right side of spine.
Crampy tearing : in hip joint and knees.
Drawing tearing : in forehead ; in eyes ; in root of nose ; in left side of head ; in bones of legs.
Dull, pressive tearing ; in hands between thumb and index finger.
Shooting pain : in forehead ; in root of nose and eyes ; in epigastrium ; in abdomen ; over abdomen through chest ; to glutei muscles ; from loins into nates ; down backs of thighs.
Sharp shooting pains : from upper dorsal spine into occiput.
Stitches : in forehead ; in temples ; in eyes ; root of nose ; in occiput ; in eyes ; in middle of eye ; in ears ; in teeth ; in pit of stomach ; in stomach ; in back and chest ; in right lumbar and region of liver ;
in right side ; in lower abdomen ; in groins ; in the varices ; in anus ; in region of the kidneys ; through abdomen ; through vulva ; in and about uterus ; in rectum ; in right side of chest ; beneath left mamma, at times extending
upwards from low down in chest ; through right chest ; in left chest ; in lower lung ; about heart through to scapula ; in right scapula ; from apex of scapula to pit of stomach ; in region of kidneys ; from molar into temples ; in right side from
back through to chest ; in knees ; in lower right lung ; in limbs ; in abdomen.
Darting stitching : all over abdomen.
Transient stitches : through chest.
Occasional stitch : from small of back through left side of abdomen, toward chest.
Dull stitches : in chest ; deep in left chest under short ribs.
Sticking : in posterior portion of palate ; in pharynx ; in hepatic region ; in left chest ; in anus ; in joints and tendons.
Sticking pressure : in left side of chest ; in right side of chest.
Violent stinging pains : in left scapula.
Stinging pains : in nose ; in cheeks ; when swallowing ; in anus ; in throat and chest ; in right scapula ; in legs and feet ; in ball of great toe ; in joints and inner parts.
Stinging, burning aphthæ : upon tongue, cheeks and inside of lips.
Nettle-like pains : over whole back.
Pricking pains : over whole back.
Pricking : in hemorrhoids.
Beating : in epigastrium ; in scrobiculus cordis.
Violent throbbing : in stomach.
Painful throbbing : in clavicle, shoulders, side of abdomen.
Throbbing : in head ; whole body ; in epigastric region ; in pit of stomach ; in precordial region ; in abdomen ; in forehead ; in left side, near pit of stomach.
Pulsative pains : in upper arms.
Biting pain : in eyes ; in posterior portion of palate ; in anus.
Burning pain : in external canthus ; in back ; in region of hips ; on two fingers of left hand.
Pinching pain : in left temple ; in hepatic region ; in abdomen ; after stool ; in labia ; in chest.
Screwing : in anus.
Wrenching pain : in liver.
Griping : in abdomen.
Grasping : very painful, extending over chest.
Gripping : in chest.
Violent colicky pains : in abdomen.
Crampy pain : in or about heart ; in abdomen.
Cramping : of hands while sewing.
Cramp : in right thigh and calf.
Labor-like colic, with pain in back.
Gnawing : in vulva ; in os coccygis.
Boring : in teeth.
Drawing : behind ears ; in face ; in teeth ; in abdomen ; in small of back ; in elbows ; in right knee and thigh ; in both legs ; in tibiæ.
Dragging : in right side, extending to shoulder ; in left testicle and penis.
Digging : in stomach.
Sore pain : in hemorrhoids ; in vagina ; upper chest.
Burning : in scalp ; in eyes ; in nose ; on tip of tongue ; all over inner mouth ; from stomach to throat ; in pit of stomach ; in chest ; of hemorrhoids ; in hepatic region ; at anus ; in rectum ; in urethra ; in
pudendum ; in vulva ; in top of head and soles of feet ; in region of heart ; in legs and feet ; in ball of great toe ; on skin ; of herpes.
Soreness : in external canthus ; of tip of tongue ; in the varices ; in anus ; of pudendum ; about genitals ; in vulva ; of chest.
Ulcerative pain : in legs.
Tensive pain : in pit of stomach ; in left kidney.
Bruised pain : in back ; in hip joint and knee.
Pressing pain : in back of head ; in eyes ; in forepart of head into eyes ; in chest.
Pressive pain : in forehead ; in root of tooth ; in teeth ; in chest ; in stomach and scrobiculus ; in liver ; in limbs.
Sprained pain : in liver.
Rheumatic gnawing pains about shoulders and joints ; in legs.
Sharp aching : behind sternum.
Constant raw pain : in pit of stomach.
Laming pain : in wrists.
Rough pain : in larynx.
Dull pain : in side of knee.
Heavy aching : in small of back and down buttocks.
Aching : in occiput ; in pit of stomach ; in epigastrium ; in back ; in joints of legs.
Severe pressure : in stomach ; over whole skull ; in small of back.
Pressure : in occiput ; in stomach ; in forehead, temples and eyes ; in and above eyes ; in chest ; in pit of stomach ; over chest to pit of throat ; over chest, extending to back ; spreads to left ribs, to liver and back ; in right
hypochondrium ; in lower part of abdomen ; in middle of chest ; in side of chest ; in region of kidneys ; in scars.
Paralytic drawing : in whole thigh.
Heavy beating : in pit of stomach.
Jerking : in head ; in muscles of thigh ; of legs.
Smarting : in eyes ; in both renal regions.
Tingling : in the varices.
Scraping : in larynx.
Scratching : in throat and chest.
Parched feeling : in larynx.
Tickling : in ears ; in throat ; in glandular swelling of neck.
Cracking : in ear.
Dryness : of nose ; in mouth ; in throat ; in larynx.
Humming : in head.
Dulness : of head.
Sensation of lump rolling over and over, on coughing, rising from right abdomen to throat and back again.
Sensation of lump in throat.
Sensation of unsteadiness of heart.
Uneasiness : of heart ; of limbs.
Weakness : in arms ; in hands and fingers.
Gone feeling : in pit of stomach.
Emptiness : in pit of stomach.
Painful weight : in groins.
Painful bloatedness : in groins.
Fulness : in stomach ; of abdomen ; in scrobiculus cordis.
Swollen feeling : about whole epigastric region.
Great distension in abdomen.
Tension : in stomach ; in pit of stomach ; in legs ; in scars.
Constriction : of chest.
Heaviness : of head ; of limbs ; in stomach ; in abdomen ; of chest ; of left thigh ; of feet.
Feeling of weight : in abdomen.
Feeling of tightening : of skin of lower abdomen.
Stiffness : in nape of neck ; in left nape and down left inner scapula, between shoulder blades ; small of back ; feet.
Numbness of arms ; of whole right leg.
Crawling : in throat ; in anus.
Trembling sensation : through entire body ; < through pelvic region.
Violent itching : in anus and scrotum.
Itching : in tumors on scalp ; of scalp ; in ears ; in nose ; on chin ; about anus ; in anus ; on scrotum ; of vulva ; of skin ; in pudendum ; of herpes ; of warts.
Creeping : in right side, extending to shoulder.
Creepy, chilly sensation on shins.

Tissues

Paresis.
Twitching of muscles ; muscles rigid ; tremulous lassitude.
Atony of muscular tissue ; disposition to easy overlifting.
Oppression of breathing accompanies most complaints.
Anemia, with great debility, skin watery, milky white.
Easily takes cold.
Obesity.
Disposition to phlebitis.
Morbus coxarius.
Dropsical affections and paralysis of old persons.
Ascites in complication with liver and heart affections, especially of old people.
Body, legs and scrotum dropsically swollen.
Rheumatism, often attacking heart, generally going from upper to lower parts ; painful swelling ; gout.
Stinging pains in joints and inner parts.
Swelling and induration of glands.
Bleeding, boring, burning, corroding ulcers ; disposition to phlebitis ; pus copious, bloody, ichorous, thin, watery.
Ulcers, bleeding at night.
Chronic catarrh, ozæna, with rheumatism or gout.
Emaciation. θ Stricture of œsophagus.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

After a fall : first pain under left shoulder, afterwards small of back, into thigh, bruised feeling between shoulder blades, sometimes in both arms.
Slightest contact : < violent pressure over whole skull.
Slightest touch, especially on feet ; makes her start.
Cannot bear to be touched.
Touch : startles ; causes pain which makes patient shriek ; epigastric region painful ; pit of stomach sensitive ; painfulness of umbilical region ; abdominal muscles painful ; causes sore pain in upper part of chest ; of shoulder causes
pain ; causes tearing in both tibiæ ; pain in great toe ; parotid gland tender.
Pressure ; < pain in tumors on scalp ; stomach sore externally ; gastric region sensitive ; stomach bloated and painful ; lump in pit of stomach sensitive ; scrobiculus cordis painful ; right hypochondrium sensitive ; of hands on abdomen >
pain ; dull stitches in chest > ; tickling in glandular swelling of neck > ; causes no discomfort in affected leg ; ulcerative pain in tibia.
Can hardly bear pressure of clothing.
When resting limbs on any object, pains in them.
Driving : unsteadiness of heart.
Riding : < large painful hemorrhoids.
Riding in a carriage ; causes headache.
After a blow on left side : nephritis.
After a fall : pain in small of back.

Skin

Burning in various places on skin, even under axillæ, as from a mustard plaster.
Dryness of skin ; deficient perspiration.
Skin dry, itches ; > from scratching.
Herpetic spots on face ; old warts.
Yellow, scaly spots over abdomen or around nipples.
Burning, itching herpes ; moist after scratching.
Blotches after scratching ; corrosive vesicles.
Persons inclined to pulmonary troubles ; eruption dry at first, but when scratched exuding a moisture. θ Eczema.
Erysipelas.
From right to left side ; œdematous swelling under eyebrows ; insensible and delirious ; external cuticle peeling off, but skin left livid and purple ; when touched ever so slightly on feet, he jerks them up, much frightened ; talks of pigeons flying in room,
which he tries to catch with his hands ; gets regularly < about 3 A. M. θ Erysipelas bullosum capitis, suppressed by salve.
Swelling of parotid gland, right side ; restlessness ; groaning ; tossing about, < 2 or 3 A. M. θ Scarlet fever.
Scarlet fever with swelling of right parotid, tender to touch, mouth sore, lips and tongue black, painful, fetid, during desquamative stage.
Secondary erysipelas in an old lady, with chronic ulcers on left limb ; swelling of face, beginning about right eye, extending gradually downwards and also to left eye and left side of face ; enormous bags under both eyes ; also erysipelatous inflammation on left arm after
being scratched by a dog, whole lower arm and hand affected ; headache ; loss of appetite ; fever.
Itching of warts.
Tension, pressure, rending in scars.

Stage of life, constitution

Suitable for the aged ; rather obese ; lax fibre.
Dark hair, lax fibre, inclined to obesity.
Adapted to fleshy, aged people, and to complaints following parturition ; diseases characterized by stitching pains.
Adapted to diseases of old people, dropsies and paralysis.
After loss of fluids, or of vitality, especially in anemia.
Child, æt. 5 days ; suffocative catarrh.
Girl, æt. 20 months, lymphatic blonde, very delicate ; morbus coxarius.
Child, æt. 2 ; catarrh on chest.
Child, æt. 3 ; morbus coxarius.
Girl, æt. 3 1/2, suffering eight months ; morbus coxarius.
Boy, æt. 5, lymphatic, badly nourished, limping for three months ; morbus coxarius.
Girl, æt. 6, after measles ; cough.
Girl, æt. 6, good constitution, after measles ; cough.
Girl, æt. 7, suffering six months ; cough.
Girl, æt. 9, blonde, of rapid growth, affected last winter with an offensive eruption on scalp which was allowed to heal without treatment, mother asthmatic, every week ; spasmodic attacks.
Boy, æt. 11, four years ago had scarlet rash, which was followed by general anasarca ; affection of liver.
Boy, æt. 11, malaria nine months ago ; typhoid symptoms.
Boy, æt. 11, affection of stomach.
Boy, æt. 11, lymphatic, pale, slight figure, suffering three months ; morbus coxarius.
Girl, æt. 12, good constitution, nervo-sanguine temperament ; morbus coxarius.
Girl, æt. 13 ; pleurisy.
Boy, æt. 14, sanguine lymphatic, weakened by loss of semen ; morbus coxarius.
Boy, æt. 15, suffering four days ; toothache.
Boy, æt. 15, sound constitution ; febrile attacks.
Boy, æt. 16 ; dropsy.
Strong healthy girl, menses inclined to be late ; urticaria.
Girl, æt. 19 ; amenorrhœa.
Girl, æt. 20, after severe fright, three years previously ; amenorrhœa.
Woman, æt. 20, delicate, suffering one year ; asthma.
Servant girl, æt. 20, suffering one year ; gastralgia.
Girl, æt. 20, blonde ; affection of fauces.
Man, æt. 20, light hair, blue eyes, scrofulous ; cough.
Man, æt. 20 ; erysipelas.
Girl, æt. 20, delicate constitution, one year ago had asthma and pain in joints, since then suffering ; gastric disturbance.
Man, æt. 20, lymphatic, in bed six weeks ; morbus coxarius.
Man, æt. 21, since tenth year suffering from cough with expectoration ; phthisis.
Man, æt. 21 ; pneumonia.
Girl, æt. 21, blonde, weakly constitution ; affection of throat.
Woman, æt. 23, blonde, mother of three children, tuberculous, one year ago had abdominal troubles, for which she took much quinine, since then ill ; ulcer of stomach.
Woman, nervo-bilious temperament, seven years previously was in habit of taking enormous doses of magnesia to correct acidity of stomach during pregnancy, two years later confined again, and had prolapsus uteri and leucorrhœa ; attacks of bilious colic for last three or four
years ; affection of stomach.
Woman, suffering six years ; chronic catarrh.
Woman, after confinement, weakened by nursing, inclined to anemia ; metrorrhagia.
Woman, after great exertions from nursing sick children and taking cold ; catarrhal fever.
Anemic woman, after labor placenta retained by lower section of uterus, removed eighteen hours afterward by manipulation ; uterine hemorrhage.
Woman, æt. 24, mother of three children, had inflammation of eye and ulcer on cornea, during lactation ; conjunctivitis and leucoma.
Seamstress, æt. 24, atrabilious constitution, menses scanty ; cardialgia and headache.
Man, æt. 28, robust, after pneumonia ; cough.
Woman, æt. 29 ; gastricism.
Woman, æt. 30, suffering one week ; cough.
Woman, æt. 32 ; palpitation of heart.
Woman, æt. 35, suffering eight days ; affection of stomach.
Man, æt. 36, married ; constipation.
Farmer, æt. 40 ; rheumatism.
Woman, æt. 42, weakly constitution ; affection of stomach.
Woman, æt. 45, hard of hearing, rheumatic ; gastric disorder.
Mower, æt. 45, after drinking cold water while overheated ; affection of stomach.
Woman, æt. 51, sallow, medium flesh, expression of intense suffering ; hemorrhoids.
Man, æt. 60 ; ague.
Woman, æt. 60, seamstress, has frequently suffered with arthritic pains ; blepharitis.
Woman, æt. 65 ; asthma.
Old woman ; asthma.
Woman, æt. 67, for thirty years subject to arthritic attacks and severe paroxysms of pain in stomach, abdomen and limbs ; cardialgia.
Woman, æt. 71, just recovering from acute hepatitis, complicated by passage of biliary calculi ; stitches in liver and lumbar region.

Relations

Antidoted by : Camphora, Coffea, Spir. nitr. dulc .
Compatible : following Bryon., Lycop., Natr. mur., Nitr. ac . ; preceding Carbo veg., Phosphor., Fluor. ac . (cocalgia), Arsen., Lycop., Pulsat., Sepia, Sulphur .
Complementary : Carbo veg .
Compare : Natr. mur., Stannum .

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

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

Lecture

The Kali carb. patient is a hard patient to study, and the remedy itself is a hard one to study.

It is not used as often as it should be, and the reason is that it is a very complex and confusing remedy. It has a great many opposite symptoms, changing symptoms, and thus it is related to patients that withhold their symptoms and have many vague symptoms.

Mind

The patient is whimsical, irascible, irritable to the very highest degree, quarrels with his family and with his bread and butter. He never wants to be alone, is full of fear and imaginations when alone, "fear of the future, fear of death, fear of ghosts."

If compelled to remain alone in the house he is wakeful, sleepless, or his sleep is full of horrible dreams. He is never at peace, is full of imaginations and fear.

"What if the house should burn up!"

"What if I should do this or that!" and

"What if this and the other thing should happen! "

He is oversensitive to everything, sensitive to every atmospheric change; he can never get the room at just exactly the right temperature; he is sensitive to every draft of air and to the circulation of air in the room. He cannot have the windows open, even in a distant part of the house. He will get up at night in bed and look around to see where that draft of air comes from. His complaints are worse in wet weather, and in cold weather.

Pains

He is sensitive to the cold and is always shivering. His nerves feel the cold; they are all painful when it is cold. The neuralgias shoot here and there when it is cold, and if the part affected be kept warm, the pain goes to some other place. All his pains change place and go into the cold part; if he covers up one part, the pain goes to the part uncovered.

This remedy is full of sticking, burning, tearing pains, and these fly around from place to place. Of course Kali carb. has pains that remain in one place, but usually the pains fly, around in every direction, Pains cutting like knives. Pains like hot needles, sticking, stinging and burning.

These pains are felt in internal parts and dry passages. Burning in the anus and rectum, described as if a hot poker were forced into that passage; burning as with fire. The hemorrhoids burn like coals of fire. The burning of Kali carb. is like that of Arsenicum.

Again from studying the text it will be seen that it is a common feature of this medicine to have its symptoms come on at 2, 3 or 5 o'clock in the morning. In Kali carb. the cough will come or have its greatest < at three or four or five o'clock in the morning.

The febrile state will occur from 3-5 in the morning. The patient, who is subject to asthmatic dyspnoea, will have an attack at 3 o'clock in the morning, waking him out of sleep. He will wake up with various symptoms and remain awake until 5 o'clock in the morning, and after that to a great extent they are relieved.

Of course, there are plenty of sufferings at any time in the twenty-four hours, but this is the worst time. He wakes up at 3 o'clock in the morning with fear, fear of death, fear of the future, worries about everything and is kept awake for 2-3 hours and then goes to sleep and sleeps soundly.

His body is cold and requires much clothing to keep it warm, but in spite of the fact that he is cold he sweats copiously; copious, cold sweat upon the body. Sweats upon the slightest exertion, sweats where the pain is, sweat over the forehead; cold sweat on the forehead with headache.

Neuralgia of the scalp and the eyes and the cheek bones in association with the nervous shooting pains. Violent pains here and there in the head, as if the head would be crushed. Cutting and stabbing, in the head. Violent congestive headaches as if the head were full. Head hot on one side and cold on the other; forehead covered with cold sweat.

Nothing is more striking in Kali carb. than the wandering stitching, pains through the chest, and the coldness of the chest.

The great dyspnoea, the transient stitches, the pleural stitches are important features of this remedy. A great number of the cases in which Kali carb. is suitable are those where the trouble has spread from catarrhal origin and from the lower portion of the lungs upwards. It is not so commonly indicated in those cases where the dullness has begun at the apex of either or both lungs.

It will very often ward off future sickness where the family history is tuberculous. Do not be afraid to give the antipsoric remedies when there is a history of tuberculosis in the family, but be careful when the patient is so far advanced with tuberculosis that there are cavities in the lung, or latent tubercles, or encysted caseous tubercles.

Your antipsorics might rouse him into a dangerous condition. Do not suppose, however, that it is dangerous to give Sulphur because one's father and mother have died of phthisis. Sulphur might be just the remedy to prevent the child from following the father and mother.

Kali carb. is often suitable, and will act as ail acute remedy in the advanced stages of phthisis in cases in which it was not indicated primarily as a constitutional remedy. In such instances it will act as a palliative in phthisis, whereas if it were indicated primarily as a constitutional remedy it would do damage in the last weeks.

The fortunate thing is that a great many homeopaths are not able to find the homoeopathic remedy. If the patient has yet lung space enough to be cured, Kali carb. will do wonders where the symptoms agree.

Head

It has catarrhal congestive headache.

Whenever he goes out in the cold air, the nose opens up and the mucous membranes become dry and burn; when he returns into a warm room the nose commences to discharge, and the nose stuffs up so that he cannot breathe through it, and then he feels most comfortable; so that it has stuffing up of the nose in a warm room, and opening up of the nose in the open air. When the nose is open so that he can breathe through it, that is the time the head is most painful; it is painful to the cold air and the cold air makes it burn.

The cold air feels hot. All these patients suffer from a chronic catarrh and when they ride in the wind the catarrhal discharge ceases and then will come on a headache, and thus he has headache from riding in the cold wind.

Whenever the discharge ceases from taking cold in a draft on comes headache, and as the discharge becomes free again the headache is relieved. Neuralgic pains in eyes and scalp and through the cheek bones from a cessation of chronic catarrhal discharge, and when the discharge starts up again, these pain cease.

With the chronic catarrh of the nose there is a thick, fluent, yellow discharge; dryness of the nose, alternating with stuffing up. The one who suffers from a chronic catarrh will also have the discharge in the morning, which will fill up the nose with yellow mucus. In the morning he blows out and hawks up dry, hard crusts that fill up the nasal passage, clear over into the pharynx and down into the throat.

These crusts become dry as if they were partly formed upon the mucous membrane and when they are blown out there is bleeding. The bleeding starts from where the crusts are lifted up. He is subject to sore throat, is always taking cold, and it settles in the throat. He is also subject to enlarged tonsils and with these has enlargement and chronic hardness of the parotid glands-one or both. Great knots below the ear, behind the jaw.

These grow and become hard, and at times, painful; shooting, darting pains when he is moving about in the open air. When air strikes these enlarged glands they are sore and painful, and he is ameliorated by going into a warm place.

The acute colds extend into the chest, but Kali carb. has been found most suitable in the chronic catarrh of the chest, chronic bronchitis.

Chest

The chest is very often affected in just the same way as the nose.

There is the dryness and dry barking, hacking cough in cold air, but a copious expectoration of mucus when it becomes warm, and that is the time he is most comfortable, for the expectoration seems to relieve him. He suffers mostly from a dry, hacking cough with morning expectoration. The cough begins with a dry, hacking, increases gradually and sometimes very rapidly to a violent. Spasmodic cough with gagging or vomiting , and when coughing it feels as if his head would fly to pieces.

Face

The face becomes puffed, the eyes seem to protrude and then there is seen that which is commonly present in Kali carb., a peculiar sort of a swelling between the eyelids and eyebrows that fills up when coughing.

Your attention is called to that peculiar feature, for although there may be bloating nowhere else upon the face that little bagging will appear above the lid and below the eye brow. It fills up sometimes to the extent of a little water bag.

Such a swelling has been produced by Kali carb., and sometimes that symptom alone guides to the examination of the remedy for the purpose of ascertaining if Kali carb. does not fit all the rest of the case.

Boenninghausen speaks of an epidemic of whooping cough in which the majority of cases called for Kali carb., and this striking feature was present. No remedy should ever be given on one symptom. If you are led to a remedy by a peculiar symptom, study the remedy and the disease thoroughly to ascertain if the two are similar enough to each other to expect a cure. Any deviation from that rule is ruinous and will lead to the practice of giving medicines on single symptoms.

Dry, hacking incessant, gagging cough with whooping, blowing of blood from the nose, vomiting of everything in the stomach, and expectoration of blood-streaked mucus, is a whooping cough that will be commonly cured by Kali carb., but especially if there is present that peculiar and striking feature of a bag-like swelling below the eyebrow and above the lids, puffiness of the eyes.

There are some cases of pneumonia that need Kali carb, in the stage of hepatization (like Sulph.). Again, when pneumonia has passed away think of Kali carb. if every time the patient takes a little cold it settles in the chest with these symptoms that I have described.

There is sensitiveness of the body to weather changes, to cold air and to wet, a continuous dry, hacking cough, with gagging, the aggravation from three to five the morning, and the patient, has flying neuralgic pains. These symptoms gradually increase and the patient dates them back to his pneumonia. He says:

"Doctor, I have never been quite well since I had pneumonia."

The catarrhal state has settled in his chest and there is a chronic tendency to take cold. These cases are threatening to go into phthisis and will hardly be likely to recover without Kali carb. In this tendency for catarrhal states to locate in the chest, Kali carb. should be thought of as well as Phos phor ., Lycopod. and Sulphur.

Dropsies

Another general state that belongs to this remedy is a tendency to dropsies.

It has dropsies all over the body. The feet bloat and the fingers puff; the back of the hands pit upon pressure, the face looks puffy and waxy. The heart is weak. I can look back upon quite a number of cases of fatty degeneration of the heart in which I could have prevented all the trouble with Kali carb. if I had known the case better in the beginning.

These cases are insidious, and the indications calling for Kali carb. must be seen early or the patient will advance into an incurable condition. That peculiar state of weakness and feeble circulation that finally ends in dropsy and many other complications has its likeness in Kali carb.

There is an insidiousness about Kali carb. in the approach of all of its complaints.

He has a sort of nondescript appearance, he is withered, has much dyspnoea upon going up hill or even walking on the level. Examination of the lungs shows them to be in very fair condition, but finally complications come on, there is a break down and organic changes and you look back over these cases and say, if I had only seen in the beginning of this case what I see now it seems as if the patient ought to have been cured.

We learn the beginnings of remedies as we learn the beginnings of sickness. It is a prudent thing for a homoeopathic physician to glance back over a case that he has failed on, or someone else has failed on, to study its beginnings and see what the manifestations were. This kind of study to the homoeopathic physician is as delightful as post mortems are to the old school.

Teeth

The teeth present a peculiar state. The gums take on a scorbutic or scrofulous character. The gums separate from the teeth and the teeth decay and become discolored and loose, so that they have to be extracted early in life.

He suffers from pain in the teeth whenever he takes cold from riding in the wind and raw weather. The pains come on even when the teeth are not yellow or decayed: stitching, tearing, rending pains in the teeth. Offensive smell from the teeth; pus oozing out from around the teeth. The mouth is full of little ulcers, little aphthous patches. The mucous membrane is pale and ulcerates daily. The tongue is white with offensive taste; coated gray, with sick headaches.

While many of the symptoms of Kali carb, are aggravated after eating, some symptoms are relieved after eating. There is throbbing in the pit of the stomach when the stomach is empty. There is also throbbing all over the body, pulsation to the fingers and toes; there is no part that does not pulsate, and he is kept awake by this pulsation. Pulsation even when there is often no feeling of palpitation in the region of the heart. It has also violent palpitation of the heart.

Stomach

Kali carb. fits many old dyspeptics.

After eating be feels as if he would burst, so bloated is he. Great flatulence; belches wind upwards and passes flatus downwards; offensive flatus. The belching up is also attended with fluid eructations, sour fluids that set the teeth on edge; they excoriate, or cause smarting in the pharynx or mouth. Pain in the stomach after eating; burning in the stomach after eating.

Gone feeling in the stomach, that is not even relieved by eating. A peculiar condition in Kali carb. is a state of anxiety felt in the stomach, as though it were a fear. One of the first patients I ever had expressed it in a better way than it is expressed in the books; she said,

"Doctor, somehow or other I don't have a fear like other people do, because I have it in my stomach."

She said when she was frightened, it always struck to her stomach.

"If a door slams, I feel it right here" (epigastric region).

Well, that is striking, that is peculiar. It was not long before I developed another feature of Kali carb.

By a little awkwardness on my part my knee happened to hit the patient's foot as it projected a little over the edge of the bed, and the patient said, "Oh"

Sure enough that was Kali carb. again, for you will find in Kali carb. a patient that is afraid and everything goes to the stomach and when touched upon the skin there is an anxiety or fear or apprehension felt in the region of the stomach.

You might imagine that it is connected with the solar plexus, but the symptom is the all in all to the physician.

Feet

A Kali carb. patient is so sensitive in the soles of the feet that the mere touch of the sheet brings a sensation of thrill throughout the body. Hard pressure is all right, it does not disturb, but something that comes unawares excites.

The Kali carb. patient is over sensitive to all the surrounding things, over sensitive to touch; shivering from the simplest and lightest touch, even when hard pressure is agreeable. Violently ticklish in the soles of the feet. I have often examined the feet when a patient would shiver and draw up the feet and scream out,

"Don't tickle my feet."

I had probably touched it so lightly that I did not know that I had touched it at all.

In Lach. also gentle touch is painful, while hard pressure is agreeable but here it is not so much the ticklishness. In Lach. the abdomen is so sensitive that the touch of the sheet is painful. I have seen Lach. patients using a hoop to keep a light sheet from touching the abdomen. You may know then that you are in the realm of Lachesis, and that it is like those persons who are unable to bear the slightest touch upon the neck and suffer from uneasiness on wearing a collar.

All that, however, is different from this state of ticklishness. I have seen patients who are really so sensitive in the skin that I would not dare touch it, unless they knew just where I was going to touch.

"Now I am going to feel your pulse, hold still."

If I were to touch the hand, or reach out to feel the pulse without warning there would be a thrill.

Such a state is in keeping with Kali carb. These things often have to be dug out by observation in studying the nature of provings, and associating things. These things that run into the oversensitiveness of patients are of great value clinically. The capabilities of our Materia Medica are something wonderful, but they could be developed much more rapidly if a number of homoeopathic physicians would make application of the Materia Medica with accuracy and intelligence, observing what they see and relating it literally.

At the present day there is only a very small number of homoeopathic physicians that can come together in a body and say things that are worth listening to, a shamefully small number when we consider the length of time Hahnemann's books have been before the world.

Liver

There are many old chronic liver subjects who talk about nothing else but the liver.

Every time they go to the doctor's office they talk about the liver, and about a condition of fullness in the region of the liver and pain through the right shoulder blade and up through the right side of the chest, with a good deal of oppression and distension; vomiting of bile and a good deal of stomach disorder, fullness after eating; attacks of diarrhoea, alternating with constipation lasting for many days with great straining at stool.

Periodical bilious attacks, when a constipated state is present; cannot lie down at night; difficult breathing at night or at 3 o'clock in the morning, especially when it is in a patient over-sensitive to cold, damp weather, one who wants to sit by the fire all the time.

These liver subjects are often thoroughly cured by Kali carb. Sometimes they have been resorting to all sorts of liver tappings, taking such medicines as purge or cause vomiting, drugs that really aggravate the trouble. Kali carb. goes to the bottom of these cases, and roots out the evil.

Abdomen

In the abdomen we have many Kali carb. symptoms.

Persons subjected to repeated attacks of colic, cutting pains, with distension, with pain after eating, constipation or diarrhoea. Colic, with cutting, tearing pains, doubling him up, coming on every little while. Tremendous flatulence. When the attack of colic is on it might remind you of Colocynth or of some other of the acute remedies that cure colic in two or three minutes, but you will find that these acute remedies that relieve colic so speedily when given the second or third time do not produce so marked an effect.

You will find it necessary to hunt for an antipsoric, a remedy that will control the whole case. In the study of the colic alone during its attack you only get a one-sided view of the case, and after the colic is over (say he has been cured by Colocynth) you now study the patient and go over the case, and behold all the symptoms are covered by Kali carb. After giving that remedy you may expect that the patient will not have another attack.

Such is the nature of Kali carb. It is deep-acting, long-acting, goes deep into the life. It cures conditions due to psora, or to the suppression of eruptions in childhood, or to the closing up of old ulcers and fistulous openings with a history of troubles ever since. All these wandering pains and the chilliness are again relieved by eruptions, by the outbreak of discharges, by haemorrhages, by ulcers that eat in deep and flow freely and fistulous openings.

"Cutting in abdomen, as if torn to pieces."

"Violent cutting, must sit bent over pressing with both hands, or lean far back for relief; cannot sit upright."

"Cutting and drawing like false labor pains."

There is great coldness with the pains, with the cutting in the abdomen; he wants heat, hot drinks, hot water bags. A chronic coldness is felt in the abdomen, cold externally and internally.

It would sometimes be cruel to give a dose of Kali carb. when the colic is on, because if the remedy fitted the case constitutionally, if all the symptoms of the case were those of Kali carb., you would be likely to get an aggravation that would be unnecessary.

There are plenty of short acting remedies that would relieve the pain speedily, and at the close of the attack the constitutional remedy could then be given. If the patient can bear the pain to the end, it is better to wait until it passes off without any medicine.

That sometimes is cruel, and then the short acting medicines should be given. All recurrent troubles, those that come periodically, or after eating certain articles, or from exposure, or with a periodicity that belongs to time - all these states are chronic; they are not acute troubles.

They are simply a small portion of a chronic miasm, a side view and all such cases must have a constitutional remedy sooner or later. You can, it is true, relieve violent pain at the first visit, but then you must look deeper and prevent your patient having more trouble.

Otherwise, if you should give Bell. or Colocynth or any medicine that simply fits the colic, the trouble will come back again; you have not cured your patient; you have only palliated. But, on the other hand, you take such a colic as is described here and Kali carb. fits just these symptoms alone and does not fit the whole constitution of the patient.

Then it is that a constitutional and long-acting remedy like Kali carb. acts in fullness. It does not take the usual long time to act and is not attended with an aggravation.

"Abdominal muscles painful to touch; swelling of glands."

In the abdomen, also following troubles in the bowels, or following peritonitis, we have effusion into the peritoneal sac, which is usually associated with dropsy of the extremities, but not always. In liver dropsies especially is that remedy useful.

Rectum

It has a great many complaints of the rectum and anus and of the stool.

It has most persistent and enormous hemorrhoidal tumors that burn, that are extremely sensitive to touch, that bleed copiously, that are extremely painful, making it impossible for him to sleep. He is compelled to lie upon the back and hold the nates apart, because the pressure is very painful to the external piles.

The piles cannot be put back; there is great distension and swelling inside. Haemorrhoids that come out after stool and bleed copiously and are very painful; they must be pushed back, and long after going to bed they burn like fire.

There is great aggravation from stool, which is hard and knotty and requires great straining to expel. Fistulae of the anus. Burning temporarily relieved by sitting in cold water.

It has chronic diarrhoea and also diarrhea alternating with constipation. Many times where there are numerous particulars, we have to rely upon the generals that are characteristic of the remedy. The text gives much less of diarrhea than has been developed by clinical uses.

"Diarrhoea painless, with rumbling in the abdomen and burning at stool, only by day; chronic cases with puffiness under the eyebrows."

It gives few symptoms, but it is a large and extensive remedy in diarrheas that are chronic. In old, broken down subjects, in weakly, pallid subjects, with poor digestion, with great flatulence, with much distension, with disordered liver.

Kidneys, Bladder

Then the kidney, bladder and urethra come in for their share of trouble, which is of a catarrhal nature.

Discharges from the bladder, purulent discharges of a thick, tenacious, copious mucus deposited in the urine. In keeping with this there is much burning; burning in the urethra, during and after micturition.

"Urine flows slowly with soreness and burning."

Kali carb. runs very close to Natr. mur. in many of its old, long-standing bladder troubles, In old cases of gleet and long-standing cases of urinary troubles that follow gonorrhea these two medicines are useful, both suitable in the scanty, white, gleety discharge that remains. In both the urination is painful.

In Nat. mur. the burning is after urination. Where there is scanty, gleety discharge and the burning is very marked and only after urination, and the patient is extremely nervous and fidgety, Natrum mur. will cure.

If the burning is during and after urination and you have the broken down constitution we have described then the remedy may be Kali carb. Some of these old cases are entirely painless, having no pain either during or after micturition.

Then you get an entirely different class of remedies. The old chronic discharges following a gonorrhoea are as troublesome for the young doctor as anything that will ever fall into his hands. The remedies are numerous, the symptoms are scanty, and many times the patient has not been long under the doctor's care, therefore he does not know the patient's constitutional state well and the patient can only tell him of the discharge.

"Nothing but the discharge, doctor."

You cannot get his mind on his symptoms; he has forgotten that he wakes at 3 o'clock in the morning and cannot get to sleep until 5 o'clock, he has forgotten all the nervous manifestations. With the patient you have had under control, whose constitutional state you get before this condition comes, you ought not to have much difficulty.

One of the evidences that the Kali carb. patient is of a weakly constitution and is on the road to a break-down is that all of his symptoms are aroused and brought into action after coition, after sexual excitement. Now you will take notice in practice and remember it, that coition is a natural thing with man, when it is carried on in order, and when that which is natural is followed by prostration, and this has been so for a long time, there is a break in the constitution, there is something radically wrong.

Genitals

All the symptoms are likely to be worse after coition in Kali carb. He has weak vision, weakness of the senses, tremulousness, and is generally nervous; he is sleepless, and weak, and he shivers and trembles for a day or two after coition.

Similar symptoms are observed in the woman. In spite of the fact that the patient is weak, the sexual desire is excessive. It is not orderly. There is a sexual erethism, which is not under the command of the will, and in the male he is subject to copious and frequent pollutions, nightly dreams, sexual prostration. Young men who have abused themselves, or who have indulged excessively in sexual pleasure, go into marriage with weakened genitals, incapacitated; and then there comes a disgust, and it is not strange that there are so many divorces in the world. When the patient is young, some of this trouble can be overcome by living an orderly life and correct Homeopathy.

In Kali carb. there are many complaints affecting the male genital organs; uneasiness and sensitiveness of the testicles. One is in a state of swelling and hardness. Itching and smarting and annoying sensations in the scrotum and sensations that constantly remind the patient that he has genital organs. Constant irritation calling his attention to the genitals, brought on from abuse, from vice, from excesses. Phosphorus is a medicine that is abused in this sphere. Many physicians look upon it as one of the great remedies for the weakness of the genital organs.

In Phos. the genital indications are extreme excitement, too active erections, a disorderly strength of the genital organs. Beware of giving it in impotency or in weakness, as this is often associated with very feeble constitutions, and Phos. not only fails to cure, but seems to add to the weakness. It is a weakness that you will learn is a vital weakness. Phos. will set patients to running down more rapidly who are suffering from a vital weakness, who are always tired, simply weak, always prostrated and want to go to bed.

The female has a great friend in Kali carb. It is full of her complaints and has many symptoms likely to be found in a sick woman. It is useful in cases of uterine hemorrhages that have been incessant in pale, waxy, hemorrhagic women; incessant haemorrhage following an abortion.

She has been curetted and has had all sorts of treatment, but still that oozing keeps right on. At the menstrual period the flow is very copious and clotted, and then after prolonged menstruation of ten days or so, during which she has had a copious flow, she settles back into a state of oozing and flowing until next month and then it rouses, up into another ten days of copious menstruation. Kali carb. has cured a number of cases of fibroid tumor long before it was time for the critical period to cure.

You must remember that there is natural tendency for a fibroid to cease to grow at the climacteric period, and afterwards to shrivel and that this takes place without any treatment, but the appropriate remedies will cause that haemorrhage to cease, will cause that tumor to cease to grow and after a few days there will be a grand shrinkage, in its size.

Pregnancy

Kali carb. is often a remedy for vomiting in pregnancy, but find out when it is the remedy for vomiting of pregnancy we ha to go to the whole constitutional state.

Vomiting of pregnancy is not cured, although it may be temporarily relieved, by Ipeca, as this is a medicine that corresponds merely to the nausea its. In a large number of instances gagging and nausea are only a second or third grade symptom in the remedy that will cure. The condition really depends upon the constitutional state, and the remedy th is to cure must be a constitutional remedy. Sulphur, Sepia and Kali carb. are among the remedies commonly indicated.

Sometimes Arsen is needed. Of course, if a pregnant woman has simply disordered her stomach and has vomited bile a few times the remedy might be Ipeca . When a pregnant woman has no constitutional symptom at all, and upon examining the case you find nothing but the nausea, overwhelming deathly nausea, with continuous vomiting day an night, a single dose of Symphoricarpus rac. will help.

That is prescribing upon very limited information, and should only be done in circumscribed or one-sided cases. It is not a long acting remedy, it is not a constitutional remedy and acts very much like Ipecac.

At times you will go into the confinement room when the woman has pains in the back below the waist line. The pains in the uterus are very weak, they are not sufficiently expulsive to make progress in the labor, the kind of pain that makes the woman utter the cry,

"My back, my back!"

The pains extend down the buttocks and legs. Pain in the back as if the back would break. Under good prescribing these pains are changed into contractions, which prove sufficient to expel the contents of the uterus.

When you hear such things you will look back over the history of the case. You will look back for weeks as th woman has been drawing near the end of gestation and see that the vague things, the chilliness and other features in her constitutional state for which you have been trying to find a remedy now culminate at the time of her confinement into a class of pain. Had you seen that six weeks before and given her Kali carb. you would have prevented the severe labor.

It is a severe labor, a prolonged labor; the uterus appears to be weak, and the pains are feeble they are all in the back, and do not go to the centre of operation as they should. Now, this same kind of a pain may deceive you in taking another form. The pains begin in the back, and appear to go to the uterus and then run up the back, which would turn you aside entirely from the Kali carb. pain into a pain that would indicate Gelsemium.

Sometimes these pains are so severe that they actually seem to prevent rather than encourage the contractions of the uterus; when the contractions of the uterus cease, and the woman screams out and wants her hips rubbed, and screams out with pain in each side of the abdomen rather than in the centre, pains in the region where the broad ligaments ought to be, Actea racemosa will make the pains regular.

Puls. is the medicine for absence of marked contraction, in cases inclined to do nothing; in a case that is inactive when the os is sufficiently dilated and the parts relaxed, and the prediction is an easy and simple labor, but the patient does not do anything. It is a state of mildness or inactivity. Puls. will very often cause in five minutes a very strong contraction of the uterus, sometimes almost, in a painless way.

"The back aches so badly while she is walking that she feels as if she could lie down on the street," etc..

The pain seems to take the force and vigor all out of the patient. After delivery there is a tendency to prolong the flooding, rousing up at every menstrual period, as described.

Heart

Weakness of the heart, cardiac dyspnea; the breath is short and the patient cannot walk or must move very slowly.

It is the coming on of a fatty heart.

With the suffocation and dyspnoea the breathing is so short that the patient cannot stop to take a drink or eat; the breathing is rapid, not deep, but weak. Dyspnea with violent, irregular palpitation of the heart, throbbing that shakes the whole frame, pulsation that can be felt to the ends of the fingers and toes.

Violent pulsations; patient cannot lie on the left side; accompanied by stitching pain through the chest, and cough. In old asthmatic patients with weak pulse, with the same pulsations and palpitation and cannot lie down.

The only position it seems that be can find any comfort in is leaning forward, with his elbows resting upon a chair. The attack is violent and continuous, especially worse from 3 to 5 A.M., and worse from lying in bed. He is aroused at 3 o'clock in the morning with these asthmatic attacks. Asthmatic dyspnea, when the state is that of humid asthma or filling up of the chest with mucus, course rattling in the chest, loud rattling breathing.

In patients who always have rattling in the chest, rattling cough, stuffy breathing; with every rainy spell or misty spell, or in cold, foggy weather, the condition becomes that of a humid asthma; asthmatic breathing, with much weakness in the chest, worse from 3 to 5 in the morning. The patient is pale, sickly and anemic, and complains of stitching pains in the chest.

The cough

of this medicine is one of the most violent coughs of all the medicines in the Materia Medica. The whole frame is racked. The cough is incessant, attended with gagging and vomiting, comes on at 3 o'clock in the morning, a dry, hacking, hard, racking cough.

"Suffocative cough and choking cough at 5 A.M.

Great dryness in the throat between 2 and 3 A.M."

Think of Kali carb. when, after troubles like measles, a catarrhal state is left behind, due to lack of reaction, the psoric sequelae. The cough following measles is very often a Kali carb. cough. Kali carb. Sulphur, Carbo veg. and Drosera are perhaps more frequently indicated than other medicines in such coughs as follow measles of pneumonia.

The expectoration is copious, very offensive, tenacious, lumpy, blood-streaked or like pus, thick yellow or yellowish-green. Very often it has a pungent, cheesy taste, strong taste, as of old cheese. Catarrh of the chest. Dry cough day and night, with vomiting of food and some phlegm, worse after eating and drinking and in the evening.

Gout

I want to warn you in one respect concerning Kali carb. It is a very dangerous medicine in gout. When you get an old gouty subject who has big toe joints and finger joints, and they are sore and inflamed every now and then, you might think that Kali carb. covers the case very suitably; he is disturbed in just such weather, he is pallid and sickly, his complaints come on at 2 to 3 o'clock in the morning, he has the shooting pains.

But these gouty patients are often incurable, and, if so, to undertake to cure them, would be a dreadful calamity, because the aggravations would last so long. If you give Kali carb. to one of these incurable patients in very high potency it will make your patient worse, and the aggravation will be serious and prolonged, but the 30 th may be of great service. Kali iod., when it is indicated in the gouty state, acts as a soothing and palliative remedy.

But Kali carb. seems to be a dreadful medicine to handle, it is a sharp and a two-edged sword. Do not undertake to give medicine with a view to curing these old cases of gout when the nodosities are numerous. Do not give that constitutional medicine that should have been administered to these patients twenty years ago, because there is not reaction enough in the life of the patient to turn him into order, and he will be destroyed. It seems paradoxical to say it, but to cure him is to kill him.

The vital action that is necessary to restore him to health would practically tear his framework to pieces. You need not believe these things, you are not obliged to. But think about them, and some day after practicing awhile and making numerous mistakes in attempting to cure incurables you will admit the awful power of homeopathic medicines.

They are simply dreadful. In old gouty cases, in old cases of Bright's disease, in advanced cases of phthisis where there are many tubercles, beware of Kali carb. given too high.

While studying the text book, look over the sensations. They are very numerous. Of course, those most striking are the stitching, and tearing pains, shooting, sticking and wandering pains.

The Therapeutics of Fevers

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

Characteristic

Adapted to diseases of old people, dropsies and paralyses ; dark hair, lax fibre, inclined to obesity (Am. c., Graph.).

After loss of fluids or of vitality, particularly in the anæmic (deficient vitality, lack of susceptibility to medicinal action, Carbo v.).

Pains ; stitching, darting, < during rest and lying on affected side (stitching, darting, > during rest, and lying on painful side, Bry.).

Cannot bear to be touched; starts when touched ever so lightly, especially on the feet.

Great aversion to being alone (Ars., Bis., Lyc.—desire to be alone, Ign., Nux).

Bag like swellings between upper lids and eyebrows.

Weak eyes ; after coition, abortion, measles.

Nosebleed when washing the face in the morning (Am. c., Arn.).

Toothache : only when eating; throbbing ; < when touched by anything warm or cold.

Stomach : distended, sensitive ; feels as if it would burst ; excessive flatulency; everything she eats or drinks appears to be converted into gas (Carbo v., Iod.).

Backache, sweating, weakness; after abortion, labor, metrorrhagia; when eating; while walking feels as if she must give up and lie down.

Asthma, relieved when sitting up or bending forward or by rocking (Ars.); worse from 2 to 4 A. M.

Cough: dry, paroxysmal, loosens viscid mucus or pus which must be swallowed; spasmodic with gagging or vomit-ing of ingesta; hard, white or smoky masses fly from throat when coughing (Bad., Chel.).

Feels bad, week before menstruation; backache, before and during menses.

Labor pains insufficient; violent backache; wants the back pressed (Caust.).

Will bring on the menses, when Natrum muriaticum, though indicated, fails.—Hahnemann.

"Persons suffering from ulceration of the lungs can scarcely get well without this antipsoric."—Hahnemann.

Relations

Complementary to Carbo vegetabilis.

Aggravation

From 2 to 4 A. M., nearly all ailments, especially those of throat and chest; cold air; becoming cold; rest, and lying on painful side.

Amelioration

Warmth; getting warm; eructations.

Type

Quotidian; same every day. Intermittent, remittent or continued fevers with whooping-cough (Dros.).

Time

9 A. M., 12 M. 5 to 6 P. M.

Fever, without chill, 9 A. M.

Chill

With thirst; great chilliness after eating (Mar. v.), and towards evening (Nux). Chilliness on every motion, even in bed (Nux, Hep.). Chilliness, then heat, then chilliness again.

Chill towards evening, relieved near the warm stove and after lying down (relieved by external heat, Ars., Ign.—increased by external heat, Apis, Ipec.). Chill with the pains (Puls.—all symptoms worse during chill, Ars.); increased out of doors (increased while going from a warm room into the open air, Puls.). Constant chilliness; violent thirst from internal heat; hot hands; and aversion to food; with oppression of breathing; constriction of chest; pain in right hypochondrium. After the chill, nausea and vomiting of bile.

" Violent chill towards evening for some minutes; he must lie down; followed by nausea, vomiting and spasmodic pain in the chest through the whole night, with short breath and much internal anxiety and much perspiration."—HAHNEMANN.

Heat

Without thirst, with long yawning, stitching pains in head and chest, pulsations in abdomen. Internal heat, external chilliness (Arn., Cal., Thuja—chills intermingled with heat, Ars.) Chill and heat, with dyspnœa. Dry heat of the cheeks and hands, with shortness of breath. Redness and heat in the face, with icy coldness of the feet (Sep.).

Sweat

All night without relief (Hep.—sweat relieves, Lach.). Sweat of axilla and perineum; of upper parts of body; after eating; perspires easily on least exertion. Sweat on every mental exertion, reading, writing, etc. (Hep., Psor., Sep. Sul.—on least physical exertion, Bry.). Profuse warm sweat, with much heat, from 12 to 3 A. M.

Tongue

Coated white; tip of tongue sore, burns as if raw or covered with blisters. Taste bad; bitter; flat.

Pulse

Rapid mornings, slower in evening, unequal, irregular, intermitting; throbbing in blood-vessels; tendency to fatty heart.

Apyrexia

Chest feels constricted; right hypochondrium painful and tender to touch. Excessive aversion to food, especially bread. Intense thirst, morning, noon and night. In the morning bad taste in the mouth; want of appetite; aversion to food, especially bread. Agglutination of the eyelids.

Analysis

Chill; after eating; from every motion; < in open air, > by warmth.

Heat; without thirst; yawning, stitching pains in head and chest; dyspnœa; internal heat, external chilliness.

Sweat; on every mental exertion; all night without relief.