Mephitis meph.

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

Nerves.

Worse

Lying. Night. After menses.

Better

Cold bath or weather.

General

Spasmodic effects. Foul breath and expectoration. Debility after severe illness. Trembling and twitching of exophthalmos.

Particulars

Excitable. Loquacious. Vivid fancies. Violent vertigo. As of a finger pressing on occiput. Food goes the wrong way. Chokes easily. Can't exhale. Asthma. Asthma of consumptives or drunkards. Cough; violent; spasmodic; nervous; suffocative; whooping; < talking or drinking. Choking cough.

Related

Related: Coral. Mosch.

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

Whooping, or any kind of cough, which is very violent, coming on spasmodically and seeming as though each spell would terminate life.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Skunk (MEPHITIS)

General

A great medicine for whooping-cough. In order to insure its full success, it should be given in the lower dilutions from 1x to 3x. Suffocative feeling, asthmatic paroxysms, spasmodic cough; cough so violent, seems as if each spell would terminate life. Child must be raised up, gets blue in face, cannot exhale, Mucous rales through upper part of chest. Patient wants to bathe in ice-cold water.

Mind

Excited, full of fancies. Can neither sleep nor work.

Eyes

Pain from overexertion; blur; unable to distinguish letters; conjunctiva red; eyes hot and painful.

Mouth

Painful jerks in root of teeth. Bloated face. Coppery taste, as after eating onions.

Respiratory

Sudden contraction of glottis, when drinking or talking. Food goes down wrong way. False croup; cannot exhale. Spasmodic and whooping-cough. Few paroxysms in day-time, but many at night; with vomiting after eating. Asthma, as if inhaling sulphur; cough from talking; hollow, deep, with rawness, hoarseness, and pains through chest. Violent spasmodic cough; worse at night.

Sleep

Awakes at night with rush of blood to lower legs. Vivid dream of water, fire, etc.

Relationship

Compare: Dros; Coral; Sticta.

Dose

First to third potency. Has a very short action.

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

Great talkativeness as if he were intoxicated. Excited, with heat of the head. Angry about trifles or about imaginary things. The fancies are so vivid that he is unfitted, for mental labor.

Head

Numb and dull, with the sensation as if the head became enlarged, with ill-humor and, nausea. Vertigo when stooping ; sudden vertigo while sitting. Vertigo when turning in bed. Headache while riding in a carriage. Pain over the eyes. Violent pain the head, as if a fulness were pressing upwards. Heaviness and heavy pressure in the back part of the head, as if fingers were pressing on it.

Eyes

Pain in the eyes when turning them in certain directions. Pain as if something had lodged in the eyes. Pain in the eyes as from over-exertion. Stitches in the eyes as from needles. Heat and burning of the eyes. Pressing on the lids with burning of the margins, as if a stye would form. Inability to read fine print. The letters become blurred, he is unable to discern them, they run together. The weakness of sight in generally accompanied by headache and pain in the eyes.

Ears

Erysipelas of the ear, with itching, heat, redness and blisters.

Nose

Dry nose ; bleeding from the nose.

Mouth and Throat

Sudden jerks in the roots of the teeth. Coppery taste in the mouth.

Stomach and Abdomen

Nausea with emptiness in the stomach, and sensation as if the head were distended. Pressure in the stomach, and colic. Rheumatic pain in the region of the liver.

Stool and Anus

Stools rare but soft.

Urinary Organs

Frequent micturition with clear urine. The urine is turbid in the morning, after evening fever.

Sexual Organs

Men. Warmth of the genitals. Itching of the scrotum. Women. Soreness of the genitals and swelling of the labia.

Respiratory Organs

When drinking or talking, liability to have something get into the larynx. Cough with fluent coryza and soreness in the chest. Coughing from talking or reading aloud. Rattling cough every morning. Hooping-cough, worse at night and after lying down ; with convulsions ; with complete suffocative feeling, he can not exhale ; vomiting of all the food some hours after eating ; bloated face. Pains in the chest (on the last left short rib) when touching and pressing on it ; but especially when coughing and sneezing.

Back

Stitches in the spinal column during motion. Pain in the back and all the limbs, with lameness. Tension and pain in the right side of the neck.

Extremities

Upper. Rheumatic pains in the arms relieved on motion. Restlessness in the left arm with insensibility. Trembling of the arm when leaning on it. Twitching with the hands. Lower. Rheumatic pains from the hips down to the feet. Restlessness in the lower limbs as if they were to become insensible : the knee feels bruised. Stitches in the feet. Cramp pain in the (left) foot. Arthritic pain in the heel. Pain in the big toe as if it were being pinched off. Corns with pain and burning.

Generalities

Rheumatic pains. Wandering pains, with much pressure to urinate and shocks. Sensation of lameness, especially with the pains. Fine, nervous vibrations, reaching to the interior of the bones, causing a good deal of anxiety. Inclination to stretch oneself, with disinclination to do any thing.

Sleep

Frequent yawning with lachrymation. Sleepiness during the day, even when in company. Wakens from sleep at night with congestion of blood to the lower legs. Nightmare. Vivid dreams which he well recollects. He wakens early and feels very well.

Fever

Chilliness in the evening, with desire to urinate and colic, as if diarrhœa would set in. Increased warmth, especially in the morning. Warmth at night (genitals, head and lower legs). Less chilliness than usual in cold weather, and no more aversion to cold washing. Washing in ice-cold water causes a pleasant sensation.

Conditions

Sensation of coldness, and restlessness predominates. The cough is worse at night, and causes great distress when inhaling.

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

Mephitis putorius. Skunk. N. O. Mustelidæ. Alcoholic dilution of the liquid contained in the anal glands.

Clinical

Asthma. Blindness. Choking, easy. Cold, sensitiveness to. Eyes, affections of. Laryngismus. Sight, weak. Whooping-cough.

Characteristics

Mephitis was proved by Hering in the 30th. Among the symptoms he developed was "choking while eating or drinking," and "cough on reading aloud, while talking, and after drinking; caused by choking." Lower ribs painful to touch or pressure, esp. < on coughing or sneezing. Neidhard gave Meph . to "a young man afflicted with symptoms of consumption," in whom it produced "a spasmodic cough with a crowing sound, lasting all night and returning several times." This homœopathic aggravation suggested to Neidhard to use Meph . in whooping-cough, and this is his conclusion, quoted by Hering: "If the facts collected since 1851, which are numerous, do not prove that Meth . will supersede all other remedies in whooping-cough, it certainly may be considered a valuable specific. In order to ensure its full success, it should be exhibited in the lower dilutions, from one to three, at least in severe cases." Guernsey gives it as: "Whooping, or any other kind of cough which is very violent, coming on spasmodically, and seeming as though each spell would terminate life." Farrington says the note of Meph . is nervous exhaustion. In whooping-cough the catarrh is slight, whoop decided; < at night and after lying down. Suffocative feeling; cannot exhale ; vomits food sometimes hours after eating. Asthma of drunkards; of consumptives (after Dros .). T. M. Stewart reports ( H. R ., xvi. 71) the case of a man, 47, who had a constant hacking cough coming on during conversation. For this the uvula was amputated. As soon as he recovered from the operation the condition was this: "Coughs after reading aloud, or drinking any fluid; cough spasmodic, hollow, hoarse, < at night and on lying down; loose in mornings." Amb., Cham., K. bi., Rumex, Pho ., failed to relieve; Meph . 1m. cured promptly. ─ Another point about Meth . is the rush of warmth it causes to various parts. It enables patients to endure extreme cold; makes them less chilly in cold weather. Washing in ice-water is pleasant. Awakens at night with congestion to legs. Legs uneasy as if they would become insensible. Fidgety feet. A short sleep seems to refresh. A. M. Cushing calls attention to the possibilities of the remedy in weak sight ( H. R ., iv. 237), and tells of a friend of his who had a dose direct from the skunk injected into his eyes: "It was as though fire had entered his eyes." For a time he was totally blind; but when his sight returned it was so keen that he could count the panes in a window said to be two miles distant. In another case, after getting the poison out of the eye, there was for weeks after a sensation on opening the lids as of breaking glass. On Farrington's advice it was antidoted by Crotal . Rest and lying down < . Sitting up and motion > . < Night and daybreak. Warm stove > colic from cold. > Cold washing. Ice-water < asthma. Touch < .

Relations

According to Hering, Meph. has a very short action. Antidoted by: Camph., but only temporarily. Crotal. relieved eye symptoms. Follows well: Dros. (in cough of consumptives). Compare: Whooping-cough, Coral. (Coral has smothering before the cough and great exhaustion after). Dros. (Dros. has frequent spells of barking cough; < after twelve midnight; holds sides; vomits if cannot raise sputa). Cough < from reading or writing, Aur., Nux, Plat. Cough in night, Rumex ( < 2 a.m.), Sticta (with splitting headache). Awakes at night with congestion to legs, Aur. Short sleep seems to refresh, Flu. ac., Menth. Night-blindness, Bell. Aversion to tobacco-smoke, Ign. Easy choking, Lach. Fidgety feet, Tarent., Meny., Zinc., Caust., Ars., Asaf., Asar., Act. r., Aur., Sticta. Loquacity, Agar., Lach. Nervous symptoms generally, Castor, Mosch.

Mind

Ill-humour about trifles or imaginary troubles. ─ Unfitness for intellectual labour, caused by too lively an imagination, excessive loquacity, as from drinking too much. ─ Excitement, with heat in head. ─ Dejection, with painful muscles. ─ Indolence, with desire to stretch.

Head

Vertigo on stooping suddenly, when seated, when moving the head, when turning in bed, or in the evening. ─ Confused dulness in the head, as if it had grown larger, accompanied by ill-humour and nausea. ─ Violent headache, with sensation of fulness, as if caused by a weight or by pressure, esp. in the occiput. ─ Violent pain in head as if a fulness were pressing upwards. ─ Sensation in (back of head) various parts, as if the finger were pressed into them. ─ Pain above eyes. ─ Headache from motion of a carriage, or else in evening.

Eyes

Lancination in eyes like the pricking of needles. ─ Pains in eyes on turning them (in certain directions), as if some foreign body were in them, or as if they were much fatigued. ─ Heat, burning, and aching in eyes, esp. morning and evening. ─ As of fire thrown into eye. ─ Sensation on opening the lids as of breaking glass. ─ Aching (pressing) of eyelids, and burning on margins, as if a stye were forming. ─ Injection of veins in sclerotica. ─ Redness of conjunctiva, as from ecchymosis. ─ Myopia. ─ Confusion of letters when reading (they become blurred, he is unable to discern them, they run together). ─ Inability to read small print. ─ Nocturnal blindness. ─ While the sight is weak there are generally pains in eyes or head. ─ Eyes affected principally in evening.

Ears

Tearing in the ears, or in the jaw and teeth. ─ Otalgia. ─ Itching heat, redness, blisters, and erysipelas in the external part of the (r.) ear.

Nose

Dryness of the nose. ─ Epistaxis. ─ Prolonged inclination to sneeze. ─ Fluent coryza, with pain, as from excoriation in the chest.

Teeth

Pains in teeth which are carious (molars), esp. in lower jaw. ─ Sudden shocks in roots of teeth. ─ Drawing and tearing in teeth.

10, 11. Appetite and Stomach. ─ Nausea, with scraping in throat (emptiness in stomach), and sensation as if the head were swollen, when fasting. ─ Sobbing eructations. ─ Risings, > by discharge of flatus. ─ Tendency to choke, when drinking and speaking. ─ Troublesome and ineffectual want to hawk. ─ Metallic (coppery) taste. ─ Desire for salted food. ─ Hunger, alternating with absence of appetite. ─ Absence of appetite in morning, and also repugnance to tobacco-smoke. ─ Painful weariness, and desire to sleep after a meal.

Abdomen

Pains in hypochondria. ─ Rheumatic pains in r. side (pressure), or pains as from flatulency (in l. side). ─ Aching (in region of liver) in stomach, with colic. ─ Sensation of emptiness in stomach and nausea. ─ Colic, as from diarrhœa, but without evacuation. ─ Aching and movements in abdomen, as if caused by a chill, with sensation of coldness, trembling, and want to urinate, relieved when near fire. ─ Pains in abdomen in evening.

Stool and Anus

Evacuations infrequent, but liquid. ─ Diarrhœa.

Urinary Organs

Frequent want to make water, esp. at night, with emission of clear urine. ─ The urine becomes turbid (in morning), and deposits a sediment, in evening, after an attack of fever.

Male Sexual Organs

Itching in scrotum. ─ Heat in genital organs.

Female Sexual Organs

Excoriation of genital organs, in females, and swelling of labia majora.

Respiratory Organs

Cough when reading aloud, when speaking, and after a fit of choking whilst drinking (liability to have something get into larynx). ─ Cough in morning, with expectoration proceeding from catarrh. ─ Mucus expelled by a fit of coughing every morning. ─ Catarrhal sufferings. ─ Pains in (l.) ribs, when touched, but esp. when coughing and sneezing. ─ Cough with fluent coryza and soreness in chest. ─ Pain, as from excoriation, in back part of ribs, and in chest, when taking a deep inspiration, and when moving the back. ─ Rattling cough every morning. ─ Whooping-cough, < at night and after lying down; with convulsions; with complete suffocative feeling, he cannot exhale; vomiting of all food some hours after eating, bloated face. ─ Pains in chest (on last l. short rib) when touching and pressing on it; but esp. when coughing and sneezing. ─ Asthma, as from inhaling vapour of sulphur; of drunkards; during sleep.

Neck and Back

Pains in (r.) side of neck. ─ Tension in muscles of nape. ─ Pain, and a sort of paralysis, in back and in all limbs. ─ Lancination in spine during motion. ─ Contusive pains in loins in morning.

Upper Limbs

Rheumatic pains in arms, with paralytic drawings, > by movement. ─ Uneasiness in (l.) arm, which is, as it were, insensible. ─ Trembling in arm on resting upon it. ─ Jerking in hand. ─ Distressing sensation in first phalanx of finger, which renders it needful to stretch and crack it.

Lower Limbs

Drawing and rheumatic pains in thighs, hip, and foot, but chiefly in leg. ─ Contusive pains in knee. ─ Cramp-like and sudden pain in (l.) foot, which causes patient to hop. ─ Uneasiness in legs, as if they were about to go to sleep. ─ Lancinations in foot. ─ Pain in heel, resembling gout. ─ Pricking or sensation of pinching in great toe (as if it were being pinched off). ─ Burning in little toe. ─ Constant pains and burning in corns.

Generalities

Rheumatic pains. ─ Shifting pains, with want to urinate. ─ Occasionally a sensation as if struck by electric sparks. ─ Convulsions. ─ Sensation of paralysis, esp. during the pains. ─ Great dejection and lassitude, during which the muscles are painful when touched or exercised. ─ Indolence, with desire to stretch, and stretching. ─ Internal agitation of whole body, with sensation of unspeakable uneasiness. ─ Slight quivering of the nerves, as far as interior of bones, causing a good deal of anxiety. ─ Many symptoms manifest themselves in morning.

Sleep

Great inclination to sleep, so great that patient will fall asleep even when in company. ─ Diurnal sleepiness, with sound sleep at night. ─ Frequent yawning, which causes tears to flow. ─ Very vivid dreams, the recollection of which is retained. ─ Dreams of fire, water, distressing losses, of spitting of blood, &c. ─ Nightmare. ─ Asthma during sleep. ─ Waking at night, with rush of blood to, and heat in limbs (lower legs). ─ Somnolent heaviness in morning, with burning in eyes and tearing in limbs; greatly > by a change of position. ─ Frequent and early waking, often with a feeling of good health.

Fever

Coldness in evening, with want to make water, and colic, as if preceding diarrhœa. ─ Heat in head, in genital organs and in legs, at night. ─ Increased heat, esp. in morning, with skin less sensitive to cold and cold water. ─ Washing with cold water is found very agreeable.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

General

Skunk. Mustelidæ.
The alcoholic dilution is prepared from the liquid contained in the glands of the animal.
Introduced by Hering ; symptoms obtained from the 30th dilution, and from inhaling the substance while preparing the dilutions. Also proved, in 1853, by Cowley, through Neidhard, MSS. (Not contained in Allen's Encyclopædia ).
"If the facts collected since 1851, which are numerous, do not prove that Mephitis will supersede all other remedies in whooping cough, it certainly may be considered a valuable specific. In order to insure its full success, it should be exhibited in the lower dilutions, from one to three, at least in severe cases." --NEIDHARD.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Spasm of glottis , Searle, Raue's Path. and Therap., p. 338 ; Asthma , MSS. ; Cough , Blake, Hahn. Mo., vol. 10, p. 375 ; Pertussis , Moore, N. E. M. G., vol. 4, p. 446 ; (23 cases), MSS., Neidhard, N. A. J. H., vol. 3, p. 504 ; Cushing (9 cases out of 10), MSS. ; Knerr (numerous cases), MSS. ; Sleeplessness , Theobald, Org., vol. 1, p. 300.

Mind

Fancies so vivid they unfit for labor.
Talkative, as if drunk ; excited, with heat of head.
Angry about trifles or imaginary things.
Disinclination to work, with inclination to stretch.

Sensorium

Vertigo : sitting, stooping, turning in bed.
Numb and dull, with sensation as if head became enlarged, with ill humor and nausea.

Inner head

Pain above eyes ; violent pain in head, as if a fulness was pressing upwards.
Fulness of forehead and front part of head.
Fulness in head, more on vertex, < from studying.
Headache while riding in a carriage.
Heaviness in back part of head, as if fingers were pressing on it.
Slight pain like pulsation or undulation in front part of head, left side, > on stooping reading, < on writing steadily.
Strange feeling in right side of cerebellum.

Sight and eyes

Inability to read fine print.
Letters become blurred, he is unable to discern them, they run together.
Weakness of sight, with headache and pain in eyes.
Pain in eyes : when turning them in certain directions ; as from a foreign body ; as from overexertion.
Stitches in eyes as from needles.
Stinging and itching in eyes, evening and morning.
Inflammation of eyes and lids, especially right side.
Redness of conjunctivæ.
Heat and burning of eyes.
Pressing on lids, with burning of margins as if a stye would form.

Hearing and ears

Fetid discharge from ears.
Erysipelas of ear, with itching, heat, redness and blisters.
Neuralgic pain in and about ears ; deafness.

Smell and nose

Dry nose ; bleeding from nose ; swelling.
Fluent coryza, cough and soreness in chest.

Upper face

Bloated face.

Teeth and gums

Sudden jerks in roots of teeth ; strumming toothache.
Pains in hollow back teeth.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste in mouth : coppery ; as after eating onions.
Want of sensation in tongue.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Wants every dish very much salted.
No appetite in morning.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Nausea, with emptiness in stomach and sensation as if head was distended.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Pressure in stomach, with colic.

Hypochondria

Rheumatic pain in region of liver.
Pain under short ribs.

Abdomen and loins

Colic from cold, > near warm stove.

Stools and rectum

Stool infrequent but thin.

Urinary organs

Difficulty in urinating, all day ; stream interrupted.
Frequent micturition : with clear urine ; with rheumatic pain ; with chill.
Urine turbid in morning, after evening fever.

Male sexual organs

Dwindling of testicles from masturbation.
Heat of genitals at night.
Itching of scrotum.

Female sexual organs

Burning leucorrhœa.
Soreness of genitals and swelling of labia and uterus.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

When drinking or talking, liability to have something get into larynx.

Respiration

Asthma : as from inhaling vapor of sulphur ; in sleep ; of drunkards.
Inhalation difficult, exhalation almost impossible, or barking.
Suffocative feeling, with inability to exhale ; bloated face and convulsions. θ Spasm of glottis.
When drinking or talking, liability to get foreign substance into throat. θ Asthma thymicum.
Asthmatic paroxysm at night on lying down, also sometimes waking him in morning ; at 10 P. M. had to sit up in bed, got to sleep at 12 P. M., but was wakened by paroxysm exactly at daybreak ; had to get up and walk about, whereby a slight cough was excited, the more he coughed the worse the breathing became, but each cough brought up a little transparent phlegm, like white of egg, with sourish taste ; urine turbid on standing a few minutes, of fetid smell and depositing brick-dust sediment ; sensation during paroxysm as from inhaling fumes of sulphur, and a general oppression of front part of chest, especially behind upper part of sternum ; < from ice water, wine, horseback riding. θ Asthma.

Cough

Cough : after drinking, talking or loud reading ; with fluent coryza and soreness in chest ; spasmodic, hollow or deep, with rawness, hoarseness and pain through chest ; with suffocative feeling when inhaling ; cannot exhale ; vomits all food some hours after eating ; bloated face ; convulsions ; < at night and after lying down ; in morning it is loose, with some expectoration.
Whooping or any kind of cough which is very violent, coming on spasmodically, and seeming as though each spell would terminate life.
Spells day and night ; child must be raised, gets blue in face and cannot exhale ; convulsions ; fetid diarrhœa.
Eight or more paroxysms of cough every night ; rattling of phlegm during cough, with vomiting after eating.
After slight catarrh, whooping cough ; during day cough slight, but in night paroxysm every ten minutes, with frequent vomiting and fever.
Spasmodic cough of phthisical girls (where Dros. failed).

Inner chest and lungs

Pains in chest (last left short rib) when touching it ; when coughing and sneezing.
Strange feeling like that produced in throat when taking the preparation is felt in right lung and hypochondrium.

Neck and back

Stitches in spinal column during motion.
Pain in back and all limbs, with lameness.
Tension and pain in right side of neck.

Upper limbs

Sensation in right arm, over deltoid muscles, similar to that produced by substance on throat.
Rheumatic pains in arms, > on motion.
Restlessness in left arm, with sensibility.
Trembling of arm when leaning on it.
Painful twitching of left hand.
Feels impelled to stretch fingers and make them crack.

Lower limbs

Rush of blood to legs on getting awake at night.
Rheumatic pains from hips to feet ; arthritic pain in heel.
Legs restless as if becoming insensible ; knees feel bruised.
Peculiar spasmodic pain in left foot.
Stitches in feet.
Pain in big toe as if being pinched off.
Burning and pains in corns.

Limbs in general

Rheumatic wandering pains in limbs, with much pressure to urinate and shocks.
Stretching of limbs.

Rest. position. motion

Lying down : asthmatic paroxysm ; cough <.
Had to sit up in bed : asthmatic paroxysm.
Child must be raised : whooping cough.
Sitting : vertigo.
Stooping : vertigo.
Leaning on arm : trembling in it.
Motion : stitches in spinal column ; rheumatic pains in arms >.
Turning in bed : vertigo.
Stretching of limbs.
Had to get up and walk about : asthmatic paroxysm.
Disinclination to work, inclination to stretch.

Nerves

Very fine nervous vibrations, causing great uneasiness.
Convulsions.
Inclination to stretch one's self, with disinclination to do anything.
Restlessness.
Lameness, especially with the pains.

Sleep

Frequent yawning ; lachrymation.
Extremely sleepy in morning, during day, even in company.
Cannot sleep whole night.
Sleeplessness from "fidgets" in left side, both legs and arms.
Nightmare.
Awakens in night with congestion to legs.
Night walking, open eyes, angry gestures ; hair on head rises, cannot be made conscious.
Vivid dreams which he recollects.
Asthma during sleep ; not waking ; continues after he has waked up.

Time

Morning : stinging and itching in eyes ; no appetite ; urine turbid ; asthma waking him ; cough loose ; extremely sleepy ; increased warmth.
Day : occasional spells of whooping cough ; cough slight.
All day : difficulty in urinating ; extremely sleepy.
Evening : stinging and itching in eyes ; fever ; chilliness.
Night : heat of genitals ; asthmatic paroxysm ; cough < ; spells of whooping cough ; on getting awake rush of blood to legs ; cannot sleep.
At 10 P. M. : asthmatic paroxysm ; got to sleep at 12 P. M., but was wakened by paroxysm exactly at daybreak.

Temperature and weather

Warm stove : colic from cold >.
Feels less chilly in cold weather ; feels pleasant after ice cold washing.
Ice water : asthma <.

Fever

Cold feeling predominates ; evening chilliness, with desire to urinate ; colic as if diarrhœa would set in.
Increased warmth, especially in morning.

Attacks, periodicity

Every ten minutes : paroxysms of cough at night.
Every night : eight or more paroxysms.

Locality and direction

Right : strange feeling in side of cerebellum ; inflammation of eyes and lids < ; strange feeling in lung ; tension and pain in side of neck ; sensation in arm over deltoid muscles, similar to that produced by substance on throat.
Left : undulation in side of front part of head ; pains under short ribs ; restlessness in arm ; painful twitching of hand ; peculiar spasmodic pain in foot ; "fidgets" in side.

Sensations

Strumming through body ; anxiety.
Feels as if threads had been drawn through head and trunk.
Wandering pains with pressure to urinate.
Fine nervous vibrations in bones.
A kind of burning feeling as from raw onions, in stomach, nose, head, right arm, right lung and down œsophagus.
As if head became enlarged ; as if a fulness was pressing upwards in head ; as if fingers were pressing on back of head ; pain as from a foreign body in eyes ; as from overexertion ; stitches in eyes as from needles ; as if a stye would form ; as if head was distended ; as if inhaling vapor of sulphur ; legs as if becoming insensible ; as if big toe was being pinched off ; as if diarrhœa would set in.
Pain : above eyes ; in eyes ; in hollow back teeth ; under short ribs ; through chest ; in back and all limbs ; in r. side of neck ; in big toe in corns.
Violent pain : in head.
Stitches : in eyes as from needles ; in spinal column ; in feet.
Neuralgic pains : in and about ears.
Rheumatic pain : in region of liver ; when urinating ; in arms ; from hips to feet ; wandering, in limbs.
Arthritic pain : in heel.
Spasmodic pain : in left foot.
Slight pain-like pulsation in front part of head.
Painful twitching : of left hand.
Sudden jerks : in roots of teeth.
Stinging and itching : in eyes.
Soreness : in chest ; of genitals.
Burning : of eyes ; of margins of eyes ; in corns.
Heat : of eyes ; of ears ; of genitals.
Pressure : in stomach.
Fulness : of forehead and front part of head ; in head.
Heaviness : in back part of head.
Tension : in right side of neck.
Pressing : on lids.
Lameness : in back and limbs.
Suffocative feeling : in larynx.
Strange feeling : in right side of cerebellum ; in lungs.
Restlessness : in left arm.
Fidgets : in left side, both legs and arms.
Trembling : of arm.
Itching : of ears ; of scrotum.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : on last short ribs, pain.
Riding in a carriage : headache.
Horseback riding : asthma <.

Skin

Pimples on thighs, forehead, face, neck and nates.

Stage of life, constitution

Baby, æt. 20 mos. ; pertussis.
Boy, æt. 1 ; pertussis.
Child, æt. 2 ; pertussis.
Boy, æt. 3 ; pertussis.
Boy, æt. 4 ; pertussis.
Girl, æt. 6 ; pertussis.
Boy, æt. 6 ; pertussis.
Boy, æt. 6 ; pertussis.
Two children, æt. 8 1/2 and 5 1/2 ; pertussis.
Girl, æt. 9 ; pertussis.
Man, æt. 26 ; bilious temperament, while in army two years previously had suffocative catarrh ; asthma.

Relations

Compare : in asthma, Drosera, Rumex and Sticta ; in pertussis, Coral. rubr . and Drosera ; in vertigo, Carbo veg . ; in loquacity, Amanita (Agaric.) and Laches . ; in effects on nervous system generally, Castor . and Moschus ; in chorea, with fidgety feet and legs, Act. rac., Am. carb., Arsen., Asaf., Aurum, Sticta and Tarent .