Osmium osm.

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

Respiratory tract. Trachea.

Worse

Coughing. Talking.

General

Foul secretions. Pains go up and down. Crawlings.

Particulars

Greenish, rainbow colors about light. Snuffling. Fluent coryza, with a sense of stoppage. Stomach feels full of broken stones or lumps. Spasmodic cough; with torn loose feeling and tenacious sputum. Sensitive air passages. Foul axillary sweat.

Related

Related: Ars. Iod. Pho.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

The Element

General

Irritation and catarrh of respiratory organs. Eczema. Albuminuria. Pain in trachea. Increases and gives odor to local perspiration. Causes adhesion of the nail fold.

Head

Feels as if a band around head. Falling off of hair (Kali carb; Fluor ac).

Nose

Coryza, with full feeling in nose. Nose and larynx sensitive to air. Small lumps of phlegm from posterior nares.

Eyes

Glaucoma; with iridescent vision. Violent supra and infra-orbital neuralgia; violent pains and lachrymation. Green colors surround candle-light. Conjunctivitis. Increase in intra-ocular tension, dim sight, photophobia.

Respiratory

Acute laryngitis; cough and expectoration of tough, stringy mucus. Convulsive cough; feels as though membrane were torn from larynx. Noisy, dry, hard, cough, in violent short bursts, coming from low down, shaking the whole body. Talking causes pain in larynx. Hoarse; pain in larynx; sore sternum. Twitching of fingers, with spasmodic cough.

Skin

Eczema, with pruritus. Irritated skin. Itching pimples. Bromidrosis, sweat in axilla smelling of garlic, worse evening and night. Fold remains attached to growing nail.

Relationship

Compare: Argent; Iridium; Selen; Mangan.

Dose

Sixth potency.

Text Book of Materia Medica

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Head

Violent headache above and under the eyes, one-sided, extending to the ears ; worst below the eyebrows ; the eye waters. Falling off of the hair.

Eyes

Weakness of sight. The flame of the candle looks larger and less distinct. Burning of the eyes and lachrymation.

Ears

Tingling and pain in the (right) ear.

Nose

Sneezing and fluent coryza, with tickling in the larynx, with difficult respiration. Discharge from the posterior nares of loose mucus.

Stomach and Abdomen

Chronic vomiting, with pressure in the stomach.

Urinary Organs

Diminution or suppression of the urinary secretions.

Sexual Organs

Men. Violent pain on the point of the penis and prepuce. Erections every night, after midnight or towards morning. Discharge of semen larger and continues longer than usual.

Respiratory Organs

Tickling in the larynx. Mucous secretion increased ; mucus hangs in the larynx like a string, causing hawking and coughing with straining to vomit ; easily. Dryness of the throat when coughing. Spasmodic coughs in attacks (with twitching of the fingers, dryness of the throat and crying). Cough with sneezing. Cannot expectorate what has been coughed up ; has to swallow it again. Chronic dyspnœa. (Heaves in horses). Sensation of soreness of, the sternum ; it is painful to the touch.

Extremities

Upper. Perspiration in the axillæ smelling-like garlic. Lower. Rash on the thighs and on the ankle. The lower legs and feet feel too full, with restlessness in the legs till he lies down.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

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General

OSMIUM. The Element. Os. (A. W. 190.3). Trituration of the precipitated metal.

OSMICUM ACIDUM. Osmium tetroxide. OsO 4 . Dilutions with absolutely pure water.

Clinical

Asthma. Bronchitis. Cold, liability to. Coryza. Cough, spasmodic . Eczema. Erections. Glaucoma. Headache. Hernia. Herpes iris. Larynx, pain in. Penis, sores on. Pollutions. Post-nasal bleeding. Post-nasal growths. Spermatic cords, pains in. Sternum, pain in. Syphilis. Syphilitic eruptions. Testicles, pains in. Tongue, sore. Trachea, pain in .

Characteristics

Osmium is a metal of the Platinum group, in association with which it is always found. It is the heaviest of them all and the most refractory, having never been fused. It derives its name (όσμή odour) from the pungent odour of the fumes of Osmic acid , which are evolved in the process of separating Platinum from its ore, and the effects of which have supplied a number of valuable symptoms in cases recorded by J. G. Blackley ( C. D. P .). In the arts it is used in the alloy with iridium ( Iridosmium or Osmiridium ) for making the tips of gold pens. Triturations of the pure metal have been proved. The symptoms of the metal and of the acid are taken together. The odour of Osm . closely resembles that of Chlorine , as also do its irritating effect on the respiratory mucous membrane. The odour imparted to the secretions is various it makes the urine smell like violets; the eructations like radishes the axillary sweat like garlic. The respiratory tract is irritated from beginning to end, and not only irritated but pained. The nostrils and larynx are sensitive to cold air. There is pain in larynx, trachea, and in and under sternum on coughing. Even talking causes pain in larynx. Cough convulsive in paroxysms; hollow sounding as if one coughed into an empty tube; caused by irritation in larynx or low down in chest. As with so many remedies causing cough and asthmatic symptoms, Osm . is no less irritating to the skin, producing all degrees of irritating eruptions, eczematous and herpetic. In one of Blackley's cases a child born during the time that his father was under the influence of Osm. ac . developed eczema, though none of the previously born children were eczematous. In one of the provers the eruption proceeded from above downwards, the eruption disappearing from the upper part of the body and becoming worse on the lower. The downward direction of the symptoms also appeared in the male generative sphere, which was profoundly influenced: "Weakness in both groins towards cords." C. M. Boger ( Med. Couns ., xvi. 264) cured a case in which there was pain in both directions: "Stitching pain upward in left spermatic cord. Creeping sensation downwards in left spermatic cord. Weakness in calves; they give out while walking." [Shootings in the sternum are "up and down."] In another case (man, 44, syphilitic) he cured: "Dull, steady pain in hypogastrium, sore to pressure. Steady aching in glans penis." In the provings the erections were severe almost to priapism, and the ejaculations were longer-lasting and more copious than normal. The kidneys were affected in one of Blackley's cases, incipient nephritis being set up. The headaches of the provings were of a violent description, many of them affecting the base of the brain. A woman, 62, to whom I once gave Osm . 2x for a spasmodic cough with pain in the head had a severe aggravation, the headache taking this form: "Sharp pain in centre of forehead going through to back; > by hard pressure on forehead." She discontinued Osm . and in two or three days that pain went away, leaving only an ordinary headache. The cough was not relieved. G. S. Norton ( H. W ., xviii. 263) suggests that Osm . may be a remedy in many cases of glaucoma. Among the peculiar sensations are: As of a band round head. As if he had swallowed broken stones. Cough as if caused by resonance of contiguous parts. As if insects crawling on back and shoulders. Legs and feet as if too full. The symptoms are < by touch (tongue, sternum). < Riding (hoarseness). < Coughing; talking (pain in larynx). Most symptoms are < evening (cough, skin, restlessness). Cough < till midnight. Open air < (coryza, cough). (One prover was less liable to taking cold in November than usual.) Open air > (smarting in eyes).

Relations

Antidoted by: Sulphuretted hydrogen, Phos. ac.; Sil. (swollen gums); Hep. and Spo. (pain in larynx); Bell. and Merc. (laryngeal catarrh). Compare: Iridium, Selen., Tellur., Thall., Plat., Pallad. In eyes and lungs, Chlor., Bro. Skin of nails, Flu. ac. Itch, Sul. Coryza, cough with pain in larynx, Cep. (but Cep. has > in open air). Eruptions, Ars., Rhus.

Mind

Morose, irritable, impatient. ─ Weeping mood, screaming with cough. ─ Weak, gives up. ─ Consciousness of mental weakness; misplaces words. ─ Thoughts of accidents having happened to others, these thoughts grow upon him as if he were to do the same injuries to others. ─ Disinclination for work.

Head

Dull, heavy headache. ─ Violent headache above and under the eyes, one-sided, extending to the ears; < below the eyebrows; the eye waters. ─ Headache in r. upper forehead, a tearing to and fro deep in; at same time similar pains in bones of limbs, deep in, evening. ─ Sharp bewildering pain centre of forehead going through to back, > by pressing on it. ─ Aching: in base of brain and jaws at night; extending from base of brain into jaws; < temples, with pain in larynx and hoarseness; nearly preventing sleep; like a band around head above ears. ─ Pain in vertex and occiput all the afternoon, < throwing head backward, with fulness. ─ Falling off of the hair.

Eyes

Sharp pain in orbit (as if in bones); lids spasmodically closed. ─ Burning pain in eyes, with profuse lachrymation. ─ Weakness of sight ( < r. eye). ─ Dimness of sight; letters run together as from a fog. ─ Smarting, > open air, but leaving eyes weak, so as to prevent reading, all objects surrounded by a coloured halo, eyes red and swollen. ─ Flame of candle surrounded by a bluish-green or yellow circle; or a rainbow ring; the flame looks larger or less distinct; at a distance it seems enveloped by dust or smoke. ─ Veins at fundus large and tortuous. ─ (Glaucoma.)

Ears

Ringing in r. ear. ─ Tingling and pain in r. ear. ─ Earache evenings; first r. then l. ear. ─ Severe pains in l. petrosum. ─ [Perforations with irritation of meatus (both sides), sneezing, catarrh, sore throat, pasty posterior nares. ─ Itching in the ears; profuse nasal catarrh. ─ Meatus and membrane look red, and latter is perforated; thin but stringy discharge from nose. ─ Deafness; ears pain when nose is blown; mouth open; sleep noisy. ─ Girl of 14 with post-nasal growths improved rapidly under Osmic acid, 3x, but was seized with exhaustion; then under Hydroc. ac .; got quite well. ─ (Cures by Cooper)].

Nose

Sensation as if blood rushed into nose from head. ─ Coryza with sneezing. ─ Sneezing and fluent coryza, with tickling in larynx, with difficult respiration. ─ Discharge from posterior nares of loose mucus. ─ Burning irritation in nose. ─ Nostrils sensitive to cold air. ─ Sense of smell diminished. ─ (Post-nasal growths: adenoids. ─ R. T. C.)

Teeth

Jerking pain in a r. upper hollow molar, often preventing, speech, afterwards the pain returned but was drawing, > sucking it with tongue. ─ Sudden swelling of gum above root of an upper l. incisor after eating pears, with pain and numbness; > by Silic .

Mouth

Aching in jaws; pain in muscles of mastication. ─ Tongue: coated; and bad taste to coffee; fissured and one spot denuded; edges rough (and covered with pimples); red stripe in middle (paining as if sore). ─ Tongue sensitive to touch when eating and drinking. ─ Mouth sticky and pasty. ─ Copious salivation. ─ Taste of blood; metallic; unusual to tobacco, it causes scraping in throat, cigars cannot be smoked because they provoke cough and < the rawness in larynx; taste blunted.

Stomach

Aversion to cocoa. ─ Eructations; nausea; vomiting. ─ Qualmishness and extreme discomfort, with dull pain and heaviness in pit of stomach. ─ Aversion to coffee and tobacco, disgust at their odour. ─ Eructations of odour of radishes. ─ Nausea: in morning, with discomfort in pit of stomach; on coughing; after eating, with pain and heaviness in pit of stomach when riding in open air; > empty eructations. ─ Vomiting of watery mucus of the odour and taste of the acid, with blackish-grey flakes of mucus. ─ Paroxysmal vomiting of water, afterwards of yellowish and tenacious substances. ─ Distension of stomach and abdomen in evening, with difficult passage of flatus. ─ Constriction in forenoon; in epigastrium before dinner (which I take at 12.30), with weight and often a feeling in stomach as if I had swallowed stones. ─ Chronic vomiting, with pressure in stomach.

Abdomen

Abdomen distended and sensitive; much rumbling. ─ Pain in groins, that on coughing extended into testicles. ─ Pressure on inguinal rings. ─ Weakness in groins towards spermatic cords.

Stool and Anus

Diarrhœa: nine or ten times daily, preceded or followed by colic, nearly always with black blood (no hæmorrhoids); (diarrhœa after coffee). ─ Stools mushy, frequent. ─ Bilious stools, partly fluid, delayed, hasty, with burning at anus. ─ Constipated stools; small, delayed. ─ Stool: hard, then soft, orange-coloured; dry, full of air, delayed, next day scanty and small; only a small lump like a marble, difficult. ─ Tendency to piles. ─ Urging but passage of only flatus; urging, then stool, first part hard, then soft, with burning in anus preventing sleep, urging with desire for stool, but evacuation of only a little mucus. ─ Constipation. ─ Burning in anus during and after stool.

Urinary Organs

Diminution or suppression of the urinary secretions. ─ Urine albuminous; strong-scented (high-coloured, smelling of violets, apparently full of bile); dark brown (porter-coloured) and scanty; deposits bright-red sediment. ─ Bright's disease.

Male Sexual Organs

Violent pain on the point of penis and prepuce. ─ Glans red on l. side, during coition a long-lasting emission of semen. ─ Throbbing, stinging, pinching in l. side of glans. ─ Hard erections; often after midnight, always on waking in morning, later they last longer, even after rising, desire moderate. ─ Erections every morning, earlier and harder. ─ Pain: in r. testicle; in testicles, preventing sleep all night; in spermatic cords, < l.; in spermatic cords extending into testicles, with inflammatory swelling of r. inguinal glands. ─ Appetite suppressed, the conjugal act done by volition, and the usual thrill in ejaculation absent.

Respiratory Organs

Larynx, tickling; sore pain; burning. ─ Mucous secretion increased; profuse secretion of mucus in air passages; it hangs in larynx like a string, causing hawking and coughing with straining to vomit; has to swallow it; when sneezing the mucus becomes loose easily. ─ Dryness of the throat when coughing. ─ Hoarseness and pain in larynx; with cough and coryza. ─ Hoarseness, < from singing, and < on entering the house. ─ Burning irritation in trachea. ─ Spasmodic coughs in attacks (with twitching of fingers, dryness of throat and crying). ─ Cough sounds as if one coughed into an empty tube; or as if caused by resonance of contiguous parts. ─ Cough with sneezing. ─ Cough: only in morning; from scraping in larynx; with pain in larynx; with constriction of trachea; convulsive; in short bursts on rising, without expectoration, in short bursts (after coryza), returned during day, disturbing sleep till midnight, from tickling in larynx, after sneezing a lump is loosened, which he must swallow; dry, spasmodic; dry, rattling, difficult to loosen; short, dry, paroxysmal, as if mucous membrane would be torn off, with and followed by raw, sore pain in larynx and trachea, extending to middle of sternum. ─ Hacking cough; > deep inspiration; < motion in open air, with irritation in larynx. ─ Cough, with secretion of colourless mucus. ─ Bronchitis. ─ Chronic dyspnœa. ─ (Heaves in horses.)

Chest

Moist râles on breathing and in larynx. ─ Wandering pneumonia. ─ Sticking near l. lower rib. ─ Pain beneath sternum on coughing, extending to sides of chest, with burning soreness, after coughing long lumps of yellow, tenacious mucus were loosened. ─ Sternum sore, painful to touch, independent of cough. ─ Shooting up and down in sternum. ─ Oppression; > deep inspiration, with difficult respiration as if lungs were collapsed and could not get air enough. ─ Tightness, dread of breathing, sore pain when air enters lungs. ─ Dryness in chest.

Heart

Anxious palpitation. ─ Pulse rapid.

Back

Pressive pain in back and loins. ─ Pain: in sacral region. ─ Peculiar pain extending from scapula to sacral region, < motion and cough.

Limbs

Heaviness and weariness of limbs, < knees.

Upper Limbs

Perspiration in axillæ smelling like garlic. ─ Pulsating stinging on inner side of r. shoulder-joint. ─ Pinching above l. elbow, inwardly and on inner posterior side. ─ Pain: in middle of l. humerus, then in l. fingers; in bone of l. elbow. ─ Paralytic pain deep in radius. ─ Pinching in bones of r. forearm. ─ Pain in bones of l. wrist in morning after stool. ─ Pain in r. index, esp. in phalanx, stinging and twitching towards tip, in forenoon. ─ Stabbing: in tips of l. fingers and thumb; in attacks, in finger tips, < l. ─ Burning pain in l. ring finger. ─ Fold remains attached to growing nail, < r. side and mostly middle finger.

Lower Limbs

Rash on thighs and on ankle. ─ Fulness and restlessness in legs and feet, quite unbearable; has to lie down at 9 p.m. ─ Legs almost insensible. ─ Sudden pain in hip-joint as if it would be dislocated, preventing walking. ─ Ulcerative pain in l. leg and gluteal muscles. ─ Pain in r. ankle. ─ Flying cutting in bones and joints of r. foot. ─ Pinching in bones of l. heel, then r.

Generalities

Great weakness and prostration (all day, with muddled head and aching limbs and body; on rising; on rising after a restless night). ─ Cutting and pinching pains in limbs. ─ Tearing to and fro deep in r. upper side of forehead and in bones of limbs in evening. ─ General sick feeling. ─ Restless.

Skin

Red spots on dorsum of hands. ─ Copious exanthema on forearms, hands, and cheecks. ─ Red-brown papules, with desquamation, on forearm and hand. ─ Small, itching, pointed vesicles, surrounded by red areola on back of l. hand, between thumb and index (where six years before scabies had broken out), and on ulnar margin of l. hand, from metacarpal joint to phalanges of little finger, and on outer surface of wrist, on r. hand itching, but no vesicles. ─ Itching as from crawling of insects. ─ Face red, tender, covered with pimples with watery heads, then pimples on knuckles, gradually spreading over hands and arms, later hands and forearms covered with red, slightly raised circular or elliptical patches, covered with concentric scabs, resembling later stages of herpes iris, most of patches deeply fissured, patches irritable, < morning on rising and at night on undressing, papules on neck. ─ Redness of hands and arms, with swelling and itching pimples, gradually becoming vesicular; on face, neck, and forearms patches of vesicles on an elevated base, the latter hard, brawny, and pitting on pressure, towards the edges the patches consist of one or two vesicles on the summit of a large pimple, contents of vesicles watery, occasional cracking of affected skin and constant oozing, the itching makes him irritable. ─ Eruption on forearms, head, and side of face. ─ Eczematous rash on face and upper limbs. ─ Prickly heat disappears on upper half of body and increases on lower, first on thigh, then on leg, then on ankle. ─ Burning stitches in many places, < r. upper lid and at inner border of nail of l. fourth finger. ─ Itching: on legs and ankles, in spots near l. hip, 3 to 4 a.m., when erections return; above crest of l. ilium, with redness and pointed spots as if tetter would appear; as from crawling insects, on shoulders and back in evening on going to bed, it scarcely permits sleep.

Sleep

Sleepiness; overpowering. ─ Sleepless. ─ Restless sleep; with painful dreams. ─ Sleep heavy, interrupted by nightmare. ─ Dreams: of fire, confused, but not frightful; unremembered of activity and of serious and important events.

Fever

Shivering, < back. ─ Fever, with difficult respiration; fever, with hot and dry skin. ─ Sweat in axilla, smelling of garlic, < evening and night.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

General

The Element. Osmium tetroxide (Osmic Acid) OSO 4 .
The most refractory of all metals ; discovered by Vaucquelin, Tennant and Thenard, in 1804.
Proved in 1850, by Hering, Neidhard and Raue.
Triturations of the precipitated metal were used in the provings.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Spasmodic cough , Liedbeck, Analyt. Therap. vol. 1, p. 197 ; Cough , Burnett, A. H. Z, vol. 3, from Hom. World, 1885.

Mind

Weeping mood, screaming, with the cough.
Anxious, fidgety.
Very impatient, with itching.
Thoughts of accidents having happened ; later of doing injury to others.
Misplaces words.
Weak, gives up.

Sensorium

Dulness, with heat in head.

Inner head

Tearing in upper right side of forehead.
Aching like a band around head above ears ; in temples, with hoarseness.

Outer head

Hair falls off.

Sight and eyes

Weakness of sight, could not tell night from day. θ Glaucoma.
Flame from candle larger, confused ; large rainbow ring around it.
Feels a short motion back and forward in ball, with closed eyes.
Eyes water, burn and itch.
Pains around left eye on bone.

Hearing and ears

Ringing in right ear.
Severe pains in left petrosum.

Smell and nose

After sneezing, phlegm in larynx looser.
Sneezing and running at nose with tickling in larynx, difficult breathing.
Discharge of mucus from choanæ.
Nasal catarrh ; coryza ; sneezing as from snuff ; nose and larynx sensitive to air ; small lumps of phlegm easily loosened from posterior nares and larynx.

Lower face

Aching from base of brain into jaws.
Cooling jerks in left upper jaw and front teeth.
Chewing causes aching in muscles.

Teeth and gums

Gums swell above left eyetooth.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste : corroding ; burning ; cloverlike ; sweetish.
Red sore stripe in middle of tongue, edges rough and pimply ; most sensitive to slight touch when eating or drinking.
Tongue coated.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Aversion to cocoa.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Chronic vomiting, with pressure in stomach.

Scrobiculum and stomach

In stomach : uneasiness ; pressure ; contracting after food, more by stimulants ; weakness at 6 P. M., amounting to nausea ; all evening distension ; feeling as if he had swallowed a lot of broken stones.

Abdomen and loins

Bowels distended in afternoon and evening.
Pressure on both inguinal rings.

Stools and rectum

Stool : dry, is full of wind ; small ; hastily passing, with burning in anus ; thin, bilious ; urging, but only wind passes.

Urinary organs

Urine : dark brown, scanty ; suppressed ; in evening strongly scented like violets.

Male sexual organs

Erections earlier in morning and firmer ; ejaculations lasting longer.
Violent pain on tip of glans and in foreskin.
Pain in right testicle and left spermatic cord ; weakness in both groins towards cord.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Voice hoarse, weak, soundless.
Hoarseness : after singing ; < riding or walking in open air.
Tickling in larynx.
Irresistible tickling causes short bursts of cough.
Severe pain in larynx, < coughing or talking ; hoarseness.
Larynx dry with cough.
Mucus : increased ; hangs in larynx like a string, hawks, coughs, strains to vomit ; sneezing loosens it.

Respiration

Chronic dyspnœa.
Heaves in horses.

Cough

Cough : short, irresistible hacking, caused by an irritation low down in chest ; with tearing pain in sternum ; on rising, violent, without phlegm, returning during day ; severe, disturbing sleep until midnight ; spasmodic, fingers twitch ; sounds as if one coughed into an empty tube, or as if caused by resonance of contiguous parts ; dry, hard, shaking whole body.
After sneezing, a little round lump loosens but has to be swallowed.
Paroxysms of convulsive cough.

Inner chest and lungs

Soreness in whole sternum, sensitive to touch ; pain independent of cough.
In sternum, shooting upward and downward.
A dull stitch near left lower rib.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Anxious palpitation of heart.

Outer chest

Sore sternum, painful to touch, independent of cough.
Tearing pain in sternum with cough.
Shooting up and down in sternum.

Neck and back

Itching on back and shoulders as from crawling insects, < evenings going to bed.

Upper limbs

Sweat in axillæ smelling like garlic, < evening and at night.
Pulsating dull stings, inside of right shoulder joint.
Very severe pinching pain, often repeated, in left upper arm above elbow.
Sensitive pain in middle of left humerus, then in fingers.
In left elbow bone pains ; in right forearm pinching ; drawing inside of right forearm, burning pressure outside, red spots on dorsum.
Aching in metacarpo-phalangeal joint of left thumb, pain in first phalanx of right forefinger ; burning in left ring finger ; like fire on inner border of nail.
Stabbing on tips of fingers.
Twitching of fingers, with spasmodic cough.

Lower limbs

Violent itching above crest of left ilium towards abdomen, the place red with many small pointed spots.
Sore pain in left gluteus and leg.
Itching and rash on thighs and on ankle.
Legs and feet feel too full.
Restless in legs, quite unbearable, has to lie down at 9 P. M.
Pains in right ankle, pinching, flying, cutting in bones and joints of right foot.
Pain in bones of heels.
Drawing, aching in tendon each side of top of patella ; occasional shoots below external malleolus and on instep.
Scarlet rash on thighs and ankles.

Limbs in general

Pain deep in bones, same as in head.
Aching of limbs and body all day.

Rest. position. motion

Chewing : causes aching in muscles.

Nerves

Weak, easily tired for a long time.

Sleep

Itching and cough disturb sleep.
Restless nights, dreams of painful events ; arose jaded.
Less sensitive to disturbance of sleep, arose very tired ; muddled head, aching limbs and body.

Time

Morning : erections earlier ; violent cough.
Day : aching in limbs and body.
Afternoon : bowels distended.
At 6 P. M. : weakness in stomach.
At 9 P. M. : has to lie down from restlessness in legs.
Evening : headache, eyes and ears worse ; cough ; sweat in axilla ; restless in legs ; weakness ; itching ; distension in stomach ; urine scented like violets ; itching on back < ; sweat in axillæ ; smelling of garlic <.
Till midnight : cough disturbs sleep.
Night : sweat in axillæ smelling like garlic < ; restless.

Temperature and weather

Less subject to taking cold, in November.
Air : larynx sensitive ; hoarseness < walking.

Attacks, periodicity

Cough : in attacks.

Locality and direction

Right : tearing in upper side of forehead ; ringing in ear ; pain in testicle ; pulsating, dull stings inside of shoulder joint ; pinching drawing in forearm ; pain in first phalanx of forefinger ; pain in ankle ; cutting, pinching, flying in bones and joints of foot.
Left : severe pain in petrosum ; cooling jerks in upper jaw and front teeth ; gums swell above eye tooth ; pain in spermatic cord ; dull stitch near lower rib ; pinching oft repeated in upper arm ; sensitive pain in middle of humerus ; bone pains in elbow ; aching in joint of thumb ; burning in ring finger.
Upward and downward : shooting in sternum.

Sensations

As of a band around head ; sneezing, as from snuff ; as after having swallowed broken stones ; cough, as if caused by resonance of contiguous parts ; as of crawling insects on back and shoulders ; legs and feet as if too full.
Pains : around left eye ; in right testicle and left spermatic cord ; in bones of left elbow ; in first phalanx of right forefinger ; in bones of heels ; in right ankle ; deep in bones.
Violent pain : on tip of glans and in foreskin.
Severe pains : in left petrosum ; in larynx.
Very severe pinching pain : in left upper arm above elbow.
Pinching, flying, cutting in bones and joints of right foot.
Stabbing : in tips of fingers.
Tearing : in upper right side of forehead ; in temples ; in sternum.
Pinching drawing : in right forearm.
Shooting : in sternum ; below external malleolus and on instep.
A dull stitch : near left lower rib.
Pulsating dull stings : inside of right shoulder joint.
Sore pain : in left leg.
Sensitive pain : in middle of left humerus, then in fingers.
Aching : around head above ears ; from base of brain into jaws ; in muscles of jaw ; in metacarpo-phalangeal joint of left thumb ; in tendon each side of top of patella ; of limbs and body.
Burning pressure : outside of forearm.
Burning : in eyes ; in anus ; in left ring finger ; on inner border of nail.
Heat : in head.
Soreness : in whole sternum.
Pressure : in stomach ; on both inguinal rings.
Irritation : low down in chest.
Restlessness : in legs.
Uneasiness : in stomach.
Weakness : in stomach ; in both groins towards cord.
Tickling : in larynx.
Dryness : in larynx.
Dulness : in head.
Sensation of short motion back and forward : in eyeballs.
Cooling jerks : in left upper jaw and front teeth.
Itching : in eyes ; on back and shoulders ; violent, above crest of ilium towards abdomen on small spots.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : tongue sensitive to slightest ; sternum sensitive.
Riding : hoarseness <.

Skin

Itching on small spots.
Burning stitches on many places.
Prickly heat going to lower limbs.
Syphilitic tetters.

Stage of life, constitution

Girl, æt. 1 1/2 years ; spasmodic cough.

Relations

Antidoted by : sulphuretted hydrogen, Phos. ac ; Silic . (swollen gums) ; Hepar and Spongia (pain in larynx) ; Bellad . and Mercur . (laryngeal catarrh).
Compare : Argentum, Arsen., Iridium, Manganum, Selen., Sulphur, Tellurium, Bromine (eyes and lungs).