Platinum Metallicum plat.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

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Region

FEMALE ORGANS. Nerves: Vagus. Sensory. Trifacial.

Worse

EMOTIONS: Sexual. Coition. Chagrin. TOUCH. Nerve exhaustion.

Better

Walking in cool air. Sunshine.

General

A remedy of pains. For prim old maids. Oversensitive mind and nerves. Violent cramping, squeezing, thrusting or numbing pains, and then spasms. Neuralgia. Many and various ovarian or uterine reflexes. Irregular spasm, congestion of blood or coldness of single parts, eyes, ears, etc. Tremor. Alternate mental and physical or sexual symptoms. Numbness; scalp, face, coccyx, calves, etc. Bandaged feeling. Sticky; tears, stool, menses, etc.

Particulars

Laughs at wrong time. Unkind, abrupt and quarrelsome. Disordered sense of proportion; objects seem smaller, strange, frightful, etc. Hysteria. Horrors; fears death. CONTEMPT. Hauteur. Proud and erotic (Aur.). Alone, deserted feeling. Mentally < in twilight. Bad humor, yet weeps. Gradually increasing, then slowly lessening headache. Clavus. Tense scalp. Cramp at root of nose. Grimaces. Boring in jaws. Congestion to abdomen. Colic. Hard, black, scant or soft, difficult stools; of tourists; of pregnancy. Crawling itching anus in evening. Painfully sensitive genitals, with itching, tickling or crawling. Dark, thick, profuse menses, with dragging. Heat in ovaries. Ovarian irritation. Vaginismus. Dysmenorrhœa, with shrieks and jerks. Eroticism. Onanism. Spasmodic yawning. Bruised backache, < pressure or bending backward. Knees drawn up and spread apart. Cramp in calves. In sleep wants to uncover entirely.

Related

Related: Cup. Ign. Plb. Stan.

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

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Keynote

Adapted to women, dark hair, rigid fibre; thin, of a sanguine temperament; who suffer from too early and too profuse menses. Sexual organs exceedingly sensitive; cannot bear the napkin to touch her; will go into spasms from an examination; vulva painfully sensitve during coitus: will faint during or cannot endure, coitus (compare, Mur., Orig.). The pains increase gradually and as gradually decrease (Stan.); are attended with numbness of parts (Cham.). For hysterical patients; alternately gay and sad, who cry easily (Croc., Ign., Puls.); pale, easily fatigued. Arrogant, proud, contemptuous and haughty; pitiful "looking down" upon people usully venerated; a kind of "casting them off" unwillingly. Mental delusions, as if everything about her were small; all persons physically and mentally inferior, but she physically large and superior. Sensation of growing larger in every direction. Trifling things produce profound vexation (Ign., Staph.); remains a long time in the sulks. Satiety of life, with taciturnity and fear of death (Acon., Ars.). Mental symptoms appear as physical symptoms disappear and vice versa. Headache: numb, heavy pain in brain or on vertex; from anger or chagrin; hysterical, from uterine disease; pains gradually increase and decrease. Nymphomania: < in lying-in women; excessive sexual development, especially in virgins (Kali p.); vaginismus, spasms and constriction. Menses too early, too profuse, too long-lasting; dark-clotted, offensive, with bearing down spasms; pains in uterus with twitching; genitals sensitive. Excessive itching in uterus; pruritis vulvae. Constipation; while traveling (at sea, Bry.); after lead poisoning; from inertia of bowels; frequent, unsuccessful urging; stools adhere to rectum and anus like soft clay (Alum.); of emigrants; of pregnancy; obstinate cases after Nux has failed. Metrorrhagia: flow in black clots and fluid; thick black, tarry or in grumous mass (Croc.).

Relations

Compare: Aur., Croc., Ign., Kali p., Puls., Sep., Stan.; Val. the vegetable analogue.

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Mental

Mental symptoms in general; amativeness; state of madness; hysteria. The patient is very haughty, looks with disdain upon everyone and everything. Sensation of dread and horror.

Sexual

Female: Nymphomania, which may occur even during the lying-in period. Menstruation, when the discharge is very abundant, thick and black like tar, and is very exhausting; spasms and screaming at every menstrual period; menses too early and profuse; blood dark and coagulated; affections of the uterus.

Stool

The stool is discharged with difficulty, seeming to stick to the anus and rectum like putty.

Sensations

Pains like labor pains; cramping pains in inner parts, muscles, joints, etc., gnawing in outer parts; sensation as of a hoop around parts; violent shocks as if from pain; sensation of prickling in the outer parts. Itching, with gnawing with soreness; tingling. Sensation of coldness in outer parts.

Generalities

Dark-haired females. General affections of the right eye; right ear; toes. Epistaxis with dark coagulated blood; changing color of the face frequently; rising in the throat. Tape-worm, other symptoms agreeing; chlorosis; contortions of the limbs; contraction of inner parts. Catalepsy; epilepsy with rigor; tonic spasms. Very great paleness of the skin; spasmodic yawning.

Worse

In the evening; from anger; more in females than males; when lying down; after lying down and rising again; when sitting; after rising.

Remedies following

Bellad., Ignat., Lycop., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia, Veratr.

Antidote

Pulsat.

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Arrogant, proud and haughty in her manner, overestimating herself, and looking down with pitiful contempt upon those around her. Objects appear smaller than they really are. Nymphomania; genitals painfully sensitive with voluptuous tingling extending into the abdomen. Hysteria, and other spasmodic affections in hysterical women.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

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Common name

The Metal (PLATINA)

General

Is pre-eminently a woman's remedy. Strong tendency to paralysis, anæsthesia, localized numbness and coldness are shown. Hysterical spasms; pains increase and decrease gradually (Stannum). Tremulousness.

Mind

Irresistible impulse to kill. Self-exaltation; contempt for others. Arrogant, proud. Weary of everything. Everything seems changed. Mental trouble pressed menses. Physical symptoms disappear as mental symptoms develop.

Head

Tense, pressing pain, confined to a small spot. Cramplike, squeezing pain. Constriction about forehead and right temples. Numbness, with headache.

Eyes

Objects look smaller than they are. Twitching of lids (Agar). Eyes feel cold. Cramp-like pain in orbits.

Ears

Feels numb. Cramp-like twinges. Roaring and rumbling.

Face

Prosopalgia, with numb feeling in malar bones, as if the parts were between screws. Pain at root of nose, as if squeezed in a vise. Coldness, creeping, and numbness, in whole right side of face. Pains increase and decrease gradually (Stann).

Stomach

Fermentation, much flatulence; constriction; ravenous hunger; persistent nausea, with anxiety and weakness.

Abdomen

Painter's colic. Pain in umbilical region; extending through to back. Pressing and bearing down in abdomen; extending into pelvis.

Stool

Retarded; feces scanty; evacuated with difficulty. Adheres to rectum, like soft clay. Sticky stool. Constipation of travelers, who are constantly changing food and water. Stool as if burnt.

Female

Parts hypersensitive. Tingling internally and externally (Kali brom; Orig). Ovaries sensitive and burn. Menses too early, too profuse, dark-clotted, with spasms and painful bearing-down, chilliness, and sensitiveness of parts. Vaginismus. Nymphomania. Excessive sexual development; vaginismus. Pruritus vulvæ. Ovaritis with sterility. Abnormal sexual appetite and melancholia.

Extremities

Tightness of thighs, as if too tightly wrapped. Numb and weary sensation. Feel paralyzed.

Sleep

Sleeps with legs far apart (Chamom).

Modalities

Worse, sitting and standing; evening. Better, walking.

Relationship

Compare: Rhodium; Stann; Valer; Sep. Compare, also: Platinum muriaticum (this remedy has achieved beneficial results after Iodide of Potash failed to cure in syphilitic affection; violent occipital headaches, dysphagia, and syphilitic throat and bone affections; caries of bones of feet); Plat mur nat (polyuria and salivation); Sedum acre (sexual irritability, relieves irritation of nerve centers and gives rest).

Antidote: Puls. Platina antidotes the bad effects of lead.

Dose

Sixth trituration to thirtieth potency.

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Leaders

Pride and over-estimation of one's self; looking down on others; things look small to her.

Genitals exceedingly sensitive, but excessive sexual desire; nymphomania, with ovarian. troubles; prolapsus or profuse menses.

Pains increase gradually and as gradually decrease (Stann.); sometimes attended with numbness (Cham.).

This remedy may be studied in three relations: in its relation to the mental, nervous and sexual systems. It has curious mental symptoms. Here are three of them: "Pride and over-estimation of one's self; looking down with haughtiness on others." "Illusion of fancy, on entering the house after walking an hour, as if everything about her were very small, and all persons mentally and physically inferior, but she herself physically and mentally superior." "Changing moods, gay and sad alternately." This last symptom is like Ignatia, Crocus, Nux moschata and Aconite, and Platina has another symptom like Aconite -"fear of death." Now the first two symptoms above mentioned might appear to some as of no practical value in the treatment of the sick. There is no pathological explanation for them beyond the fact of a generally disordered mind, which might take any other form of hallucination -But this is a valuable indication and found under no other remedy. I was led by it to prescribe the remedy in a very obstinate case of insanity which had resisted the skill of several allopathic physicians of note, and they had finally decided that the case must be sent to the insane asylum. The parents however, who were quite wealthy, could not consent to that, and were induced to try Homœopathy. I gave her Platina on the strength of this mental indication, which was very prominent, coupled with another prominent symptom, which also appears under this remedy, viz, "physical symptoms disappear and mental symptoms appear" and vice versa. The physical symptoms was a pain the whole length of the spine. This was the symptom alternating with the mental one. It was one of the most brilliant cures I ever saw. Improvement began the first day and never flagged, and she remained well now 15 years with never a sign of return.

The nervous symptoms outside the brain symptoms calling for Platina are: 1st "The pains increase gradually and as gradually decrease." 2nd. "This pains are attended with numbness of the parts" This first symptom you will remember is like Stannum but the Platinum patient is not characteristically so weak as the Stannum one. The second one is like Chamomilla, but the Platina patient is not so unvaryingly ugly as the Chamomilla one. Both are great mental remedies, however, and if any question arises (as there may) a close study of them in their entirety may be necessary.

In regard to the gradual outset of the pains of Platina and Stannum, Belladonna has exactly the opposite: but Belladonna more resembles the Platina in its brain symptoms.

Sexual organs. "Nymphomania aggravated in the lying-in; tingling or tittilation up into the abdomen." "Excessive sexual desire, especially in virgins; premature or excessive development of sexual instinct." "Genitals excessively sensitive; cannot bear to be touched; will almost go into a spasm from an examination, and almost faint during intercourse." "Metrorrhagia or profuse menses; blood black and clotted."

Ovarian trouble and prolapsus with the profuse menses and excessive sensitiveness of the genitals to touch or coition. All these are very strong indications for this remedy. All these symptoms, mental, nervous, spasmodic, sexual, etc., would indicate that Platina ought to be a good remedy for that protean malady, hysteria, and so abundant experience has proven it to be. Here again I have, as in the case of Zincum and Stannum, found the higher preparation of the drug most potent for good, though in, a case of insanity I used the 6th, not having it high at that time.

Platina has a form of constipation similar to Alumina, i. e., the stools adhere to the anus like soft clay.

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Mind and Disposition

Pride and over-estimation of oneself ; looking down with haughtiness on others. Illusion ; every thing around her is very small and everybody inferior to her in body and mind. Low-spirited, inclined to shed tears, worse in the evening. Anxiety, horrified by the thought that he would die soon. Great indifference. After anger alternate laughing and weeping, with great anguish and fear of death. Delirium, with fear of men, often changing, with over-estimation of oneself. Mania ; with great pride ; with fault-finding ; with unchaste talk ; trembling and clonic spasms, caused by fright or from anger. Pressing headache from without to within the forehead and temples, gradually increasing and decreasing, aggravated in the evening, from stooping, while at rest, in the room ; ameliorated from exercise and in the open air. Constrictive headache, as if a tape were tightly drawn around it, with sensation of numbness in the brain, flushes of heat and ill-humor, worse from stooping and exercise. Formication in one temple, extending to the lower jaw, with sensation of coldness on that spot ; worse in the evening and when at rest, better from rubbing. Sensation of numbness in the head and externally on the vertex, preceded by a sensation of contraction of the brain and the scalp ; worse in the evening and while sitting, better from motion and in the open air.

Eyes

Sensation of coldness in the eyes. Spasmodic trembling and twitching of the eyelids. The objects appear smaller than they really are.

Ears

Otalgia, with cramp pain. Sensation of coldness in the ears, with sensation of numbness extending to the cheeks and lips.

Nose

Numbness and cramp pain in the nose.

Face

Redness and burning heat of the face, with violent thirst, especially towards evening. Sensation of coldness, tingling and numbness in (one side of) the face. Cramp pain and sensation of numbness in the (left) malar bone. Benumbing, dull pressure in the malar bone. Lock-jaw. Pale, sunken countenance. Sensation of coldness, especially in the mouth. Purple, net-like appearance on the chin.

Mouth and Throat

Rhagades in the gums. Cramp-like drawing in the throat, as if it were constricted. Hawking of mucus, with scraping in the throat. Sensation as if the tongue were scalded. Sensation as if the palate were elongated.

Stomach and Abdomen

Aversion to food on account of feeling low-spirited. Thirstlessness. Sweet taste on the tip of the tongue. Ravenous appetite and hasty eating, with the inclination to detest every thing around himself. Unsuccessful efforts to eructate. Continuous nausea, with trembling weakness and anguish. Pressure on the stomach, especially after eating. Sensation of constriction in the pit of the stomach and in the abdomen. Burning in the pit of the stomach, extending into the abdomen. Pinching in the region of the navel. Pressing and bearing down in the abdomen, extending into the pelvis. Lead-colic.

Stool and Anus

Constipation ; after lead poisoning or while travelling ; frequent urging, with expulsion of only small portions of feces, with great straining. After an evacuation sensation of great weakness in the abdomen or chilliness. Itching-tingling and tenesmus at the anus, especially in the evening.

Urinary Organs

Frequent micturition, with slow flow of urine. Urine red, with white clouds or turbid with red sediment.

Sexual Organs

Men. Unnaturally increased sexual desire, with violent erections, especially at night. Women. Painful sensitiveness of the genitals internally and externally. Bearing down to the genitals and pressing down in the abdomen. Nymphomania ; unnatural excitement of the sexual desire, especially in lying-in-women, with voluptuous tingling in the external and internal sexual organs. Induration of the uterus. Menstruation too early and too profuse (lasting but a short time), with clotted, dark blood. Metrorrhagia, with great excitability of the sexual system. Spasms on the appearance of the menstruation. Pressing down in the genitals during menstruation.

Respiratory Organs

Difficult, anxious respiration. Shortness of breath, as if the chest were constricted, with anxious warm rising. Inclination to draw a long breath, prevented by a sensation of weakness in the chest. Loss of voice (aphony). Sensation of cramp-pain externally on the thorax, gradually increasing and decreasing. Palpitation of the heart with anxiety.

Back and Neck

Pains in the back, and small of the back, as if bruised, especially when pressing on it, or when bending backward. Sensation of numbness in the os sacrum. Stiffness of the neck. Weakness, tension and numbness in the neck.

Extremities

Upper. Cramp-like pains in the arms and hands. Paralytic drawing and weakness in the arms. Ulcers on the fingers. Lower. Cramp-like pains in the legs. Sensation of stiffness in the lower legs. Ulcers on the toes.

Generalities

Cramp-like pains, especially in the extremities and joints. Dull, pushing or inward, pressing pains, as from the pressure of a plug. Tension in the limbs as if they were wrapped up tightly. Paralytic sensation, numbness and stiffness in the limbs, generally accompanied by coldness. Paralytic weakness in the limbs, especially when at rest. Hysterical spasms, with full consciousness (at the dawn of day, morning).

Sleep

Spasmodic yawning, especially in the afternoon. Wakens (after midnight) with frightful dreams, want of consciousness. At night and daring sleep he lies with his arms thrown over his head, the thighs drawn up, and inclined to have his legs uncovered.

Fever

Pulse small, feeble, frequently tremulous. Chill in the evening, with trembling and tremulous sensation over the whole body. Shaking chill when going from the room into the open, even warm, air. Chilliness predominates, with low spirits, which ceases during the heat. Heat, with sensation of burning in the face, without any visible change in the color of the face. Flushes of heat, interrupted by chilliness. Gradually increasing, and in the same manner gradually decreasing heat. Perspiration only during the sleep, ceasing as soon one wakens.

Skin

Sensation of soreness, tingling smarting and itching, or pricking, stinging burning, with inclination to scratch on different parts of the body. Ulcers on the fingers and toes.

Conditions

Is especially suitable for women. Alternate appearance of the symptoms of the body and mind ; as soon as the one group predominates the other ceases. Aggravation of such symptoms in the evening and in the room as are ameliorated in the open air. Most ailments are worse when at rest, and better during motion. The pains begin slightly increase gradually, and decrease in the same slow, gradual manner.

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General

Platinum. An Element. (Also called Platina.) Pt. (A. W. 194.3.) Trituration.

Clinical

Amenorrhœa. Chlorosis. Constipation. Convulsions. Delusions . Dentition. Depression of spirits . Dysmenia. Erotomania. Fear . Gout. Hæmorrhage. Hæmorrhoids. Hysteria . Lead poisoning. Masturbation. Melancholia , Menorrhagia. Menses, suppressed. Mind, affections of. Neuralgia. Neurasthenia. Numbness . Nymphomania. Ovaries, affections of . Pruritus vulvæ. Rheumatism. Sexual perversion. Spasms. Tapeworm. Uterus, induration of. Vaginismus. Yawning, spasmodic.

Characteristics

The original name of Platinum was "Platina," being a Spanish word meaning "like silver" ( Plata being Spanish for silver). The metal was introduced into Europe from South America in the middle of the eighteenth century. It is always found in association with other metals, chiefly Rhodium, Osmium, Iridium, Palladium. Hahnemann was the first to think of it as a medicine, and his proving in the Chronic Diseases is the basis of our knowledge of its action. One characteristic symptom, either when found alone or in association with other conditions, has led to many cures with Plat . ─ Lost sense of proportion in both ocular and mental vision. Objects look small or the patient thinks them small. This becomes pride and hauteur in the mental sphere; the patient (generally a woman) looks down on everything and everybody. This is a keynote of Plat . Another is the occurrence of cramps, cramping pains and spasms, developing into convulsions. The cramping pains = numbness and tingling in the parts affected. Pains as if nipped, squeezed in a vice, and these pains increase gradually to an acme and then as gradually decline. In the rectum this becomes tenesmus; in vagina, vaginismus. Another general keynote is the alternation of mental and physical symptoms: as physical symptoms disappear mental symptoms appear, and vice versâ . Nash cured a case of insanity of some duration with Plat ., being led to the remedy by an alternation of the mental symptoms with a pain the whole length of the spine. This alternating feature is also seen between one mental state and another: Changing moods; sad and gay alternately; laughs and cries by turns. There is also a perverse state: Laughs immoderately, but in the wrong place; laughs at serious things. The mental disorder at times takes a homicidal form. Jahr cured with Plat . a woman who had an inspiration to kill her child, and Jules Gaudy recorded ( Jour. Belge d'H ., quoted Amer. H ., xxii. 314) the case of a woman who was tormented with an almost irresistible impulse to kill her husband, whom she loved passionately, and with whom she was perfectly happy. The sight of a knife had an irresistible fascination for her, and she was often obliged to leave the table to free herself from the impulse. A few months before, she had lost a child a short time after confinement, which had been followed by profuse and desperately persistent hæmorrhage. Recovering from this she became restless, irritable, and her whole existence was ruled by this terrible impulse. Plat . 6x and 30x relieved and finally cured her. Kent ( Med. Adv ., xxv. 184) records the case of a middle-aged lady, mother of several grown-up daughters, who complained of a peculiar mental symptom: A fear, in the absence of her husband, that he would never return, that he would die, or be run over. She wept all the time he was away. Kent discovered that she had been treated for uterine displacement, and was then wearing a pessary. This was removed. Menstrual flow was copious, black, clotted. The external genitals were so sensitive that the usual napkin was intolerable. Plat . cured the whole case, including the displacement. Almost every symptom in this case was a characteristic. The sensitiveness of the external genitals is often so great as to make coition impossible. Digital examining of such a patient causes great pain. The action of Plat . to a large extent centres in and radiates from the sexual organs, male and female. It corresponds to masturbation before puberty, and also to the effects of masturbation. It was one of Gallavardin's remedies for the impulse to pederasty and sodomy. Tendency to uncover completely in sleep is a leading note of it. Excessive desire, especially in virgins. Premature and excessive development of sexual instinct and organs. Nymphomania < in puerperal state. During menses uterine spasms, convulsions. Convulsions of puerperal state. Catalepsy during menstruation. Spasms alternate between convulsive actions and opisthotonos; full consciousness. Spasms alternate with dyspnœa. Excessive itching in uterus; pruritus vulvæ. Plat . has some characteristic symptoms in relation to the bowels. Its cramping tendency makes it an antidote to lead poisoning; and it has constipation scarcely less marked than that of Pb ., though differing from it. The stools of Plat . are tenacious and sticky, adhere to the rectum and anus like putty; or they may be hard as if burnt; the constipation comes on whilst travelling; in emigrants; during pregnancy. Peculiar Sensations and Symptoms are: As if her senses would vanish. As if parts of malar bones were between screws. As if everything about her were very small. As if she were constantly growing longer and longer. As if she did not belong to her own family. Vertigo as if torn and pulled with threads. Forehead as if constricted; screwed on; as if a board pressed against it. As if temples too tightly bound. Scalp as if contracted; as if a heavy weight on it. As if head were enlarged. As if throat constricted; palate elongated; tongue scalded. As if abdomen, chest, nape, limbs, thigh, great toe, tightly wrapped or constricted. Back and small of back as if broken. Crawling, tingling, numb sensations. Spasmodic yawning. Pains go from right to left. The right side is somewhat more pronouncedly affected than the left. Severe stitches in right ovary. The symptoms are periodic and paroxysmal, as well as alternating. Plat . is suited to women with dark hair; thin, sanguine, bilious; with too frequent and too profuse menses; sexual organs exceedingly sensitive. Hysterical and hæmorrhoidal patients. The symptoms are: < By touch and pressure. < Fasting. < During menses. < Rest; sitting; standing; bending backward. > By motion. Walking and going upstairs < pressure in genitals; > hysteric rheumatism. Walking against wind = sudden arrest of breathing. < Evening and night. Headache commences on waking. < In warm room; > in open air (but open air = fluent coryza and shaking chill on going from room; heat > cramp pain in legs and irritability and chilliness. Obliged to stretch, which > .

Relations

Antidoted by: Puls., Nit. sp. d. (Teste, who classes Plat. with Thuj., Brom., and Castor, says Colch. is the best antidote to all four). Antidote to: Lead. Complementary: Pallad. (both affect right ovary, but Pallad. has > from pressure). Compatible: Bell., Ign., Lyc., Puls., Rhus, Sep., Ver. Compare: Pride, Pall. (Plat. egotistical, despises others; Pall. easily wounded, attaches importance to others), Lyc. (imperious). Spasms and emaciation from antepuberty masturbation, Staph. Uterine affections, nymphomania, Aur., Sep. (the nymphomania of Plat. is more intense; Plat. is intermediate between Aur. and Sep. in weariness of life; the uterine cramps of Plat. are followed by numbness; those of Sep. are a clutching as if suddenly seized then Suddenly relaxed). Hysteria, indurated ulcers, Tarent. Sees ghosts and demons, Hyo., K. bro. Shamelessness, uncovers, Pho., Hyo. (Hyo. sees things larger; Plat. smaller). Thinks death near and fears it, Aco., Ars. Dark, stringy hæmorrhage, Cham., Croc. (Croc. has sensation of something alive). Pains come and go gradually, Stan., Arg. n. (Bell. and Lyc., suddenly). Sensitive to coitus, Sep., Bell. (dry vagina), Fer., Nat. m., Apis (with stinging in ovary), Thuj., Kre. (followed by bloody flow), Murex, Orig. Constipation when travelling (Lyc. when from home; Bry. when at sea). Weak and exhausted feeling for two hours after stool, Sep. Sticky stools like soft clay, Alm. Hysteria, pressure at root of nose, Ign. Excessive sexual development, especially in virgins, K. pho. Masturbation in girls, Orig., Gratiol. Dark-haired women, Sep. Laughs immoderately at serious things, Anac., Nat. m., Lyc., Pho.

Causation

Fright. Vexation. Bereavement. Fit of passion. Sexual excess. Masturbation.

Mind

Sadness, esp. in evening, with strong inclination to weep often (every second day) alternating with excessive gaiety and buffoonery. ─ Involuntary inclination to whistle and sing. ─ Involuntary weeping. ─ Loud cries for help. ─ Thinks she stands alone in the world. ─ Anxietas præcordium to an excessive degree, with great fear of death, which is believed to be very near, accompanied by trembling, palpitation of heart, and obstructed respiration. ─ Sensation of dread and horror. ─ Fear, with trembling of hands and feet and confusion of ideas, as if all persons approaching were demons. ─ Hysterical humour, with great mental depression, nervous weakness, and over-excitement of vascular system. ─ Mental symptoms in general: amativeness; state of disposition. ─ Great irritability, with prolonged ill-humour, after a fit of passion. ─ Apathetic indifference and absence of mind. ─ Pride and self-conceit, with contempt for others, even for those who are usually most beloved and respected; < indoors, > in open air and sunshine. ─ Impulse to kill her own child; her husband; (on seeing a knife). ─ Distraction and forgetfulness. ─ Loss of consciousness. ─ Incoherency of speech. ─ Delusion of the senses; feeling as of being too large, and, on the contrary, all other things and persons seem to be too small and too low. ─ Delirium, with fear of men, often changing, with over-estimation of oneself. ─ Mania: with great pride; with fault-finding; with unchaste talk; trembling and clonic spasms, caused by fright or from anger.

Head

Tensive confusion in forehead, as if head were compressed in a vice. ─ Pressing headache from without to within the forehead and temples, gradually increasing and decreasing, < in evening from stooping, while it rest, in the room; > from exercise and in open air. ─ Transient attacks of vertigo in evening with loss of consciousness. ─ Vertigo on sitting down or ascending stairs. ─ Headache which increases gradually, or by fits, until it becomes; very violent, and which diminishes progressively in same manner. ─ Attack of headache, with nausea and vomiting. ─ Sensation of numbness in head, and externally at vertex, preceded by a sensation of contraction of brain and of scalp; < in evening and while sitting, > from motion and in open air. ─ Pain in sides of head, as if caused by a plug. ─ Constrictive headache, as if a tape were tightly drawn around it, with sensation of numbness in brain, flushes of heat and ill-humour, < from stooping and exercice. ─ Formication in one temple, extending to lower jaw, with sensation of coldness on that spot; < in evening and when at rest, > from rubbing. ─ Pressive, cramp-like, compressive pains in the forehead and temples, esp. in root of nose, greatly < by movement and by stooping, sometimes with heat and redness of face, inquietude, and weeping. ─ Tingling in temples, as if caused by insects. ─ Buzzing and noise in head, like that of a mill.

Eyes

Pain in eyes after fatiguing the sight by looking attentively at an object. ─ Tension in sockets, with gnawing pain, as from excoriation in margins. ─ Cramp-like pain in edges of orbits. ─ Compressive tension in eyeballs. ─ Aching in eyes with sleep. ─ Creeping tingling in canthi. ─ Sensation of heat or of coldness and smarting in eyes. ─ Trembling or spasmodic quivering of eyelids. ─ Eyes convulsed. ─ Objects appear smaller than they really are. ─ Confused sight, as if directed through a veil, often with painless twitchings round the eye. ─ Quivering and sparkling before sight.

Ears

Otalgia with cramp-like pain. ─ Shocks in ears. ─ (Sticking jerking in r. outer ear with) sensation of numbness and of coldness in ears, extending to cheeks and lips. ─ Gnawing tingling in ears. ─ Roaring, whizzing, and ringing in ears. ─ Dull thundering and rumbling in ears.

Nose

Cramp-like pain, with sensation of numbness in nose and at root of nose. ─ Ineffectual want to sneeze and tingling in nose. ─ Dry coryza, often semi-lateral. ─ Corrosive sensation on nose, as of something acrid.

Face

Face pale, wan, and sunken. ─ Burning heat and glowing redness in face, with ardent thirst and dryness of mouth, esp. in evening. ─ Distortion of muscles of face. ─ Sensation of coldness, with tingling and sensation of numbness throughout (r.) side of face. ─ Cramp and tensive pressure in zygomatic processes. ─ Benumbing, dull pressure in malar bone. ─ Pulsative digging in jaws, esp. in evening and during repose, with involuntary weeping. ─ Lockjaw. ─ Gnawing, with pain as from excoriation in lips and chin, which compel scratching. ─ Smarting and lancinating vesicles on lips. ─ Lips dry and cracked. ─ Plexus venarum, of a reddish blue colour, on chin. ─ Sensation of torpor or coldness round mouth and chin. ─ Cramp in jaw.

Teeth

Odontalgia with pulsative and digging pain. ─ Cramp-like drawing, which recurs by fits, in teeth. ─ Numb pain in l. lower teeth. ─ Fissures in gums.

Mouth

Sensation of coldness, esp. in mouth. ─ Crawling sensation on tongue. ─ Burnings pain under tongue. ─ Sensation in tongue as if it had been burnt or scalded.

Throat

Sensation as if throat were raw during (empty) deglutition and at other times. ─ Cramp-like drawing in throat, like a constriction. ─ Sensation as if palate or uvula were elongated. ─ Scraping and accumulation of phlegm in throat. ─ Hawking up of phlegm.

Appetite

Mucous, clammy taste. ─ Sweetish taste on tip of tongue. ─ Adipsia. ─ Loss of appetite after the first mouthful. ─ Complete loss of appetite. ─ Repugnance to food, arising from sadness. ─ Dislike to food. ─ Bulimy. ─ Voracious rapidity in eating, with a disposition to find fault with everything (to detest everything around, himself). ─ After a meal, risings, pressure on stomach; and colic.

Stomach

Ineffectual effort to eructate. ─ Empty, noisy eructations. ─ Serum of a disagreeable sweetish bitterness ascends throat, and puts patient in danger of choking. ─ Continued nausea, with lassitude, trembling, and anxiety. ─ Aching (pressure) in stomach, esp. after a meal. ─ Sensation of constriction in pit of stomach, extending into abdomen. ─ Fermentations in epigastric region. ─ Flatulent soreness towards hypogastrium. ─ Contractive pain in scrobiculus, as if it were squeezed too tightly. ─ Pressure or shocks, or else throbbings, shootings, and pinchings in scrobiculus. ─ Burning sensation in scrobiculus, sometimes extending from throat into abdomen.

Abdomen

Pains in abdomen, with dull and jerking pressure. ─ Inflation of abdomen, with difficult and interrupted expulsion of flatus. ─ Pressing and bearing down in abdomen extending into pelvis. ─ Lead colic. ─ Constriction in abdomen. ─ Pinchings in umbilical region. ─ Shootings in the side of abdomen and in umbilical region. ─ Gnawing in abdomen. ─ Drawing in groins, commencing from sacrum.

Stool and Anus

Constipation: after lead poisoning or while travelling; sometimes very obstinate. ─ The stool is discharged with difficulty, seeming to stick to anus and rectum like putty. ─ Frequent want, with scanty evacuation, which is voided in pieces, and with great efforts. ─ Evacuations of consistence of pap. ─ Stool hard, as if burnt. ─ Tenia and ascarides are discharged from rectum during evacuation and at other times. ─ After evacuation general shuddering or sensation of weakness in abdomen. ─ Frequent itching, tingling, and tenesmus in anus, esp. in the evening (before sleep). ─ Violent and dull lancinations in rectum.

Urinary Organs

Red urine with a white cloud, or else which becomes turbid, and deposits a red sediment. ─ Slow but frequent emission of urine.

Male Sexual Organs

Burning pain and gnawing in scrotum. ─ Unnatural increase of sexual desire, with frequent erections, esp. at night (with amorous dreams). ─ Voluptuous crawling in genital organs and abdomen, with anxious oppression and palpitation, then painless pressure downwards in genitals with sticking in sinciput and exhaustion. ─ Flow of prostatic fluid. ─ Coition of too short duration, with but little enjoyment.

Female Sexual Organs

Sensation of bearing down towards genital organs, with aching in abdomen. ─ Unnatural increase of sexual desire, with painful sensibility and voluptuous tingling from genitals up into abdomen. ─ Nymphomania, which may occur even during the lying-in period. ─ Induration of uterus. ─ Sanguineous congestion in uterus. ─ Miscarriage. ─ Metrorrhagia (with great excitability of the sexual system) of thick, deep-coloured blood, with drawings in groins. ─ Catamenia too early and too profuse (blood dark and coagulated), sometimes with headache, restlessness, and tears. ─ Menstruation, when the discharge is very abundant, thick and black like tar, and is very exhausting; spasms and screaming at every menstrual period. ─ Catamenia too long continued. ─ Before catamenia, cuttings and pains like those of labour in hypogastrium. ─ Cramps at commencement of catamenia. ─ Painful sensitiveness and constant pressure in mons veneris and genital organs, with internal chill and external coldness, except face. ─ Severe stitches in r. ovarian region. ─ During catamenia, pressure as of a general bearing down towards genital organs, which are very sensitive. ─ Leucorrhœa, like white of eggs, flowing chiefly after urinating, and on rising from a seat.

Respiratory Organs

Aphonia. ─ Short, nervous, dry cough, with palpitation and dyspnœa. ─ Short, difficult, and anxious respiration.

Chest

Shortness of breath, with constrictive oppression of chest. ─ Inclination to draw a long breath, prevented by a sensation of weakness in chest. ─ Anxious oppression of chest, with sensation of heat, which ascends from epigastrium. ─ Pain in chest, as if a weight were pressing upon it, with want to take a full inspiration, which is hindered by a sensation of weakness. ─ Tension, pressure, and shootings in sides of chest, which do not permit lying down on either side. ─ Aching and dull blows in chest. ─ Spasmodic pressure in one side of chest. ─ Spasmodic pain in chest, commencing slightly, increasing to a certain intensity, and gradually diminishing in same way. ─ Dull lancinations in sides of chest, during an inspiration.

Heart

Burning and sticking low down by heart. ─ A dull pressure in region of apex of heart. ─ Anxious palpitation of heart.

Neck and Back

Rigidity of nape of neck. ─ Weakness and sensation of tensive numbness in nape of neck (the head sinks forward). ─ Contusive pain in loins and in back, esp. when pressing upon them, or else when bending backwards. ─ Pains in back and small of back as if broken, after a walk < bending backwards. ─ Spasmodic pain in loins. ─ Sensation of numbness in coccyx, as after a blow.

Limbs

Cramp-like jerking and drawing pains in limbs and joints. ─ Tension in limbs (esp. thighs) as if bound too tightly with ligatures. ─ Attack of spasmodic rigidity in limbs, without loss of consciousness, but with clenching of jaws, loss of speech, eyes convulsed, and involuntary movements of the commissures of lips and eyelids. ─ Tingling restlessness, sensation of weakness and trembling in limbs, esp. during repose and in open air.

Upper Limbs

Heaviness and lassitude of arms, with paralytic pulling. ─ Paralysed sensation in l. arm; in both arms. ─ Aching and spasmodic pain in forearms, hands, and fingers, esp. when grasping anything firmly. ─ Itching, gnawing, pricking, and burning sensation in arms, hands, and fingers. ─ Sensation of stiffness in forearms. ─ Painful throbbing in fingers. ─ Distortion of fingers. ─ Numbness of fingers. ─ Trembling of r. thumb, with numbness. ─ Numbness of little finger. ─ Ulcers on fingers.

Lower Limbs

Spasmodic pain and tension in thighs, feet, and toes. ─ Weakness of thighs and knees, as if they were broken. ─ Pain as from a blow in l. knee. ─ Shocks and blows in legs. ─ Lassitude of legs. ─ Restlessness and trembling in legs, with a sensation of numbness and rigidity. ─ Lassitude and numbness in feet when seated. ─ Coldness of feet. ─ Gnawing, excoriation, and smarting in ankle-bones, greatly < by least touch. ─ Painful throbbing in toes. ─ Swelling on ball of toe, with tearing and nocturnal pulsations. ─ Ulcers on toes. ─ Pain in great toe as if too tightly enveloped.

Generalities

Dark-haired females. ─ Face changing colour frequently. ─ Rising in throat. ─ Tapeworm, other symptoms agreeing. ─ Contraction of inner parts. ─ Catalepsy; epilepsy with rigor; tonic spasms. ─ Very great paleness of skin. ─ Spasmodic yawning. ─ Pains like labour pains. ─ Sensation as of a hoop around parts. ─ Violent shocks as if from pain. ─ Sensation of prickling in the outer parts. ─ Sensation of coldness in outer parts. ─ Compressive, cramp-like, constrictive, or pressive pains, as if caused by a plug, or by dull blows. ─ Cramp-like, jerking, and drawing pains in limbs and joints. ─ Tension in limbs, as if bound too tightly with ligatures. ─ Pains, as from a contusion, a blow, or a bruise, esp. when pressing on part affected. ─ Pains, slight at commencement, increase gradually, often at regular intervals, and diminish in same manner. ─ Sensation of torpor and paralytic rigidity in various parts, often with trembling and palpitation of heart. ─ Attack of spasmodic rigidity in limbs, without loss of consciousness, but with clenching of jaws, loss of speech, eyes convulsed, and involuntary movements of commissures of lips and eyelids. ─ The spasmodic attacks manifest themselves chiefly at daybreak. ─ Affections caused by fright, by vexation, or by a fit of passion. ─ Moral and physical affections, appearing alternately. ─ Excessive weakness (paralytic weakness in limbs). ─ Dull, pushing, or inward pressing pains, as from dull blows. ─ Tingling restlessness, sensation of weakness and trembling in limbs, esp. during repose and in open air. ─ Majority of symptoms < by repose, in the evening; from anger; more in females than males; after lying down and rising again; when sitting; after rising; and > by movement. ─ The affections which are > in open air are generally < towards evening and in a room.

Skin

Tingling gnawing, with pain as of excoriation, and itching or burning, pricking, and shooting pain on various parts of skin, which provokes scratching. ─ Ulcers (on fingers and toes).

Sleep

Convulsive and spasmodic yawning, esp. in afternoon. ─ Great disposition to sleep in evening. ─ Prolonged sleep in morning. ─ Anxious dreams of wars and bloodshed. ─ Lascivious dreams. ─ Waking at night, esp. after midnight (with frightful dreams, want of consciousness), or with anxious, sad, and distressing thoughts. ─ Bewilderment at night on waking. ─ At night patient lies on back, with arms above head, legs drawn up, with strong inclination to uncover them.

Fever

Pulse small, feeble, frequently tremulous. ─ Constant shivering and shuddering over whole body, esp. in open air. ─ Shaking chill when going from the room into the open, even warm air. ─ Chilliness predominates, with low spirits, which ceases during heat. ─ Heat with sensation of burning in face, without any visible change in colour of face (she thought she was very red, but colour the same as usual). ─ Flushes of heat, interrupted by chilliness. ─ Gradually increasing, and in the same manner gradually decreasing heat. ─ Perspiration only during sleep, ceasing as soon as one wakens.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

Mind

Sensitive mood.
Inclination to embrace everybody.
Attacks of cheerfulness ; increased feeling of strength.
Very absent-minded and forgetful.
Great indifference.
Ill-humor in morning.
Morose and discontented.
Arrogant, reserved, absent-minded.
Pride and overestimation of one's self ; looking down with haughtiness on others.
Cold, haughty, too well satisfied with one's self, and not at all anxious about the future.
Contemptuous, pitiful, looking down upon people usually venerated, with a kind of casting them off, in paroxysms against her will.
Dislikes her children ; calls them too little. θ Induration of os tincæ.
Any serious thought is terrifying.
Anxiety with trembling of hands and flushes of heat over whole body.
Deathly anxiety, as if her senses would vanish, with trembling of all the limbs, oppression of breath and violent palpitation.
Very peevish and easily excited ; he could have beaten any one without provocation.
After anger alternate laughing and weeping, with great anguish and fear of death.
Trifling things produce profound vexation ; remains a long time in the sulks.
Anxiety, weeping and palpitation, with numb feeling in malar bones, as if the parts were between screws.
Everything seems strange and horrible to her.
She thinks all persons are demons.
Past events trouble her.
Satiety of life, with taciturnity and fear of death.
Much anguish ; she feels as if she would lose her senses and die soon.
Out of sorts with the whole world ; everything seems too narrow ; weeping mood.
Silence, with involuntary weeping.
Sits alone, sad and morose, without talking ; followed by inconsolable weeping, especially when spoken to.
Thinks she is left entirely to herself and stands alone in the world.
Very restless disposition, so that she could not remain anywhere, with sadness ; the most joyful things distressed her ; thought she had no place in the world ; life was wearisome, but had great dread of death, which she believed near at hand.
Weeping mood and sadness ; < in house ; > in open air.
Low-spirited ; inclined to shed tears ; < in evening ; weeps with the pains.
Weeping mood and crying after being mildly reproached.
Mood changing ; cheerful or depressed.
Physical symptoms disappear and mental symptoms appear, and vice versa.
Precordial anguish with palpitation and fear of death and of imaginary forms, ghosts.
While suffering from a slight erysipelas faciei, took leave of her children, exhorted her husband to join church, wanted people to join her in prayer, felt happy to join her Redeemer.
Irritable, easily angered, sometimes quite violent, at same time great bodily activity ; at other times very melancholy and lachrymose, with indifference ; depressed condition of physical powers ; she would lie on sofa, would hardly speak, anxiousness and fear of
approaching death ; menses much too frequent, with copious leucorrhœa between periods, consisting of clear mucus ; menstrual flow intermingled with clots which were discharged with preceding pain in belly and a certain feeling of bearing down ; aversion to coition and yet
dreams of intense lasciviousness, terminating an emission of profuse sticky fluid ; bowels constipated or diarrheic. θ Melancholia.
Illusions of fantasy on entering the house after walking an hour, as if everything about her were very small and all persons mentally and physically inferior, but she herself physically large and superior ; the room seemed gloomy and unpleasant,
with apprehensive and fretful mood.
It seems to her as if she does not belong to her own family ; after a short absence everything seems entirely changed.
Disturbed state of mind ; religious, with taciturnity, haughtiness, voluptuousness and cruelty.
Delirium, with fear of men ; often changing, with overestimation of oneself.
Mania : with great pride ; fault-finding ; unchaste talk ; trembling and clonic spasms ; caused by fright and anger.
Involuntary disposition to whistle or sing ; canine hunger ; eats greedily.
Talks almost continually about fanciful things or such as have really occurred ; of faithless love ; of her teacher and school days ; laughs, sings, dances, weeps, makes grimaces, and gesticulates ; clings obstinately to her ideas,
without, however, growing angry about it ; face distorted ; eyes fixed ; no desire to eat or drink ; things offered her are hastily dispatched.
Forgetful, absent-minded ; listens often attentively to conversation, and at the end knows nothing about it ; melancholy with great fear of death ; imagines himself superior to his wife ; griping in umbilical region, particularly towards evening, as if he had drunk
unfermented beer ; although there are frequent urging and pressure in rectum, stool does not occur daily, is difficult and discharged in pieces, with much pressure of abdominal muscles.
Melancholia in a woman æt. 60 ; twelve years ago, after catamenia had been absent for months, there occurred a permanent leucorrhœa, of very fetid odor ; one morning did not quit her bedroom as usual and never left it for twelve years ; spent her time seated on bed, in
deep meditation or praying aloud ; complaining, weeping and howling ; rejected all cooked food and took no notice of anything about her ; only at night got out of bed and ran about room without apparent object ; suffers unspeakable pangs of conscience in consequence of a
faux pas when thirty-two years old ; says she has brought disgrace upon her family, and that she has incurred the penalty of damnation ; in order to do penance gave away whatever she could lay her hands upon, so that she had to be constantly watched ; after her confessor
asserted that she could not hope for pardon or heaven, she seemed in absolute despair ; bemoaned her misery throughout the night, wringing her hands and beseeching that she might be delivered from the hell of her conscience ; twice attempted self-destruction ; in spite of her
tendency to suicide, dreaded death and disliked any conversation pertaining thereto ; wished to live and do penance in order to mitigate her eternal punishment.
Mental disturbance after fright, grief or vexation.
Mental depression from onanism.
Affections from pride.
Puerperal mania of a violent type ; she would dance, sing, talk rapidly and continuously, when awake ; everything was removed from the room in which she was confined (except her piano, of which she was fond), because she would destroy everything she could lay hands
upon ; she would play for hours at a time upon her piano, sometimes beautifully, and at other times would bang and pound without any attempt at harmony ; assumed or seemed to feel herself a person of great superiority ; when her violent paroxysms were off, more moderate, she
complained of pain in back.

Sensorium

Vertigo : passing attacks in quick succession in evening when standing, as if he would lose his senses ; violent, she dare not move her eyes ; more in daytimes than at night, generally attended with palpitation of heart ; followed by headache ;
vertigo, as if torn and pulled into threads, especially on sitting down or going down stairs.

Inner head

Numb sensation in forehead, as if constricted ; in a warm, crowded room, soon increasing to a violent, dull, burrowing compression, with fretful impatience and heat in upper part of body, especially in head, as if anxious sweat would break out.
Tensive numb sensation in whole forehead, as after a blow, extending to nasal bone.
Cramplike drawing constriction in head from time to time, especially about forehead ; commencing slight, increasing till violent, and ending slight.
Cramplike pain in forehead, as if screwed in.
Headache with leucorrhœa ; nervous, tensive, cramping pains, affecting forehead and orbital regions.
Squeezing, constricting pain ; as if a board were pressed against forehead.
Pressing pain in forehead, from without inward, gradually increasing and decreasing ; flushes of heat with burning in face, interrupted by chilliness ; ill-humor, aversion to food on account of feeling low-spirited ; pressing downward during menses
and discharges of dark clotted blood ; says uterus "feels hard", i. e., subjectively ; cramp, pain in legs, > by heat ; sleeps with arms over head, knees drawn up ; shortness of breath, as if chest were constricted ; palpitation.
Sensation as of water in forehead.
Cramplike pain in right temple in afternoon.
Crawling like formication on right temple ; afterwards extending down along lower jaw, with a feeling of coldness in it.
Pressive cramplike pain in left temple, beginning gently ; increasing and decreasing.
Tense numb sensation in zygomata and mastoid processes as if head were screwed together.
Cramplike tension in temples, as if screwed in.
Sudden spasmodic contractive shocks through head, from right to left temple ; followed by a numb sensation, as if too tightly bound, with tremulousness of both sides of head.
Pain begins behind ear, affects side of face, lips, forehead and crown of head ; pain is severe, dull ; < from light and touch ; ushered in by cold feet ; commences on waking, gradually increases and about noon becomes
sharp ; continues so for two or three hours and about six in the evening goes off ; tongue apt to get red and dry ; weight in stomach ; tendency to constipation ; appetite indifferent ; dislike to animal food during menses, which are regular and natural, pains
in head and face disappear. θ Nervous headache.
Numb pain on top of vertex, as if scalp would be contracted, and as if a heavy weight were lying upon it.
Headache, as if tense.
Feeling, as if head were enlarged.
Headache gradually increasing till very severe, and then decreasing as gradually.
Sensation of numbness in head and externally on vertex, preceded by a sensation of contraction of brain and scalp ; < in evening and while sitting ; > from motion and in open air.
Neuralgic headaches in sensitive or hysterical persons ; cramplike pressing inward, with hot and red face and roaring in head ; pains gradually increase and as gradually decrease.
Numb feeling in brain.
Hysteric migraine, with uterine derangements ; great languor ; trembling sensation through whole body ; qualmishness ; eructations in morning and after breakfast.
Headache from anger or chagrin ; from uterine disease, with many hysterical symptoms.

Outer head

Formication in right temple, extending to lower jaw, with sensation of coldness in that spot ; < in evening and when at rest ; > from rubbing.

Sight and eyes

Scintillations before eyes ; headache.
Objects appear smaller than they really are.
Spasms of eyelids, in hysteria.
Painful crampings and compression around orbital region, particularly supraorbital, globe of eye sometimes participating and feeling sore.
Sore biting, as if denuded on upper margin of orbit.
Intermitting cramplike pain near outer margin of right orbit.
Wavelike benumbing pressure above right orbit.
Sensation of coldness in eyes.
Spasmodic trembling and twitching of eyelids.

Hearing and ears

Nervous deafness ; great variety of noises in ear ; reports in right ear like distant thunder.
Ringing, rolling or rumbling sound in ears.
Otalgia, with cramp pain, often with rumbling in ears.
Sensation of coldness in ears, with sensation of numbness extending to cheeks and lips.

Smell and nose

Oversensitiveness of smell.
Catarrhal obstruction of nose.
Fluent coryza in open air stopped up in house.
Epistaxis with dark, coagulated blood.
Numbness and cramp pain in nose.
Violent crampy pain at root of nose, with heat and red face.
Corrosive sensation on nose as from something acrid.

Upper face

Face pale, sunken ; frequent changing of color ; red and burning hot, with violent thirst, < towards evening.
Face feels cold and numb.
Sensation of coldness, crawling and numbness in whole r. side of face.
Creeping pains with coldness and numbness, especially r. side ; < at night and during rest. θ Prosopalgia.
Sharp neuralgic pain in left malar bone.
Painful cramplike sensation of numbness in left malar bone.
Cramp pain, steady compression, numb feeling and boring in malar bones.
Tearing, boring pain in right side of face, near canthus of eye, and extending along nasal branch of trifacial nerve ; profuse lachrymation and swelling of face ; attack generally comes on at night.
Prosopalgia affecting pes anserinus ; paroxysms in forenoon ; pains pinching, boring, burning ; facial muscles horribly distorted ; trismus ; face hot, dark red ; great lachrymation and ptyalism ; convulsions of upper extremities and pectoral
muscles ; loud crying, insane tossing about and striking out on all sides ; last six to eight hours, paroxysms in several short remissions, during which patient sat wrapped up in herself, menses profuse ; uterine spasms, headache, palpitation of heart, variable humor and
megrims.
Boring pain, cramplike ; painful feeling of numbness in malar bones and mastoid processes and chin as if parts were between screws, with anxiety, weeping and palpitation of heart ; menses profuse. θ Neuralgia.

Lower face

Purple, netlike appearance on chin.

Teeth and gums

Numb pain in left lower teeth, in morning after rising.
Pulsating digging through whole right jaw, < towards evening and at rest ; followed by numbness ; pains come and go gradually.

Taste, speech, tongue

Crawling on tongue.
Sensation as if tongue were scalded.
Sweet taste on tip of tongue.

Inner mouth

Rhagades in gums.
Sensation of coldness, especially in mouth.

Palate and throat

Cramplike drawing in throat, as if it were constricted.
Hawking of mucus with scraping in throat.
Sensation as if palate were elongated.
Rising in throat.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Loss of appetite on account of depressed mood.
Ravenous appetite and hasty eating, detests everything around him.
Thirstlessness ; or thirst during heat.

Eating and drinking

Feels < on an empty stomach.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Eructations empty, mornings.
Continuous nausea, with great weakness, anxiety and trembling sensation through whole body.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Fermentation in epigastric region.
Pressure in stomach, especially after meals.
Sensation of constriction in pit of stomach and in abdomen.
Burning in pit of stomach, extending into abdomen.
Griping in region of pit of stomach, immediately followed by pressure downward towards lower abdomen, like a sensation of flatulence.
Much fermentation in stomach, flatulence and constipation.
Jactitation of muscles in region of stomach.

Abdomen and loins

Sensation as if whole abdomen were tightly constricted.
Loss of appetite ; pain in limbs ; constipation ; stool resembling sheep's dung ; severe pain in umbilical region, extending to small of back, dull boring in character, < in paroxysms, with great anxiety, deeply sunken eyes and
distortion of face ; during paroxysm he screams and tosses about in bed in order to find relief by turning in all possible positions ; abdomen retracted ; hand pressed gently over umbilicus affords relief ; tongue clean ; tenesmus during urination ;
lassitude ; sleeplessness.
Painter's colic ; pain in umbilical region, extending through into back ; patient screams and tries to relieve pain by trying all possible positions.
Pressing and bearing down in abdomen, extending into pelvis.
Pressure in lower abdomen, with ill-humor, during profuse menses.
Painful drawing in both groins, as if menses would come on.
Obstinate incarceration of flatus.
Torpor of intestinal canal, with flatulence and constipation.

Stools and rectum

Frequent emission of odorless flatus.
Stools : half-digested, papescent ; hard, as if burnt ; scanty, difficult ; glutinous, adherent ; adhere to rectum and anus like soft clay.
Frequent urging with scanty stool, that is passed only in pieces, after great pressure, with a painful sensation of weakness and a tight sensation in abdominal muscles.
Stool retarded ; feces scanty, hard, evacuated with difficulty and almost dry, requiring great effort of abdominal muscles, and followed by great weakness in abdomen, with sharp stitches in rectum.
Constipation from inertia of bowels ; frequent unsuccessful urging to stool ; stools when passed seem to be like putty or glue and adhere tenaciously to anus.
Constipation : after lead poisoning ; while traveling ; frequent urging, with expulsion of only small portions, with great straining ; obstinate cases after failure of Nux vom. ; evacuations only after violent efforts, necessitating
manual assistance and composed of small black, hard masses ; chronic, depending upon neurosis, with spasmodic constriction, producing displacement of uterus ; in lying-in women ; in sedentary subjects with co-existing menstrual troubles ; of emigrants ; of pregnancy.
Before stool : frequent and ineffectual desire ; prolonged efforts ; violent pressure in rectum ; violent shooting in rectum compelling an outcry ; slight tenesmus.
During stool : cutting pains, burning and protrusion of hemorrhoids ; burning in rectum.
After stool : sensation of great weakness in abdomen and chilliness ; slight tenesmus and tingling in anus ; shooting pains in anus with spasmodic contractions in thighs ; violent itching in anus ; chilliness about head, breast and arms.
Old swellings of liver and spleen ; complains of nervous pains, especially of a pushing pain in rectum, which sometimes becomes excruciating ; has lost all courage and fears she will die of cancer of rectum, although examination of rectum and sexual
organs reveals nothing abnormal.
Itching, tingling and tenesmus at anus, especially in evening.
Crawling tenesmus in anus as in diarrhœa, every evening before going to sleep.
Tapeworm, other symptoms agreeing.

Urinary organs

Frequent micturition, with slow flow of urine.
Urine : pale, watery ; red, with white clouds ; turbid, depositing a red sediment.

Male sexual organs

Satyriasis.
Sexual desire excessive, with violent erections, especially at night.
Too frequent pollutions ; epilepsy arising from onanism.
Morbid excitement inducing onanism, especially if prepubic ; child has a melancholy and sheepish look ; epileptiform spasms ; hollow eyes ; yellow skin ; face pale and sunken ; consciousness not often ; limbs usually drawn up and spread apart.

Female sexual organs

Nymphomania, < in the lying-in ; tingling or titillation from genitals up into abdomen.
Voluptuous crawling in genitals and abdomen, with anxious oppression and palpitation, followed by painless pressure downward in genitals, with exhaustion and stitches in sinciput ; sympathetic with ovarian and uterine troubles, especially in barren women, driving to despair.
Excessive sexual desire, particularly in virgins ; premature or excessive development of sexual instinct.
Erotomania of a hysterical girl ; insatiable desire ; hyper-irritation ; itching in uterus ; restlessness and sleeplessness ; either moroseness or excessive hilarity ; cries very easily ; menses profuse, lasting six
to eight days.
Sudden sexual passion in a woman of 40, of very phlegmatic temperament and without the least sexual inclination ; terrible sexual excitement, so that her whole nature seemed changed ; wanted only to satisfy this passion, which seemed to stifle everything else ; although
fulfilling her marital duties, was insatiable ; in her dreams saw only voluptuous pictures, and awake spoke of nothing else ; unusual voluptuous itching in uterine region.
Genitals excessively sensitive ; cannot bear to be touched ; will go into spasms from an examination ; will almost faint during intercourse.
Pain in left ovarian region ; feeling of internal soreness, as if caused by a partially healed wound ; sterility of twelve years' standing.
Pinching, pressing down in ovarian region or groins or in pudenda, or alternating between the two ; paroxysmal burning pains in ovary ; attended with stitches in forehead and excessive sexual excitement ; suppuration after pus has been discharged under influence of
Laches. θ Disease of ovaries.
Young lady, æt. 20 ; when twelve years old was attacked with leucorrhœa, which continued ever since ; discharge uninterrupted day and night, like the white of an egg ; otherwise inoffensive but debilitating ; began to menstruate at fourteen ; no pain ; at
age of fifteen was seized with violent dragging, tearing pain and soreness in region of left ovary, the dragging extending through small of back ; pain < at times of menses, otherwise as permanent as the leucorrhœa ; menses blackish, in clots ; flow lasted from eight to
ten days ; violent compressive pain in temples and sense of weight upon chest, as if it would be crushed by a mass of lead ; soreness in region of ovary gradually extended over whole left side ; especially violent in small of back ; two or three times a day, violent
shootings from side along lower portion of left mamma, with nausea and giddiness ; for last three years has not been able to rest on left side, partly on account of soreness and partly on account of those shootings, which came on as soon as she attempted to lie on that side ; pain
dull, heavy, gnawing ; when rising from bed felt weary and broken down, eyes surrounded with blue circles : spirits drooping ; avoided society ; extremely melancholy. θ Chronic
ovaritis and leucorrhœa.
Ovaries inflamed, with burning pain in paroxysms ; stitches in forehead.
Ovaritis during climaxis, with menorrhagia ; and hot flushes ; chronic ovaritis.
Ovarian tumors and cysts.
Chronic gonorrhœa, with ovarian pain.
Dreadful and excessive itching in uterus in a woman affected with spinal irritation.
Frequent uterine spasms, sometimes so severe as to confine her to bed for several months ; hard tumor, like a ball, nearly painless on pressure in right side of abdomen.
Tensive drawing pains in ovaries and uterus after coition, lasting several hours. θ Uterine affection.
Indurations of uterus, with excessive sensitiveness.
Painful sensitiveness and continual pressure in region of mons veneris and genital organs ; body, except face, feels cold. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Induration of uterus ; ulceration with coexisting ovarian irritation.
Indurated and prolapsed uterus, with continual pressure in groins and back ; parts painfully sensitive to touch ; sensitiveness, even vaginismus during coition.
Heaviness and pressure in genital organs, < during and after walking, particularly after going up-stairs ; copious painless leucorrhœa ; constipation. θ Uterine displacement.
Polypus uteri ; scirrhus.
Hemorrhages in clots, with uterine cancer, fibroids, etc.
Metrorrhagia : body feels as if growing large ; genitals very sensitive ; nymphomania ; discharge of thick, black blood ; discharge occurred every fifteen minutes, finally every five ; sensation as if body were growing larger and longer, particularly lower
limbs ; rigor of right arm ; globus hystericus ; violent pressure upon chest ; compressive pain in both temples, so violent that she would take her life if not prevented by force ; < during menstrual period.
Blood flows in black clots and fluid, or in one grumous mass, thick, black and tarry ; feeling of horror at what may happen ; horror at thought of death, etc. θ Uterine
hemorrhage.
After an abortion with profuse hemorrhage ; menses every fourteen days, too copious and too long-lasting ; discharge at first coagulated and dark, later more fluid and brighter and of offensive odor ; flatulency ; stool only after
an injection ; blood does not cease to flow entirely between the periods, so that she has been confined to bed eight weeks. θ Metrorrhagia.
Frequent sensation as if menses would appear.
Discharge of much clotted blood during first day of menses.
Menses : too early, too profuse and too short-lasting ; flow dark, clotted ; thick, tough, stinking ; preceded by cramps ; too late and profuse ; much bearing down ; desire for stool, with backache ; during flow pinching in abdomen ;
excruciating pains in uterus ; twitchings with screams ; melancholy ; strong sexual desire ; too early ; scanty, with diarrhœa ; chilliness and sensitiveness of vulva ; much prostration ; twitchings with screams ; haughty disposition ;
pulling pain in groins.
Menorrhagia of older women, associated with melancholy.
Chronic menstrual disorders ; menses every fourteen days and excessive in quantity.
Amenorrhœa : with painful pressure, as if menses would appear ; pain in small of back ; in emigrants ; with extreme anguish and fear of dying ; from catching cold ; religious mania, constant restlessness, sleeplessness.
Complained of pain in stomach, which extended up into breast ; suffers when passing water, and has burning in privates ; it hurts her to sit down.
Vagina sensitive and tender.
Spasms and constriction of vagina.
Pruritus vulvæ ; voluptuous tingling, with anxiety and palpitation of heart.
Vulva painfully sensitive during coitus.
Painful sensitiveness with inward coldness of vulva.
Mons veneris cold and excessively sensitive to touch, cannot bear napkins usually applied.
Leucorrhœa : like white of egg, only by day, without sensation, after urination and after rising from a seat.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Nymphomania, in lying-in women, with voluptuous tingling from genitals into abdomen.
Melancholia during pregnancy, with occasional uterine hemorrhage and cramps.
Threatened abortion, especially in women who have had children.
Profuse, exhausting hemorrhage after abortion ; discharge black, clotted.
During labor : contractions interrupted by sensitiveness of vagina and external parts ; labor-pains spasmodic, painful but ineffectual ; pains reach a certain point, then cease, great suffering on examination, great tenderness of os, walls of vagina and vulva ;
spasms ; alternate convulsive actions and opisthotonos.
Eclampsia after parturition ; profuse hemorrhage ; yawning ; convulsions.
Convulsions fourteen hours after an ordinary confinement, recurring thirteen times in twenty-four hours, senseless to sopor.
After labor so sensitive she cannot bear touch of napkin.
Lochial discharge so copious as to cause fear of fatal termination unless speedily relieved ; genitals so sensitive that she shrank from least touch.
Puerperal fever ; acute pain in lower abdomen ; congestions to head ; wild, vivid illusions ; anxiety and fear of death ; sexual excitation ; nymphomania ; copious discharge of coagulated blood ; painful pressure in genitals ; severe
pains in small of back with internal chilliness ; pressure in forehead < from motion ; anxiety, with burning heat in face and great thirst ; restlessness ; fear of death.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Loss of voice.
Hysterical of reflex aphonia, associated with uterine troubles.
Stuttering, her voice sounds as if she had something in her mouth, as if posterior organs of speech were covered and clumsy.
Spasm of glottis.

Respiration

Difficult, anxious respiration.
Shortness of breath as if chest were constricted.
Deep breathing from sensation as of weight on chest.
Sudden arrest of breathing when walking against wind.

Cough

Hysterical dry cough, from stifling beneath upper fourth of sternum.
Chronic cough dependent on uterine diseases with mental disturbance.

Inner chest and lungs

Weakness in chest, as if respiration failed her ; breathed deeply, but could not breathe deeply enough ; prevented by weakness of respiratory organs.
Dull shocks of pressure in left half of chest.
Cramplike pain in left chest, gradually decreasing and increasing in intensity.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Incipient state of endo-and pericarditis in consequence of articular rheumatism ; intense anxiety and great palpitation of heart ; rise of temperature ; pulse thready, cannot be counted ; momentarily expectant of death ;
constant severe pressure on chest ; sleeplessness of eleven days' duration.
Palpitation after mental exertion, accompanied by anxiety and weeping.
Pulse regular, but small and weak, sometimes tremulous.

Neck and back

Tense numb sensation in nape close to occiput, as if tightly bound ; cramp in posterior muscles of neck ; tensive numb feeling, close to occiput, as if tied together.
Nape of neck weak ; head inclines forward.
Pains in back and small of back, as if bruised or broken ; < from pressure or bending backward.
Pressing from small of back upon pelvic organs.
Pain in small of back, going to groins and down limbs.
Numbness in sacrum and coccyx.
Sensation of numbness in coccyx as after a blow, while sitting.

Upper limbs

Cramplike pains close to shoulder, as if everything in chest were tightly constricted.
Weak, relaxed feeling in both arms, as after holding a heavy weight, > from motion of arms.
Sensation as if paralyzed in arms and hands during sleep ; on awaking normal sensibility is restored, but arms are very painful ; same symptoms occur at intervals during day, but last only a short time and can be produced by pressure upon parts where nerves are easily
reached ; menses profuse, lasting eight days.
Paralyzed sensation in left arm.
Sore burning at elbow, as if scraped.
Sensitive numb sensation and trembling of right thumb, as if bruised.
Numbness of little finger.

Lower limbs

Tightness of thighs, as if too tightly wrapped, with a feeling of weakness in them.
Sensation of great weakness in and about knee joints.
Weakness of thighs and knees, as if beaten.
Pain as after a severe blow, in left knee.
Tremulous restlessness in legs, with numb and torpid feeling when sitting ; < evenings.
Numb and weary sensation in feet, as after fatigue from standing, only while sitting.
Cold feet.
Pain in great toe, as if too tightly enveloped.

Limbs in general

Feeling of lassitude in limbs.
Tension in limbs, as if tightly wrapped.
Cramplike pains ; numbness in limbs and joints.
Spasmodic jerking and drawing pains in limbs and joints.
Contortions of limbs.
Ulcers on fingers and toes.

Rest. position. motion

Rest : formication in right temple < ; creeping pains < ; digging in jaw < ; paralytic weakness < ; restlessness and "fidgets" <.
Lies on back : thighs drawn up ; legs uncovered.
Limbs usually drawn up and spread apart ; spasms.
Sitting : numbness, constriction of head < ; painful burning in privates ; numbness in coccyx ; tremulous restlessness in legs ; numb, weary sensation in feet ; weakness ; hysteric rheumatism <.
After rising from a seat : leucorrhœa.
Standing : hysteric rheumatism <.
Bending backward : pain in back <.
Motion : numbness and constriction of head > ; pressure in forehead < ; of arms, weak feeling >.
Turning head : pain in head and nape.
Turns in all possible positions to relieve colic.
Walking : on entering house ; illusions of fantasy ; pressure in genital organs < during and after ; against wind, sudden arrest of breathing ; hysteric rheumatism >.
Going up-stairs ; pressure in genitals <.

Nerves

Weary, relaxed, prostrated.
Paralytic weakness, < at rest ; numbness, stiffness and coldness.
Weakness, especially while sitting ; feet seemed tired out ; full of tremulous restlessness.
Tremulous sensation at times through whole body.
Painful tremulousness of whole body, with throbbing in veins.
Great numbness.
Painful numb sensation as from a blow, here and there, especially on head, always in small spots.
Feeling of numbness and rigidity here and there.
Transient, cramplike drawing here and there.
Parts affected by cramplike pain are painful to pressure, as if bruised.
Neuralgic pains varied and shifting.
Uneasy, general restlessness and "fidgets" in limbs, < at rest.
Weak hysterical women sigh much ; lungs feel so weak they cannot take a full breath.
Palpitation and trembling of heart ; labor-like pains in uterine region ; lower lumbar vertebræ sensitive to pressure. θ Hysteria.
Spasmodic affections of hysterical women and children ; tetanic spasms, with wild shrieks, alternating with catalepsy ; twitches of single muscles, trembling, shivering ; < at dawn.
Spasms : from sexual erethism ; alternating with dyspnœa to suffocation ; preceded or followed by constriction of œsophagus and respiratory embarrassment ; tonic, without loss of consciousness ; face pale, sunken ; child after spell lies on its back, kicks
off clothes, and draws up knees and spreads them apart.
Spasmodic rigidity of limbs without loss of consciousness, with spasmodic yawning, followed by locking of jaws ; loss of speech ; distortion of eyes ; involuntary twitching of corners of mouth and of eyelids ; during intervals
restless sleep, in which child lies upon back, with legs flexed, knees separated and drawn towards abdomen ; constantly kicks covering off legs ; face pale, sunken ; eclampsia with anemia.
Vertigo and stupefaction, with a feeling of emptiness ; redness and turgescence of face, with spasmodic twitchings of facial muscles ; protrusion of eyes, which look glassy and react weakly to light ; tongue blue, thick, with heavy motion, so that she could hardly
be under-stood ; tonic spasms in joints of hands, elbow and ankle, with a feeling as if extremities were going to sleep ; consciousness undisturbed ; menses suppressed two months.
Spasms followed by an adynamic condition in which she would lie motionless upon back for days unable to speak, partly on account of trismus and partly on account of aphonia ; consciousness unimpaired ; this condition alternated at times with constriction of chest ;
twitching of eyelids ; eyes distorted, rolled upward, so that only whites are visible ; roaring in head like the noises of a mill ; short, dry cough ; difficult, anxious, deep respiration ; tension, pressure and stitches in both sides of chest, so that she cannot lie
upon sides ; stiffness of nape of neck and pain on turning head ; pain in abdomen ; constipation ; stool only after much exertion ; pressure in stomach after eating ; aversion to meat ; at times rigid extension of arms, fingers and feet ; paroxysms at
daybreak ; pulse soft, small.
Spasms alternate between convulsive actions and opisthotonos ; full consciousness.
Catalepsy during menstruation.
Clonic and tonic spasms, with convulsive laughter.

Sleep

Great inclination to violent, almost spasmodic yawning.
Sleeplessness from extreme nervous excitability.
Intense nervous wakefulness.
Awakes at night and has difficulty in collecting his senses.
During sleep lies on back, arms over head, thigh drawn up, legs uncovered.
Dreams : amorous, with debility, in both sexes ; of fire, wants to go, but cannot get there.

Time

Morning : ill-humor ; eructations ; pain in teeth.
Dawn : spasmodic affections.
Waking : headache commences, gradually increases, becomes sharp about noon, continues so for two or three hours and at six in evening goes off.
Forenoon : paroxysms of prosopalgia.
During day : paralyzed feeling in arms and hands.
Afternoon : cramplike pain in temple.
Evening : weeping mood < ; griping in umbilical region < ; numbness of head < ; formication in right temple < ; changing of color of face, with thirst < ; digging in right jaw < ; tingling and tenesmus in anus ; tremulous, restlessness in legs < ; chill
with trembling ; ephemeral fevers <.
Night : creeping pains < ; pains in face < ; great desire with violent erections < ; cannot collect his senses ; hysteric rheumatism >.

Temperature and weather

Open air : weeping mood > ; numbness and constriction of head > ; fluent coryza ; shaking chill, going from room.
In house : weeping mood < ; on entering illusions of fantasy ; stopped up (coryza).
In warm room : numb sensation in forehead.
Heat : > cramp pains in legs ; > irritability and chilliness.

Fever

Sensation of coldness, crawling and numbness in whole right side of face.
Internal chilliness and external coldness.
Chill in evening, with trembling and tremulous feeling through whole body.
Shaking chill when going from room into open, even warm air.
Chilliness predominates, with irritability, which ceases during heat.
Flushes of heat interrupted by chilliness.
Heat with sensation of burning in face, without any visible change of color of face.
Great heat in face.
Burning heat in face, with glowing redness.
Heat gradually increasing and in like manner decreasing.
Sweat only during sleep, ceases on waking.
Ephemeral fevers, especially evenings.
Yellow fever : intense nervous wakefulness, black, menstrual blood amounting to hemorrhage or in cases of pregnancy.

Attacks, periodicity

Paroxysms : six to eight hours, prosopalgia ; with several short remissions ; of burning pain in ovaries.
Alternate : laughing and weeping ; tetanic spasms and catalepsy ; spasms and dyspnœa.
Every fifteen minutes, then every five minutes : discharge, metrorrhagia.
For several hours after coitus : pains in ovaries and uterus.
Thirteen times in twenty-four hours : convulsions.
Two or three times a day : violent shooting from side along left mamma.
Every evening : crawling tenesmus in anus.
Eleven days : sleepless.
Every fourteen days : menses.
For three years : has not been able to rest on left side.

Locality and direction

Right : cramplike pain in temple ; formication in temple ; intermitting cramplike pain near outer margin of orbit ; pressure above orbit ; reports in ear ; coldness, crawling and numbness in side of face ; creeping pains < side ;
tearing, boring pain in side of face ; pulsating, digging through jaw ; rigor of arm ; numbness and trembling of thumb.
Left : pressive cramplike pain in temple ; neuralgic pain in malar bone ; numbness in malar bones ; numb pain in lower teeth ; pain in ovarian region ; soreness in region of ovary extending over whole side ; cannot rest on side ; dull shocks of
pressure in half of chest ; cramplike pain in chest ; paralyzed sensation in arm ; pain in knee.
From right to left : sudden constrictive shocks in temples.

Sensations

As if her senses would vanish ; as if parts of malar bones were between screws ; as if everything about her were very small ; as if she did not belong to her own family ; as if he had drunk fermented beer ; vertigo, as if torn and pulled into
threads ; forehead as if constricted ; as if anxious sweat would break out ; forehead as if screwed in ; as if a board were pressed against forehead ; as if chest were constricted ; sensation of water in forehead ; as if head were screwed together ; as
if screwed in ; as if temples were too tightly bound ; as if scalp would be contracted ; as if a heavy weight were lying upon scalp ; as if head were enlarged ; as if tongue were scalded ; as if throat were constricted ; as if palate were elongated ;
as if whole of abdomen were tightly constricted ; as if menses would come ; as if chest would be crushed by a mass of lead ; body as if growing larger and longer ; as if menses would appear ; voice sounds as if she had something in her mouth ; as if posterior
organs of speech were covered and clumsy ; as if respiration failed her ; as if nape of neck were tightly bound ; back and small of back as if broken ; numbness of coccyx as from a blow ; pain as if everything were tightly constricted in chest ; weakness in arms
as after holding a heavy weight ; arms and hands as if paralyzed ; elbow as if scraped ; right thumb as if bruised ; thighs as if too tightly wrapped ; thighs and knees as if beaten ; left knee as after a blow ; great toes as if too tightly enveloped ;
limbs as if tightly wrapped ; as if extremities were going to sleep.
Pain : behind ears, side of face, lips, forehead, crown of head ; in limbs ; in umbilical region ; in left ovarian region ; in stomach, extending into breast ; in back and small of back ; in small of back going to groins and small of back ; in left
knee ; in great toe.
Excruciating pains : in uterus.
Acute pain : in lower abdomen.
Severe pain : in umbilical region.
Sharp stitches : in rectum ; in sinciput ; in forehead ; in both sides of chest.
Shooting : in rectum ; in anus ; from side along lower portion of left mamma.
Pinching pressing down : in ovarian region or groins or in pudenda.
Pinching : in abdomen.
Violent compressive pain : in temples.
Griping : in umbilical region.
Constricting pain : in forehead.
Boring : in malar bones.
Dragging, tearing pain : in region of left ovary.
Tearing, boring pain : in right side of face.
Pulsating digging : through whole right jaw.
Spasmodic drawing jerking pains : in limbs and joints.
Pushing pain : in rectum.
Pulling pain : in groins.
Tensive drawing pain : in ovaries and uterus.
Pressing pain : in forehead ; in abdomen.
Neuralgic pain : in left malar bone.
Cramp pain : in legs ; in ears ; in nose ; at root of nose ; in malar bone ; in posterior muscles of neck.
Cramplike pain : in forehead ; in right temple ; in left temple ; near outer margin of right orbit ; in ears ; in left chest ; close to shoulder.
Cramplike drawing constriction : in head ; in temples ; in throat ; here and there.
Cramplike pressing inward : in head.
Cramplike sensation of numbness : in left malar bones.
Sudden spasmodic contractive shocks : through head.
Painful drawing : in both groins.
Creeping pains : in face.
Bearing down : in abdomen.
Numb pain : on top of vertex ; in left lower teeth.
Sore biting : on upper margin of orbit.
Sore burning : at elbow.
Burning : in face.
Burning : in pit of stomach ; in rectum ; in ovary ; pain in ovaries ; in privates.
Soreness : internal ; in region of left ovary ; in small of back.
Corrosive sensation : on nose.
Heat : in upper part of body.
Scraping : in throat.
Painful sensitiveness : in mons veneris ; of genitals ; of vulva.
Tenderness : of os uteri ; walls of vagina and vulva.
Weight : in stomach ; upon chest.
Heaviness : in genital organs.
Pressure : in stomach ; towards lower abdomen ; in rectum ; in region of mons veneris and genital organs ; in groins and back ; upon chest ; shocks of, in left half of chest ; in both sides of chest.
Wavelike benumbing pressure : above right orbit.
Contraction : of brain and scalp.
Constriction : in pit of stomach and in abdomen ; of vagina.
Tension : in limb.
Tight sensation : in abdominal muscles and thighs.
Numb feeling : in malar bones ; in forehead ; in zygomata and mastoid processes ; in temples ; in head ; in brain ; in nose ; in right side of face ; in nape, close to occiput ; in coccyx and sacrum ; in right thumb ; in little
finger ; in legs ; in feet ; here and there.
Torpid feeling : in legs.
Tingling : in anus ; from genitals up into abdomen.
Trembling sensation : through whole body ; in legs.
Weakness : in abdomen ; in chest ; in respiratory organs ; of nape of neck ; in arms ; in thighs ; in and about knee joints ; of lungs.
Weary sensation : in feet ; in limbs.
Restlessness : in legs.
General restlessness.
Paralyzed sensation : in both arms.
Stifling : beneath upper fourth of sternum.
Crawling : in right temple ; in right side of face ; on tongue ; tenesmus in anus ; in genitals and abdomen.
Formication : in right temple.
Chilliness : about head, breast and arms ; of vulva.
Coldness : in temple ; of feet ; in eyes ; in right side of face ; in mouth ; of vulva ; of mons veneris.
Itching : in anus : in uterus ; in uterine region.

Tissues

Chlorosis.
Hemorrhage ; blood flows in thick clots, fluid, or in one grumous mass, thick, black and tarry ; feeling of horror at what may happen, thoughts of death, etc. ; sensation of growing larger in every direction.
Hysteric rheumatism, < sitting or standing, > walking ; greatly aggravated at night.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : headache < ; on genitals unbearable ; groins and back painfully sensitive ; mons veneris very sensitive.
Rubbing : formication in right temple >.
Pressure : on right side of abdomen, tumor nearly painless ; pain in back < ; upon parts where nerves are easily reached produces paralyzed feeling ; lower lumbar vertebræ sensitive.

Skin

Great paleness of skin.
Sensation of soreness, tingling, smarting and itching or pricking stinging, burning, with inclination to scratch on different parts of body.
Pain as if excoriated.
Tingling, gnawing pains ; shooting.
Sore, biting and smarting.
Fine capillary network like marble.

Stage of life, constitution

Women with dark hair, thin, of a sanguine or bilious temperament, and who suffer from too frequent and too profuse menstruation, and whose sexual organs are exceedingly sensitive.
Suits hysterical and hemorrhoidal patients and, perhaps, such as suffer from gout or worms, especially those of mournful mind, or alternately sad and gay, who cry easily, are pale, easily fatigued, suffer from wandering pains, are inclined to spasms.
Girl, æt. about 18, delicate phlegmatic appearance, had a mild bilious fever, lasting ten days, since then suffering from dyspepsia, and gradually the neuralgic affection showed itself ; nervous headaches.
Girl, æt. 19, weak, four years ago had an eruption on head, and ague, suffering three years ; mental affection.
Miss P., æt. 19, menses set in regularly when 17 ; dysmenorrhœa.
Girl, æt. 19, perfectly developed, worked four years in a match factory, but enjoyed her usual good health, menses usually regular, suppressed last two months ; spasms.
Woman, æt. 20, suffering two years, particularly after an attack of typhoid fever ; prosopalgia.
Man, æt. 20, manufacturing lead paint ; colic.
Lady, æt. 20, suffering since twelve years old ; leucorrhœa and ovaritis.
Girl, æt. 20, suffering ten months ; eclampsia.
Emily N., æt. 23 ; neuralgia and menorrhagia.
Girl, æt. 25, irritable and very sensitive, hysterical ; erotomania.
Woman, æt. 27, sanguine phlegmatic temperament, has aborted three times, now ten weeks pregnant ; threatened abortion.
Primipara, æt. 27 ; convulsions.
Woman, æt. 28 ; uterine displacement.
Woman, æt. 29, married three months ; metrorrhagia.
Woman, æt. 30, menses usually very profuse ; suppression of menses and mania after catching cold.
Woman, æt. 30, eight years ago gave birth to child, since then aborted six times, has suffered for years from leucorrhœa, which yielded a few months ago to Calc. and Sulph. ; uterine affection.
Woman, æt. 32, married twelve years, under old school treatment was cured of hypertrophy and ulceration of cervix ; suspected ovarian disease and sterility.
Woman, æt. 33, mother of three children, youngest eight years old, has had several miscarriages, complaining for two or three months, health otherwise good ; paralyzed sensation in arms.
Woman, æt. 35, dark hair, well built, pale face, has passed through many labors, and later has had several abortions, last one being accompanied by profuse hemorrhage, since then suffering ; metrorrhagia.
Woman, æt. 38, cachectic appearance, suffering two years ; dysmenorrhœa.
Woman, æt. 40 ; melancholia.
Woman, æt. 40, very phlegmatic temperament and without the least sexual inclination, mother of several children, usually enjoying very good health ; sudden sexual excitement.
Lady, æt. 40, thin, in former years frequently treated for nervous and uterine symptoms of various sorts and always successfully ; menstrual disturbance.
Woman æt. 40, married twenty years, childless ; uterine spasms.
Woman, æt. 40, menses regular ; metrorrhagia.
Woman, æt. 60, single, daughter of wealthy parents, grew up with hysteria, atony of uterine system and torpor of vegetative sphere, was always cold and suffered from pains and nervous attacks, when 32 became enceinte, suffering twelve years ; melancholia.
Mrs. Z., about 60, thin ; swellings of liver and spleen and pain in rectum.
Primipara, labor protracted and delivery accomplished with forceps, considerable post-partum hemorrhage ; excessive lochial discharge.
Two childless married women ; prosopalgia.

Relations

Antidoted by : Pulsat., Spir. nitr. dulc.
It antidotes : lead-poisoning.
Compatible : Bell., Ignat., Lycop., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia, Veratr.
Compare : Aurum, Asaf., Bellad., Crocus, Ignat., Lycop., Plumb., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sabad., Sepia, Sulphur.

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 Platinum proving represents the woman's mind perverted.

It is especially suited to hysterical women such as have undergone fright, prolonged excitement, or from disappointment, shock, or prolonged hemorrhages. She becomes arrogant and haughty.

Mind

One of the most striking characteristics of this drug is pride and over-estimate of one’s self. She imagines that she is of a high born family and that her friends and relatives are of lowly origin and looks down upon them.

Her acquaintances are inferior to herself. A strange thing about this remedy is that this imagination extends to the body. She imagines that her body is large and that the bodies of other people are smaller in comparison with her own. She is in a contemptuous mood, anxious and serious over matters that. are not serious, irritable about trifling things, is moody and sulky over slight vexations, anxious, weeping. Palpitation, trembling in all limbs during every little excitement, fears death and loathes life.

Fear is a very prominent feature in this remedy. Fears that something will happen, fears that her absent husband will never return to her, though he comes back regularly. Restless disposition, excitable, walking, moving about, and weeping.

The mental symptoms alternate with the physical symptoms. Strange illusions of fancy. Imagines than she do, not belong to this race and becomes insane over religious matters, sits in the corner and broods and says nothing. Takes on insanity; becomes a sexual pervert, utters unchaste speech and trembles.

Spasms will come on from vexation or anger. Whistles, sings, and dances. Talks constantly about fanciful things. She may go into melancholy or into mania. Any disturbance of her pride will bring on her symptoms.

Sexual excitement will bring on her symptoms. The usual mental symptoms are intermingled with trembling of the limbs, sexual excitement, and numbness of various parts of the body and limbs. Compressing sensations, pressing pains, pressure of the limbs as if bandaged or constricted, tension of the skin of the limbs as if bandaged.

Head: These characteristic features prevail throughout the various regions of the body and modify many particulars.

Sensation of numbness of the scalp with, pressing pain in the head, boring, compression of the head. Tension of the scalp, cramplike constrictions of the scalp gradually increasing to violence, cramplike pains gradually increasing to violence.

Squeezing sensation in the head. These pains may be in the temple, in the top of the head, or in the forehead. Again, there is crawling, creeping, numbness of the scalp. Sudden shocks in the head. There is no symptom in the head more persistent than numbness of the scalp, it prevails throughout all sensations and pains.

All headaches gradually increase until they are severe. Violent neuralgia in the head with sensitiveness in hysterical persons. Sometimes numbness in the head is described as if the brain were numb. Headaches come on from chagrin, from fear, from vexation, from hemorrhages, and from sexual excitement.

Eyes

Sparks before the eyes, spasms of the lids, and objects appear smaller than they really are.

Sensation of coldness in the eyes, spasms, spasmodic trembling and twitching of the muscles of the eyes.

Ears

Cramping pain in the ears, coldness in the ears, numbness of the external ears.

The numbness of the ears extends to the face, nose and scalp. Platinum is a hemorrhagic remedy. Bleeding from various parts of the body and mucous membranes. The hemorrhages wherever observed are black clots with fluid. On examining the symptoms of the nose hemorrhage is observed. Black, coagulated blood from the nose. Oversensitive to smell. Violent crampy pains at the root of the nose with redness of the face.

Face

Sensation of coldness of the face, numbness of the face, cramping, pressing pains in the face. Neuralgia of the face. Coldness, crawling, numbness of the face. Numbness of the malar bone. Tearing boring pain in the face.

Pulsating and digging through the lower jaw, especially the right side, together with numbness and coldness. The pains come gradually and go gradually. Sensation as if the tongue were scalded, crawling in the tongue.

Stomach and abdomen

Loss of appetite on account of the depressed mood or at other times a ravenous appetite; hasty eating, eats everything around her.

Much flatulence, fermentation in the stomach. Jerking of the muscles of the stomach and abdomen. Sensation as if the whole abdomen were tightly constricted or bandaged. Tension of the skin of the abdomen. Violent, cramping pains in the abdomen, drawing pains in the navel as if by a string, which causes a sensation of retraction of the abdomen. Pressing, bearing down pains in the abdomen.

These pains are much like Plumbum and Platinum, has been used as an antidote to Plumbum. Pressing, drawing pains from incarcerated flatus. The torpor of the intestinal canal is much like that which is found in Plumbum. Inveterate constipation, much flatus.

The stool is half digested and papescent or hard as if burnt, or may be scanty and very difficult, or may be glutinous and adherent to the anus like soft clay. Frequent urging to stool and inability to strain at stool, inveterate constipation and unsuccessful urging to stool.

Pain in the abdomen after lead poisoning and colic after lead poisoning. Constipation in travelers. Prolonged efforts to pass a stool. Aching pains, burning pains and protrusion of hemorrhoids during stool. Burning in the rectum during stool. Itching, tickling, and tenesmus of the anus, especially in the evening.

Genitalia

Extreme sexual erethism is found in both male and female.

In the male there is great sexual erethism driving to secret vice. It has cured epilepsy arising from onanism. Sexual erethism is one of the most prominent features of Platinum, in women. Unbearable sexual excitement and voluptuous crawling in the genitals.

Such extreme sensitiveness of the external genitals that it is impossible for the woman to wear a napkin during menstruation. Such extreme sensitiveness of the vagina that it is impossible for the physician to make an examination with the index finger. It is not an inflammation but a hyperesthesia.

Increased sexual excitement in young girls, in hysterical girls. Violent sexual desire in married women with itching, tingling, and voluptuous sensations. Pain in the ovarian region, especially the left. It has cured sterility of long standing, especially sterility that is supposed to come from excessive sexual excitement, Burning, stitching pains in the ovaries.

Inflammation of the ovaries coming with hemorrhage of the uterus, and during the menstrual period. It has cured ovarian tumors and cystic tumors. Inflammation of the uterus, bearing down, as in prolapsus. Prolapsed uterus and dragging in the pelvis.

Polypus of the uterus and uterine hemorrhages. Copious menstrual flow. The flow is dark, even black, and clotted with much fluid blood. These nervous women constantly feel as if the menstrual flow was going to appear.

The menstrual flow comes too early, is too profuse, and then generally of short duration. The hemorrhage is somewhat like the menstrual flow in old women. The menstrual periods sometimes return every fourteen days or the menstrual flow may be entirely absent. The vulva and vagina are extremely sensitive during coition, sometimes preventing the act.

The woman suffers from albuminous leucorrhoea, mostly in the daytime without much sensation. There are many complaints of pregnancy, threatened abortion, exhausting hemorrhages, discharges of black clotted blood.

During labor the contractions are interrupted by sensitiveness of the vagina and internal parts. It is impossible for the obstetrician to make the usual examination. Cramping in the limbs during parturition or profuse hemorrhage; hysterical convulsions, puerperal convulsions.

After every mental exertion palpitation, trembling, numbness, quivering, and excitement in the limbs. Tremulous restlessness in the legs with numbness. Cold feet. Pains in the great toe as if bandaged. This sensation prevails throughout.

The limbs feel as if bandaged about the thigh or leg. The nerves are in a great state of excitement most of the time. The patient is prostrated. Paralytic weakness, which is worse during rest. Numbness, stiffness and coldness. Painful tremulousness all over the body, with throbbing in the blood vessels. Numbness of the scalp, of the feet, of the bands, of the limbs. Shifting, neuralgic pains. Spasmodic affections of hysterical women. Spasms from sexual erethism. Coldness, crawling, and numbness of the skin, especially during fever.