Prunus Spinosa prun-s.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

Nerves: Respiratory. Orbital. Bladder.

Worse

Stooping. Ascending.

General

Pains causing SHORT BREATH, shooting or pressing outward; lightning like; wandering. Neuralgia. Cramp. Nerve paralysis. Compensatory effects.

Particulars

Pains from forehead (r), to occiput. Bursting in eyeballs. Eyes feel pressed apart. Teeth feel pulled out. Cramp in bladder; he doubles up to urinate (reverse-Alu.); urine reaches glans and then goes back again. Strangury. Glans pains on urinating. Pulsating pudendum. Leucorrhœa; watery, purulent and acrid. Dropsy; cardiac; of feet. Air hunger. As of a lump below l. scapula. Heart disease. Night-sweat.

Related

Related: Laur.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Black-thorn

General

Special action on the urinary organs and head. Very valuable in certain neuralgias, anasarca, and especially œdema pedum. Ankle and foot feel sprained. Ciliary neuralgia (Spig).

Head

Pressing-asunder pain beneath skull. Shooting from right frontal bone through brain to occiput. Pain in right eyeball, as if it would burst. Piercing toothache, as if teeth were pulled out; worse, taking anything warm.

Eyes

Ciliary neuralgia. Bursting pain in right eyeball shooting like lightning through the brain to occiput. Sudden pain in left eye as if it would burst, better by lachrymation. Irido-choroiditis. Opacity of vitreous humor. Eyes feel as if bursting.

Abdomen

Ascites. Cramp-like pain in bladder region; worse, walking.

Rectum

Hard, nodular stool, with rectal pain, as if angular body were pressed inward. Burning in anus after slimy diarrhœa.

Urine

Tenesmus of bladder. Ineffectual effort to urinate. Hurriedly impelled to urinate; the urine seems to pass as far as glans, and then returns and causes pain in urethra. Neuralgic dysuria. Must press a long time before urine appears.

Respiratory

Wheezing when walking. Oppression of chest; anxious, short respiration. Angina pectoris. Furious beating of heart; worse, slightest motion.

Skin

Herpes zoster. Dropsy. Itching on tips of fingers, as if frozen.

Relationship

Compare: Lauroc; Prumus padus-Bird--cherry--(sore throat, pressure behind sternum and sticking pain in rectum); Prunus Virginiana-Wild Cherry--(heart tonic; relieves the flagging and distended ventricle; irritable heart; dilatation of right heart; cough, worse at night on lying down; weak digestion, especially in elderly people; chronic bronchitis; increases muscular tone); Pyrus-Mountain Ash--(irritation of eyes; constriction around waist; spasmodic pains in uterus, bladder, heart, cold-water sensation in stomach, coldness extends up œsophagus; neuralgic and gouty pains).

Dose

Third to sixth potency.

Text Book of Materia Medica

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

Mind and Disposition

Restlessness, which does not allow one to remain quiet in one place, walks about constantly, with dyspnœa and short breathing.

Head

Heaviness of the head, also with vertigo. Pressing in the head, as if the brain were pressed out through the skull with a plug. Stitches in the scalp.

Eyes

Pain in the right eye as if it were torn asunder. Itching in the corners of the eyes and in the edges of the lids.

Ears

Pain as if pressed out in the right ear.

Nose

Pain as from pressing asunder above the nasal bones.

Mouth and Throat

Burning of the tongue as if scalded.

Stomach and Abdomen

Sensation of repletion in the stomach ; a very mall quantity of food satisfies the appetite. Sensation of fulness in the pit of the stomach, as after a full meal, or as from overlifting, with shortness of breathing. Ascites, with loss of appetite, scanty urine, hard, knotty stool, which is difficult to pass. Incarcerated flatulency (on the bladder, with spasms, compelling one to walk stooped). Pain in the right inguinal region as if hernia would produce.

Stool and Anus

Stool hard, difficult to expel, in small pieces, with stitches in the rectum. Diarrhœa with nausea, feces consisting of mucus, with burning in the rectum as from a wound.

Urinary Organs

Tenesmus vesicæ. Strangury ; continuous urging to urinate, with burning-biting in the bladder and urethra ; when the effort is made to urinate, burning in the urethra, so that one must bend double without being able to urinate. Urgent desire to urinate ; the urine only reaches the glans penis and causes there violent pains and spasms, also with tenesmus in the rectum ; the pain in the bladder is momentarily relieved as soon as the urine descends in the urethra. Scanty secretion of urine, brown ; must always press a long time before passing any urine, and then in a feeble stream. Spasms in the bladder, disturbing the sleep at night ; burning in the sphincter vesicæ. In the, urethra burning-biting ; great soreness, so that he can not touch it.

Sexual Organs

Men. The prepuce is drawn behind the corona glandis, the penis becoming smaller. Women. Tickling, itching in the region of the ovaries, not relieved by scratching and rubbing. Menstruation too early, with violent pain in the small of the back. Metrorrhagia of thin pale blood, becoming more watery the longer it lasts. Leucorrhœa, excoriating, coloring the linen yellow.

Respiratory Organs

Breathing difficult, caused by a sensation of heaviness in the lower part of the thorax.

Back

Back and small of the back feel stiff as from overlifting. Stitches between the shoulder-blades on drawing a long breath. Pain in the small of the back when sitting.

Extremities

Upper. Pressure on the right shoulder, extending to the deltoid muscle, preventing one from raising the arm. Sensation as if sprained in the right thumb, hindering one from writing ; cannot bold the pen. Lower. Pain in the hip, worse in the forenoon, and free from it after midnight. Pain in the first joint of the big toe, as if it were pulled out. Restlessness in the legs, has to change the position continually.

Fever

Chilliness in the evening must go to bed, is inclined to stretch himself. Dry heat over the whole body, with pain in the corona glandis and redness of the prepuce ; burning on the genitals, relieved by perspiration, and ceasing when going to bed. Perspiration during sleep, only in the face.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Blackthorn. Sloe. N. O. Rosaceæ. Tincture of buds just before flowering.

Clinical

Appetite, lost . Ascites. Breast, pain in. Choroiditis. Ciliary neuralgia. Cystitis. Dropsy. Dysuria; flatulent. Earache. Eyes; choroiditis . Glaucoma. Heart, affections of. Hernia. Herpes zoster . Leucorrhœa. Menorrhagia. Metrorrhagia. Neuralgia. Sprains. Strangury. Stricture. Toothache. Vitreous, opacities of.

Characteristics

Prun. spi . was proved by Wahle. The symptoms resemble those of Pru. pd . in general, but some very strongly characterised ones were produced. The pains were pressive and out -pressive, and out-shooting. These pains are felt in skull, eye, root of nose, and ears; the teeth feel raised out of their sockets. Shooting from within out, from before backward. These pains occurring in and around the eye have led to its successful use in glaucoma, ciliary neuralgia, choroido-retinitis, irido-choroiditis, irido-cyclitis. Spraining pains and pains which take away the breath. A remarkable symptom is: "Breath always seems to remain sticking in pit of stomach." This symptom, with "pain as if sprained in left ankle," led Lippe to make a remarkable cure in this case: A young lady, 16, jumped from a carriage whilst the horse was running away and sprained her ankle. Left ankle and foot much swollen. As swelling abated, breathing became rapid; great oppression with constantly recurring desire to take a long breath; felt as if air inhaled did not reach pit of stomach , and till she could force air so far down had to yawn and try to take a deep inspiration. ─ The tightness, stitches, and sticking pains in chest have marked Prun. spi . as a remedy in many cases of neuralgic pains with or following herpes zoster. The urinary symptoms are perhaps the most peculiar of all. Pressure of abdominal flatulence on the bladder is not an uncommon symptom, and is met by Prun. spi .: "Flatulence presses on bladder and = cramps in bladder so that he is obliged to double up." Strangury of the most painful description was produced, and this symptom, which is quite characteristic: Hurriedly impelled to pass urine, which, however, seems to pass forward into glans penis and then return and cause most violent pain in urethra. Menses are too early; too profuse; last too long, and are thin and watery. There is leucorrhœa, which weakens and stains yellow. The right side is much more affected than the left. Peculiar sensations are: As if a sharp corner pressing against top of head. Headache as if from sun. As if skull would be pressed outward by a sharp plug. As if inner portion of eye would be torn out. Eyeball as if crushed, or pressed asunder. As if tooth would be torn out. As if tongue had been burned. As if hernia would protrude. Burning as from a wound in rectum; as from salt in a wound in anus. Sighing as if climbing a steep mountain. As. if small of back had been injured. As if right thumb sprained; as if left ankle sprained; as if first joint of big toe pulled out. C. M. Boger gives this confirmation of Prun. spi . ( Med. Couns ., xvi. 264): Man, 60, with enlarged prostate, had frequent urging to urinate, day and night. Shooting pains in neck of bladder unless desire to urinate is at once gratified. Urination delayed if any great amount has accumulated. Spasmodic tenesmus of bladder and rectum at close of urination, with pains in glans. Pulsation in glans from jar of walking. Prun. spi . 1m. (Fincke) removed the symptoms. The symptoms are: < By touch and pressure. Biting teeth together > toothache. > From rest; from doubling up. < Motion; from jarring; must walk carefully < Night. < From warm food (toothache).

Relations

Compare: Heart, Cratæg., Lauro., Pru. p. Eyes, Bell. Burning tongue, Sang., Polyg. Stool like dog's, Pho. Leucorrhœa staining yellow, Agn. c., Carb. a., Chel., Kre., Nux, Sep., Thu., Nit. ac.

Causation

Sun. Sprains. Over-lifting.

Mind

Sadness, indifference, moroseness, and ill-humour. ─ Restlessness, which does not allow one to remain in one place, walks about constantly, with dyspnœa and short breathing.

Head

Reeled and staggered back and forth. ─ Heaviness in head, and vertigo. ─ Pressure in head, principally in forehead, occiput, and temples. ─ Pressive pain beneath skull, as if skull would be pressed through with a plug. ─ Pressing asunder headache so violent that he almost lost his reason. ─ Sharp pains beginning in r. forehead shooting like lightning through brain and coming out at occiput. ─ Painful jerks in forehead shooting back. ─ Violent nervous pains in head, with loss of ideas and of consciousness. ─ Pressure in head mostly manifests itself from without inwards. ─ Pressive pain from within out beneath upper part of r, temporal bone; from thence to frontal bone < by external pressure. ─ Twinging pain: in r. temporal bone to ear, causing earache; extending outward. ─ Pressive pain r. vertex as if sharp corner pressing against it. ─ Jerking sticking back part l. frontal bone. ─ Painful jerking through r. hemisphere of brain, on motion. ─ Nervous out-pressing pain in occiput and occipital bone (l.). ─ Headache, as from heat of sun. ─ Stitches in scalp.

Eyes

Pains in the eyes, as if the balls were torn out. ─ Glaucoma. ─ Ciliary neuralgia; pain in eyeball as if crushed or pressed asunder; sharp shooting pain extending through eye back into brain, or above eye extending into, around it, or over corresponding side of head; pain commences behind ear and shoots forward to eye, < motion, > rest; pains occasionally periodic, may be < at night. ─ Pain in r. eye as if it were torn asunder; as if inner portion would be torn out. ─ Itching in corners of eyes and in edges of lids.

Ears

Binding sensations in ears. ─ Pressing-asunder pain in r. ear, like earache.

Nose

Frequent sneezing. ─ Pressing-asunder pains about nasal bones.

Face

Itching sticking in upper part of malar bone.

Teeth

Violent nervous or wrenching pains in teeth, or else a sensation as if teeth were raised up, and pulled out. ─ Pricking pains in teeth. ─ Toothache > biting teeth together.

Mouth

Shootings, and burning pain, in tongue. ─ Tongue loaded with whitish mucus. ─ Itching crawling in tip of tongue and front teeth. ─ Mucous, clammy, or bitter taste in mouth.

Throat

Rawness, scraping, crawling in throat, causing hacking cough.

Stomach

When eating at times seized with hunger, but a very small quantity of food satisfies the appetite. ─ Constant nausea, with dislike to all food, and diarrhœa. ─ Fulness, distension, and oppression in pit of stomach, with shortness of breath (as after a full meal, or from over-lifting).

Abdomen

Aching pains in hepatic region. ─ Violent spasmodic colic, which hinders lying on back or sides, also walking, except very slowly; > on bending thorax forwards. ─ Pressive colic in epigastrium, or in r. side of abdomen, even at night. ─ Colic as from eating much fruit and drinking much water after. ─ Shootings in abdomen, which interrupt respiration. ─ Dropsical swelling of abdomen, with loss of appetite, scanty urine, hard and knotty fæces. ─ Ascites, with loss of appetite, scanty urine, hard, knotty stool, which is difficult to pass. ─ Incarcerated flatulency pressing on bladder, causing cramps in it, and compelling one to walk stooped. ─ Incarceration of flatus, with spasmodic colic, and cramps in bladder. ─ Shootings in r. inguinal region, and pressure, as if a hernia were about to protrude. ─ Swashing like a bladder full of liquid in fold in r. lower abdomen. ─ Very painful stitches r. groin, > by pressure with hands.

Stool and Anus

Difficult, hard, and knotty fæces. ─ Diarrhœa; with colic, and copious evacuation of fæcal matter; fæces consisting of mucus, with burning in rectum as from a wound. ─ Much offensive water involuntarily discharged from rectum at night by one suffering from ascites; whereupon the swelling in r. abdomen steadily decreased, and disappeared in eight days. ─ Hard stool, intermitting, looking like excrement of dogs, in small lumps, with stitches in rectum extorting cries. ─ Cramp-like bubbling in rectum while sitting. ─ Pressive pain as if an angular body were pressed inward on r. side of rectum an inch above anus. ─ Cramp-like pains in rectum. ─ Discharge of blood from anus after evacuation.

Urinary Organs

Cramps in bladder, also at night disturbing the sleep. ─ Tenesmus of bladder, every half-hour for eight hours. ─ Burning in sphincter vesicæ. ─ Pain as from suppuration or ulceration; < taking hold of urethra. ─ Scanty and brown urine. ─ Stream of urine like a thread, with pressure to stool. ─ Stream forked. ─ Hot, corrosive urine. ─ Bright yellow urine, with whitish, and sometimes a sky-blue coloured sediment. ─ Strangury. ─ Continuous urging to urinate, with burning-biting in bladder and urethra; when the effort is made to urinate, burning in urethra, so that one must bend double without being able to urinate. ─ Urgent desire to urinate; the urine only reaches glans penis and causes there violent pains and spasms, also with tenesmus in rectum; the pain in bladder is momentarily > as soon as the urine descends in the urethra. ─ Urine reaches glans penis and then returns. ─ Spasmodic retention of urine. ─ Tenesmus of bladder. ─ Violent burning pains in urethra when endeavouring to urinate. ─ Pain in urethra, as from excoriation, esp. when it is touched.

Male Sexual Organs

Flaccidity of penis, and retraction of prepuce. ─ Agreeable itching in the scrotum immediately > by scratching.

Female Sexual Organs

Discharge of a watery and pale blond from uterus. ─ Tickling, itching in region of ovaries, not > by scratching and rubbing. ─ Metrorrhagia daily for eight to ten weeks, becoming more and more watery the longer it lasted. ─ Menses watery and thin. ─ Catamenia too early, and too copious, with sacral pains. ─ Corrosive leucorrhœa, staining yellow.

Respiratory Organs

Scraping and roughness in throat, with inclination to cough. ─ Cough excited by a tickling as with a feather, or crawling in larynx and upper part of trachea; cough renewed by holding the breath. ─ Wheezing cough. ─ Breathing difficult, caused by a sensation of heaviness in lower part of thorax. ─ Oppressed, short, difficult, anxious, and panting respiration. ─ Respiration is continually arrested at pit of stomach.

Chest

Pain in chest, when speaking, with weak voice. ─ Sensation of heaviness and oppression in chest. ─ Pains under sternum, and oppression, with fulness in scrobiculus, and distension of abdomen. ─ Stitching pains in fleshy parts of l. breast on deep inspiration, extends to every side and even above l. shoulder; while walking and sitting.

Heart

Furious beating, even when at rest, and great danger of suffocation from slightest motion; visible pulsation of carotids; face bloated and purple; lips purple; menses suppressed. ─ Knocking at heart with laboured breathing. ─ Even very moderate motion < beats of heart fearfully. ─ Far advanced œdema of feet in girl, 14, with hypertrophy of heart.

Neck and Back

Pressive pain in nape which involves whole occiput on stooping. ─ All parts of back and small of back seem stiff as if he had been injured. ─ Stitches between shoulder-blades on drawing a long breath. ─ Pain in small of back when sitting. ─ (Pain in small of back as if all strength had gone. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Stitch on r. loin to navel, taking away breath; < lying on back. ─ Pain, as from ulceration in loins. ─ Stiffness in back and loins, as if caused by a strain.

Upper Limbs

Pressure on r. shoulder, extending to deltoid muscle, preventing one from raising arm. ─ Soreness of axillary glands. ─ Tension, wrenching pains, and paralytic sensation in various parts of arms and hands. ─ Paralytic pains in l. elbow-joint extending to wrist. ─ R. wrist: wrenching pain during rest; pain as if bruise would form. ─ Sensation as if sprained in r. thumb, hindering one from writing; cannot hold the pen. ─ Itching in fingers, as from chilblains.

Lower Limbs

Pains in hips at night, before midnight. ─ Pain in hip, < forenoon, and free from it after midnight. ─ Restlessness in legs, has to change the position continually. ─ Wrenching pains in knees and feet. ─ Burning sensation in legs. ─ Pain as from sprain l. ankle. ─ Pain in first joint of big toe, as if it were pulled out.

Generalities

Shootings in muscles. ─ Trembling in whole body. ─ Uneasiness in body, with shortness of breath and oppression of chest.

Sleep

Sleep after a meal. ─ Retarded sleep and sleeplessness at night. ─ Waking too early. ─ Lassitude in morning, as after unrefreshing sleep. ─ Sleep full of dreams and phantasies. ─ Dreams of furunculi; or of salt things.

Fever

Shivering, esp. in evening. ─ Dry heat over the whole body, esp. in genital organs. ─ Sweat on face only, during sleep.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

General

Sloe ; Blackthorn. Rosaceæ.
The Blackthorn (Schwarzdorn) is a native of Europe, but is found in New England and southward to Pennsylvania.
The tincture is prepared from the fresh flower buds.
Introduced by Wahle, Archiv. für Hom., 14, 3, 169 ; and Kretschmar, Allg. Hom. Zeit., vol. 1, p. 124.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Glaucoma , J. A. I. H., 1883-1886 ; Chorio-retinitis , Choroiditis, O'Connor, Norton, Norton's Ophth. Therap., p. 146 ; Affection of heart , Kurtz, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 449 ; Sprained ankle and respiratory difficulty , Lippe, N. E. M. G., vol. 10, p. 456 ; Dropsy , Hartmann, Müller, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 354.

Inner head

Sharp pain beginning in right side of forehead shooting like lightning through brain and coming out at occiput.
Painful jerks in forehead shooting backward.
Pain pressing from within outward, extending from beneath right temporal bone to frontal bone, < from external pressure.
Twinging pain in right temporal bone extending into ear and causing a kind of earache.
Pressive pain in right side of vertex as if a sharp corner were pressing against it.
Jerking-sticking pain at posterior portion of parietal bone.
Painful jerking thrust through right hemisphere of brain on motion.
Pressing asunder headache, so violent that he almost lost his reason.
Pressive pain beneath skull as if skull would be pressed outward by a sharp plug.

Sight and eyes

Pain in right eyeball, as if inner portion of eye would be torn out.
Ciliary neuralgia : pain in eyeball as if crushed, or pain as if pressed asunder ; sharp shooting pain extending through eye back into brain, or above eye extending into and around it or over corresponding side of head ; pain commences behind ear and shoots forward to eye ; < from motion ; > in rest ; pains occasionally periodic in character and may be < at night.
Chorio-retinitis in myopic patients with sclerectasia posterior and fluidity of vitreous, with floating opacities in it (hemorrhagic).
Irido-choroiditis, no fluidity of vitreous and no floating opacities.
Irido-cyclitis with anterior synechiæ.
An old lady, æt. 76, had paralysis of right side, and cornea nearly opaque, with excessive congestion of superficial and deep vessels of conjunctiva and sclerotic.
Choroiditis, either with or without retinal complication.
Opacities and haziness of vitreous during course of choroidal troubles.
Glaucoma ; pain severe, crushing in eye as if pressed asunder, or sharp shooting through eye and corresponding side of head ; aqueous and vitreous humor hazy ; fundus hyperemic.

Hearing and ears

Pressing-asunder pain in right ear like earache.

Smell and nose

Pain as from pressing asunder above nasal bones.

Teeth and gums

Wrenching pain in several back teeth whenever anything warm is taken into mouth.
Pain in last left lower back tooth as if tooth would be torn out.
Very piercing nervous pain in left upper molar.
Fine, sticking pains in various teeth.
Toothache as if tooth would be raised ; pain also shoots from one tooth to another.

Taste, speech, tongue

Burning on tongue as if she had burned it.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Fulness and distension in pit of stomach.
Sensation of fulness in pit of stomach, as after a full meal or as from overlifting, with shortness of breathing.
Sensation of repletion in stomach ; a very small quantity of food satisfies.

Abdomen and loins

Flatulence presses upon bladder and causes cramps in bladder, so that he is obliged to completely double up.
Obliged to walk very carefully and softly on account of cramps in abdomen, so that abdomen should not be shaken, otherwise urinary troubles were greatly aggravated.
Pain in right inguinal region as if hernia would protrude.
Ascites ; swelling of abdomen ; loss of appetite ; scanty micturition ; hard, nodular stool, discharged with pain in rectum.

Stools and rectum

Diarrhœa with nausea, feces consisting of mucus, with burning in rectum as from a wound.
Hard stool, intermitting, looking like excrements of dogs, in small lumps with stitches in rectum, extorting cries.
Pressive, cramplike pain, as if an angular body were pressed inward, on right side of rectum an inch above anus.
Violent burning in anus, as from salt in a wound after a slimy, diarrhœa-like stool.

Urinary organs

Tenesmus of bladder ; every other quarter of an hour for eight hours.
Spasms in bladder disturbing sleep at night ; burning in sphincter vesical.
Efforts to pass urine torment him for a whole hour, with violent burning-biting pains in bladder and urethra.
Strangury ; continuous urging to urinate, with burning-biting in bladder and urethra ; when effort is made to urinate, burning in urethra, so that one must bend double without being able to urinate.
Very urgent desire to urinate, if not attended to immediately causes severe sharp, crampy pains in bladder.
Urgent desire to urinate ; the urine only reaches glans penis and causes there violent pain and spasms, also with tenesmus in rectum ; pain in bladder momentarily > as soon as urine descends into urethra.
Is hurriedly impelled to pass urine which, however, seems to pass forward into glans penis, and then seems to return and cause most violent pain in urethra.
Dared not take hold urethra on account on pain, as from suppuration of ulceration.
As urine passes he is momentarily relieved of pains, yet there remains a sticking in glans penis, which causes a most frightful spasm of urethra (ischuria urethralis) with tenesmus recti.
Must press a long time before urine appears.
Scanty secretion of urine, brown ; must always press a long time before passing any urine, and then in a feeble stream.

Male sexual organs

The prepuce is drawn behind the corona glandis, the penis becoming smaller.
Burning biting in urethra ; great soreness so that he cannot touch it.

Female sexual organs

Tickling, itching in region of ovaries not > by scratching and rubbing.
Menstruation too early, with violent pain in small of back.
Metrorrhagia of thin, pale blood, becoming very watery the longer it lasts.
Leucorrhœa excoriating, coloring linen yellow.

Respiration

Anxious, short respiration ; tight and difficult, with anxiety about heart.
Shortness of breath, while walking ; sighing, as if he were climbing a high and steep mountain.
Breathing difficult, caused by a sensation of heaviness in lower part of thorax.
Left ankle and foot much swollen after being sprained ; as swelling and pain abated new symptoms developed ; breathing became rapid ; great oppression of chest with constantly recurring desire to take a long breath ; felt as if air she inhaled did not reach pit of stomach, and till she could force air so far down had to yawn and try to take a deep inspiration.

Inner chest and lungs

Heaviness and oppression of chest.
Heavy and anxious sensation in lower portion of chest, frequently compelling him to take a deep breath.
Sensation of heaviness in left chest, frequently obliging him to take a deep breath.
Tightness in upper part of left chest.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Furious beating of heart, even when at rest, and great danger of suffocation from slightest motion ; visible pulsation of carotids ; face bloated and purple ; lips purple ; menses suppressed.
Knocking at heart with labored breathing.
Even from a very moderate motion beats of heart are fearfully aggravated.
Far advanced œdema of feet in a girl æt. 14, dependent on hypertrophy of heart.

Neck and back

Stitches between shoulder blades on drawing a long breath.
All parts of back and small of back seem stiff, as if he had been injured, or from overlifting.
Pains in small of back, while sitting.

Upper limbs

Pressure on right shoulder extending to deltoid muscle, preventing one from raising arm.
Sensation as if sprained in right thumb, hindering writing ; cannot hold pen.

Lower limbs

Pain in hip, < in forenoon ; free from it after midnight.
Restlessness in legs, must change position continually.
Pain as from a sprain in left ankle.
Pain in first joint of big toe, as if it were pulled out.

Rest. position. motion

Rest : ciliary neuralgia >.
Sitting : pain in small of back.
Must double up : cramps in bladder ; burning in urethra.
Is inclined to stretch.
Cannot hold pen : pain in thumb.
Cannot raise arm : pressure on right shoulder.
Must change position continually : restlessness in legs.
Motion : painful thrust through brain ; neuralgia in eyes <.
Must walk very carefully : cramps in bladder.

Time

Forenoon : pain in hip.
Evening : chilliness.
Night : pain in eyes < ; spasms in bladder, disturbing sleep.
After midnight : free from pain in hip.

Temperature and weather

Warm food : causes pain in back teeth.

Fever

Chilliness in evening, must go to bed, is inclined to stretch.
Dry heat over whole body, with pain in corona glandis and redness of prepuce ; burning on genitals, > from perspiration and ceasing when going to bed.
Perspiration during sleep, only in face.

Attacks, periodicity

Periodic : pains in eyes.
Every other quarter of an hour for eight hours : tenesmus of bladder.
For whole hour : efforts to pass urine.

Locality and direction

Right : pain beginning in side of forehead ; pain from beneath temporal bone ; pain in right side of top of head ; painful thrust through hemisphere of brain ; pain in eyeball ; paralysis of side ; pain in ear ; pain in inguinal hernia ; pain on side of rectum an inch above anus ; pressure on shoulder ; sensation as if sprained in thumb.
Left : pain in last lower back tooth ; piercing pain in upper molar ; pain as from a sprained ankle.
From within outward : pain from beneath temporal bone to frontal bone.
Backward : pain in forehead.

Sensations

As if a sharp corner were pressing against top of head ; as if skull would be pressed outward by a sharp plug ; as if inner portion of eye would be torn out ; eye-ball as if crushed, or as if pressed asunder ; as if tooth would be torn out ; as if tooth would be raised ; as if tongue had been burned ; as if hernia would protrude ; burning as from a wound in rectum ; as if an angular body were being pressed inward in rectum ; as from salt in a wound in anus ; sighing as if he were climbing a high, steep mountain ; as if air she inhaled did not reach pit of stomach ; as if small of back had been injured ; as if right thumb were sprained ; as if ankle were sprained ; as if first joint of big toe were pulled out.
Pain : in right eyeball ; in last left lower back tooth ; in right inguinal region ; in rectum ; in small of back ; in hip ; in l. ankle ; in joint of big toe ; in corona glandis.
Sharp pain : from right side of forehead through brain and coming out at occiput.
Violent pain : in glans penis ; in urethra ; in small of back.
Sharp shooting pain : through eye back into brain ; behind ear forward to eye ; from one tooth to another Severe sharp crampy pains : in bladder.
Piercing nervous pain : in left upper molar.
Violent burning biting pains : in bladder ; in urethra.
Stitches in rectum : between shoulder blades.
Jerking sticking pain : at posterior portion of parietal bone.
Painful jerking thrust : through right hemisphere of brain.
Twinging pain : in right temporal bone into ear.
Pressing asunder pain : in head ; in right ear ; above nasal bone.
Pressing pain : from beneath right temporal bone ; in right side of top of head ; beneath skull ; on right side of rectum ; on r. shoulder.
Fine sticking pain : in various teeth ; in glans penis.
Cramps : in bladder ; in abdomen.
Burning : on tongue ; in rectum ; in anus ; in sphincter vesica ; in urethra ; on genitals.
Heat over whole body.
Soreness : in urethra.
Painful jerks : in forehead.
Restlessness : in legs.
Tightness : in upper part of left chest.
Heaviness : in lower part of thorax ; of chest.
Fulness : in pit of stomach.
Distension : in pit of stomach.
Oppression : of chest.
Tickling : in region of ovaries.
Itching : in region of ovaries.

Tissues

Ciliary neuralgia.
Dropsy caused by defective heart ; abdominal dropsy ; anasarca after any debilitating, chronic diseases, and particularly in those connected with cachectic affections.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : painful from soreness in urethra.
Pressure : pain in head <.
Scratching or rubbing does not > itching in ovaries.

Stage of life, constitution

Girl, æt. 14 ; hypertrophy of heart and dropsy.
Young lady, æt. 16, after jumping from a carriage while horse was running away ; sprained ankle.
Woman, æt. 32, single, suffering six months ; affection of heart.
Woman, æt. 65 ; dropsy.
Woman, has had much trouble and sorrow ; affection of heart.

Relations

Compare : Laurocerasus .