Sanguinaria Canadensis sang.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

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Region

RIGHT SIDE: Head. LIVER. Chest. Deltoid. VASO-MOTORS. Capillaries. Mucous membranes. Stomach.

Worse

Periodically: WITH SUN. Weekly. Night. Climaxis. Odors. Jar. Light. Raising arms. Looking up.

Better

SLEEP. Lying on back. Vomiting. Cool air. Passing flatus.

General

Redness; abdominal; tongue, etc. BURNING HEAT AND EBULLITIONS. Dry mucous membranes. Burnt feeling; tongue. Burning; in throat; under sternum; spot or stitches in chest; palms and soles, etc. General pulsation. Congestion; to head, abdomen, chest, etc. Symptoms ascend, or end in bilious vomiting. Migraine. Internal rawness. Acrid, blood-streaked or foul discharges. Lies on back with head elevated.

Particulars

Irritable and bilious. Grumbling. Borrows trouble. Pain over r. eye or ASCENDS FROM OCCIPUT TO OVER R. EYE, > free urination. Sun pains. Swelled temporal veins. Pain at root of nose. Coryza; stopped, then diarrhœa. Sensitive to odors. Red, burning cheeks. Hectic spot. Full and tender behind angle of jaw. Anterior tongue looks red, like raw beef. Palate feels scalded. Sorethroat (r); pains to ear and chest. Craves spices. Averse to butter. Nausea, < sneezing or blowing nose, > eating. Tension in epigastrium. Stomach pains to r. shoulder. Bilious or gushing stools. Acrid leucorrhœa. Larynx full and dry; in singers. Coughs; raises foul air, tough, bloody plugs or purulent sputum, or passes flatus; dry, tickling - behind sternum, in evening. Pneumonia. Phthisis. Itching axillæ, < before menses. Cutting, stiff r. deltoid, < raising or turning arm. Omodynia; < night. Wrinkled palms. Dry skin; of jaundice. Polypi. Pain in bones near surface. Flushes of heat, rising into face and head; with headache. Burning, scanty sweat. General pulsation. Heat of palms and soles, < covers.

Related

Complementary: Ant-t. Pho.

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

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Keynote

The periodical sick headache; begins in morning, increases during the day, lasts until evening; head feels as if it would burst, or as if eyes would be pressed out; relieved by sleep. American sick headache, > by perfect quiet in a dark room ("tired headache" from over mental or physical exertion, epigea; sick headache < during rest > by rubbing, pressure, motion, Indigo). Headache begins in occiput, spreads upwards and settles over right eye (Sil., - over or in left orbit, Spig.). Headaches, return at the climacteric; every seventh day (Sabad., Sil., Sulph. - eight day, Iris). Neuralgia of face > by kneeling down and pressing the head firmly against the floor; pain extends in all directions from the upper jaw. Circumscribed red cheeks in afternoon; burning in ears; in bronchitis, pneumonia, phthisis. Rheumatic pain in the right arm and shoulder (left, Fer.); cannot raise the arm, < at night. Pains in places where the bones are least covered, as tibia, backs of hands, etc (Rhus ven.). Burning in pharynx and oesophagus. Laryngeal or nasal polypi (Sang. n., Psor., Tuec.). Climacteric ailments: flushes of heat and leucorrhoea; burning of palms and soles; compelled to throw off bedclothes; painful enlargement of breasts; when Lachesis and Sulphur fail to relieve. Asthma after the "rose cold," < from odors. Cough: dry, waking him at night and not ceasing until he sits up in bed and passes flatus; circumscribed red cheeks; night sweats; diarrhoea. Severe cough after whooping-cough; the cough returns every time patient takes cold. Eruption on face of young women, especially during scanty menses (Bellis, Cal., Eug. j., Psor.).

Relations

Compare: Bell., Iris, Mellil., in sick headache; Lach., Sulph., Ver. v., in chronic bronchitis or latent pneumonia. After Bell. fails in scarlatina. As a dynamic remedy for the narcosis of Opium.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

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General

We find this very useful where there is a pain rising from the back of the neck over the top of the head, running down into the forehead; this symptom may occur alone, or in connection with some other trouble. Headache begins in the morning, gets worse during the day, and lasts until evening. Comes every seventh day (Sabad., Silic., Sulphur). This remedy is also often useful for troubles occurring in females at the climacteric period of life--such as flashes of heat, etc. Rheumatism of right shoulder.

Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica

J. W. Hutchison · Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica · rewritten from Hering's and other materia medicas

Red line symptom

Sick headache occurring periodically, with chilliness and flushes of heat, the headache begins in occiput, spreads upward and settles over the right eye. Circumscribed redness of one or both cheeks. Dry, hacking cough, caused by tickling in the throat pit, with a crawling sensation. extending down beneath the sternum.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Blood Root (SANGUINARIA)

General

Is a right-sided remedy pre-eminently, and affects chiefly the mucous membranes, especially of the respiratory tract. It has marked vaso-motor disturbances, as seen in the circumscribed redness of the cheeks, flashes of heat, determination of blood to head and chest, distention of temporal veins, burning in palms and soles, and has been found very applicable to climacteric disorders. Burning sensations, like from hot water. Influenzal coughs. Phthisis. Sudden stopping of catarrh of respiratory tract followed by diarrhœa. Burning in various parts is characteristic.

Head

Worse right side, sun headache. Periodical sick headache; pain begins in occiput, spreads upwards, and settles over eyes, especially right. Veins and temples are distended. Pain better lying down and sleep. Headaches return at climacteric; every seventh day (Sulph; Sabad). Pain in small spot over upper left parietal bone. Burning in eyes. Pain in the back of head "like a flash of lightning".

Face

Flushed. Neuralgia; pain extends in all directions from upper jaw. Redness and burning of cheeks. Hectic flush. Fullness and tenderness behind angle of jaws.

Nose

Hay-fever. Ozæna, with profuse, offensive yellowish discharges. Nasal polypi. Coryza, followed by diarrhœa. Chronic rhinitis; membrane dry and congested.

Ears

Burning in ears. Earache with headache. Humming and roaring. Aural polypus.

Throat

Swollen; worse, right side. Dry and constricted. Ulceration of mouth and fauces, with dry, burning sensation Tongue white; feels scalded. Tonsillitis.

Stomach

Aversion to butter. Craving for piquant things. Unquenchable thirst. Burning, vomiting. Nausea, with salivation. Sinking, faint all-gone feeling (Phos; Sep). Spitting up of bile; gastro-duodenal catarrh.

Abdomen

Diarrhœa as coryza improves. Pain over region of liver. Diarrhœa; bilious, liquid, gushing stool (Nat sulph; Lycop). Cancer of rectum.

Female

Leucorrhœa fetid, corrosive. Menses offensive, profuse. Soreness of breasts. Uterine polypi. Before, menses, itching of axillæ. Climacteric disorders.

Respiratory

Œdema of larynx. Trachea sore. Heat and tension behind the sternum. Aphonia. Cough of gastric origin; relieved by eructation. Cough, with burning pain in chest; worse, right side. Sputum tough, rust-colored, offensive, almost impossible to raise. Spasmodic cough after influenza and after whooping-cough. Cough returns with every fresh cold. Tickling behind sternum, causes a constant hacking cough; worse at night on lying down. Must sit up in bed. Burning soreness in right chest, through to right shoulder. Severe soreness under right nipple. Hæmoptysis from suppressed menses. Severe dyspnœa and constriction of chest. Offensive breath and purulent expectoration. Burning in chest as of hot steam from chest to abdomen. Fibroid phthisis. Pneumonia; better, lying on back. Asthma with stomach disorders (Nux). Valvular disease with lung development, phosphates in urine and loss of flesh. Sudden stoppage of catarrh of air passages brings on diarrhœa.

Extremities

Rheumatism of right shoulder, left hip-joint and nape of neck. Burning in soles and palms. Rheumatic pains in places least covered by flesh; not in joints soles of feet burn. Right-side neuritis; better touching the part.

Skin

Antidotes: Rhus poisoning. Red, blotchy eruptions; worse in spring. Burning and itching; worse by heat. Acne, with scanty menses. Circumscribed red spots over malar bones.

Modalities

Worse, sweets, right side, motion, touch. Better, acids, sleep, darkness.

Relationship

Complementary: Tart em.

Compare: Justicia (bronchial catarrh, coryza, hoarseness; oversensitive). Digitalis (Migraine). Bell; Iris; Melil; Lach; Ferr; Op.

Dose

Tincture in headaches; sixth potency in rheumatism.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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Leaders

Pain beginning in occiput; spreads over the head and settles over the right eye, with nausea and vomiting. Sensitive to noise and light.

Loose cough with badly smelling sputa; the breath and sputa smell badly to the patient himself.

Pain in right arm and shoulder; worse at night in bed; cannot raise the arm. Also pain in places where the bones are the least covered.

Heat and tension behind sternum. Cough day and night with great emaciation.

Burning and pressing in breast, followed by heat through abdomen and diarrhœa. Acts intensely on right lung and chest.

Sick headache. Pain commences in the back of the head, rises and spreads over the head, and settles down over the right eye (left eye, Spigelia), with nausea and vomiting; patient wants to be in a dark room and perfectly quiet. I have made some fine cures in long-standing cases of habitual sick headaches of this kind with this remedy. It will probably cure, or greatly relieve, the ordinary American sick headache as often as any other remedy. I use the 200th. Loose cough, with badly smelling sputa; the breath and sputa smelling badly to the patient himself. There is sometimes a pain behind the sternum (Kali hydroid.). This kind of cough usually comes on after a severe bronchitis or pneumonia, and it looks as though the patient were fast running into consumption. There may also be flushes of fever with circumscribed redness of the cheeks, like hectic fever. Many a case of this kind has been helped by this remedy. Dr. T. L Brown used the first trituration of the alkaloid with fine effect. The 200th has made just as good cures. In typhoid pneumonia with great dyspnœa and circumscribed redness of the cheeks, Sanguinaria has, in my hands, done good service. The right lung seems to come markedly under its influence, either in acute or chronic troubles. "Rheumatic pain in right arm and shoulder, worse at night in bed, cannot raise the arm." This condition has often been relieved by this remedy in my hands and has won me much credit. I have seen one dose of the first trituration cure such cases of long standing. I have seen the c. m. do the same thing. Flashes of heat, with hot palms and soles, at the climacteric find a remedy in Sanguinaria. Sometimes indicated after Sulphur and Lachesis have failed, especially if the circumscribed redness of the cheeks appears.

Text Book of Materia Medica

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Mind and Disposition

Angry irritability ; moroseness. Anxiety preceding the vomiting.

Head

Vertigo, when moving the head rapidly and looking upward, with nausea ; ringing in the ears. Congestion of blood to the head, with ringing in the ears ; flushes of heat accumulation of water in the mouth. Headache, with rheumatic pains and stiffness of the limbs and neck. Sick headache, with vomiting (of bile), beginning in the morning, increasing during the day ; worse from motion, stooping, noise, and light ; only endurable when lying and relieved by sleep or after vomiting ; especially severe over the right eye, -the headache returns periodically. Pains in the head, in spots. Pulsations in the head, with bitter vomiting, worse from motion. The headache rises up from the neck. Feeling as if the head were drawn forward. Distention of the veins on the head, especially on the temples, perceptible to the touch.

Eyes

Burning and watering of the right eye, which is painful to the touch, followed by coryza. Dim eyes, with the sensation as if hairs were in them. Frequent obscuration of vision.

Ears

Burning of the ears, with redness of the cheeks.

Nose

Heat in the nose ; coryza, rawness in the throat, pain in the breast, cough, and finally diarrhœa. Loss of smell. Dislike to the odor of syrup. Nasal polypus.

Face, Mouth and Throat

Stiffness of the articulation of the jaws. Pain in hollow teeth, especially when touched by food. Toothache from picking the teeth. Pain in the carious teeth after cold drinking. Looseness of the teeth (with salivation). Feeling of dryness of the lips. Pricking on the point of the tongue. Tongue feels as if burned, or as if sore ; is coated white. Ulcerated sore throat. Feeling of swelling in the throat on swallowing. Feeling of dryness in the throat, not relieved by drinking. Heat in the throat alleviated by the inspiration of cold air. Loss of smell and taste.

Stomach and Abdomen

Craving for he knows not what, with loss of appetite ; craving for piquant food. Burning in the stomach with headache. Sensation of emptiness in the stomach soon after, eating. Inflammation of the stomach. Nausea, which is not diminished by vomiting. Extreme nausea, with great salivation and constant spitting. Nausea, with headache, and with chill and heat. Spasmodic eructation of flatus. Hiccough (while smoking tobacco). Vomiting preceded by anxiety. Vomiting of bitter water ; of worms ; with craving to cat, in order to quiet the nausea. Vomiting and diarrhœa. Pain in the left hypochondrium ; worse by coughing, better by pressure and lying on the left side. Hot streaming from the breast towards the liver. Beating in the abdomen. Sensation as if hot water poured itself from the breast into the abdomen, followed by diarrhœa. Flatulent distention of the abdomen, in the evening, with the escape of flatus from the vagina (the os uteri being dilated). Indurations in the abdomen. Colic, with torpor of the liver.

Stool and Anus

Ineffectual urging to stool, then vomiting. Urging to stool (in the afternoon), but only discharges of flatus. Frequent discharges of very offensive flatus. Diarrhœic stools, with much flatulence. Colic, followed by diarrhœa. Diarrhœa and termination of the coryza, catarrh, or pains in the chest. Stools undigested. Dysentery. Hæmorrhoids.

Urinary Organs

Frequent and copious nocturnal urination, urine as clear as water.

Sexual Organs

Women. Menstruation too early, with a discharge of black blood. Amenorrhœa ; uterine hæmorrhage. Stitches in the mamma. The nipples are sore and painful.

Respiratory Organs

Dryness in the throat, and sensation of swelling in the larynx ; with expectoration of thick mucus. Tickling in the throat in the evening, with cough and headache. Dry cough, awakens him from sleep, which did not cease until he sat upright in bed, and flatus was discharged both upwards and downwards. Cough, with circumscribed redness of the cheeks, with pain in the chest ; with coryza, then diarrhœa. Pulmonary consumption ; expectoration and breath exceedingly offensive. Croup. Hooping-cough. Hydrothorax. Asthma. Pneumonia. Hæmoptysis. Typhoid pneumonia, with very difficult respiration, checks and hands livid, pulse full, soft, vibrating, and easily compressed. Burning and pressing in the chest, followed by heat through the abdomen and diarrhœa. Palpitation of the heart.

Back and Neck

Pain in the sacrum, from lifting ; the pain in the sacrum is alleviated on bending forward. Soreness of the nape of the neck on being touched. Rheumatic pains in the nape of the neck, shoulder, and arms.

Extremities

Upper. Rheumatic pain in the right arm and should worse at night in bed ; cannot raise the arm ; motion (turning in bed) makes it much worse. Burning of the palms of the hands. Stiffness of the finger-joints. Ulceration at the roots of the nails on all the fingers of hands. Lower. Rheumatic pain in the left hip. Rheumatic pain inside of the right thigh. Bruise-like pain in the thigh, alternating with burning and pressing in the chest. Stiffness of the knees. Burning of the soles of the feet and palms of the hands (at night). Rheumatic pains in the limbs ; pain in those places where the bones are least covered with flesh, but not in the joints ; on touching the painful part, the pain immediately vanished and appeared in some other part.

Generalities

Great debility and weakness in the limbs, whilst walking in the open air. Weakness and palpitation of the heart ; fainting weakness. Convulsive rigidity of the limbs.

Sleep

Sleeplessness at night ; awakens in a fright as if he would fall.

Fever

Pulse too frequent and full. Chill and shivering in the back in the evening in bed. Shaking chill. Chill with nausea, headache. Heat flying from the head to the stomach. Fever heat and delirium. Burning heat, rapidly alternating with chill and shivering. Intermittent fevers; marsh fevers ; nervous fever.

Skin

Heat and dryness of the skin. Itching and nettle-rash before the nausea. Old indolent ulcers, with callous borders, and ichorous discharge. Nasal polypi ; fungus excrescences. Jaundice.

Conditions

Constant change of symptoms, when a new one arises the earlier cease. Aggravation morning and evening ; from light, noise, and motion. Amelioration when lying still, in the dark room after vomiting.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

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General

Sanguinaria canadensis. Blood-root. Puccoon. N. O. Papaveraceæ. Tincture of fresh root. (The resin, leaves, seeds, seed-vessels, powdered root, and expressed juice have also been used.) Acetum.

Clinical

Alcoholism. Aphonia. Asthma. Breast, tumour of. Bronchitis. Cancer. Catarrh. Chest, pains in . Climaxis. Cold . Croup. Deafness. Diphtheria. Dysmenorrhœa. Dyspepsia. Ear, polypus of . Flushes, climacteric. Gleet. Granular lids. Hæmoptysis. Headache. Influenza . Keratitis. Liver-cough. Menstruation, breasts painful during . Nails, ulceration of. Neuralgia. Œdema glottidis. Ophthalmia. Pharyngitis. Phthisis florida. Physometra. Pneumonia, acute. Polypus . Pregnancy, affections during. Pyrosis. Quinsy. Rheumatism. Rhus poisoning. Shoulder, rheumatism of. Smell, illusions of; loss of . Stomach, neurosis of. Syphilis. Tinnitus. Tumours. Vomiting. Whitlow. Whooping-cough.

Characteristics

The Blood-root, or Puccoon, commonly found throughout the United States and Canada, is the sole representative of the genus Sanguinaria of the Papaveraceæ. It is herbaceous, has a thick, branching root stock, which creeps along underground; and in early spring sends up from the ends of the little side branches a single long-stalked leaf, and another stalk bearing a solitary flower. The leaf is wrapped round the flower-bud when it rises from the ground, and is bluntly five to nine-lobed, roundish at first, but afterwards kidney-shaped. The American Indians formerly used the orange-coloured juice of the root for smearing their bodies, and for staining various domestic articles. The plant has also been successfully used by American and French dyers ( Treas. of Bot .). Hale says of the root: "It is succulent, and when cut or broken emits from numerous points on the transverse surface a light orange, or rather dark vermilion-coloured juice, which has a bitterish, acrid but peculiar taste, which remains long in the mouth and leaves a persistent burning in the throat. The juice of the stem is between a red colour and a yellow, as that from the stem of Chel. maj . is pure yellow, and that from Papaver somnif . [ Opium ] is white." It is well to bear in mind the parallelism observable between these three Poppies, no less in their medicinal than in their physical properties. The time for collecting the root is early spring or late autumn. An alkaloid, Sanguinarin (identical with Chelerythrin of Chelidonium majus ), has been isolated, and the Nitrate of this has been studied separately. Hale refers to a paper by Dr. Tully, published in 1813, in which Sang . is described as being analogous in its action to Squills, Senega, Digitalis, Guaiacum , and Ammonia , which shows an accurate conception of its range. In doses of from eight to twenty grains of the powdered root, Sang . is an active poison producing Nausea; burning in stomach; tormenting thirst; faintness; vertigo indistinct vision; violent, spasmodic efforts of the stomach, free vomiting, followed by alarming prostration. S. L. Mitchell has recorded fatal poisoning of four workmen who drank the tincture in mistake for brandy. They were all soon seized with severe racking and burning pains in the stomach and bowels with intense thirst. "Burning" is one of the leading notes of the remedy, and is found in many different parts. Winterburn has published ( H. M . vii. 532) two cases illustrating this indication in the region of the stomach: ( 1 ) Mr. F., 48, of sanguino-bilious temperament, energetic, refined, had been ill with pains in the stomach several months. A clairvoyant had recommended "a decoction of blood-root and bone-set in tablespoonful doses." Each dose produced "intense burning pains in the stomach lasting for hours," and it had to be discontinued. Several-weeks later Winterburn was consulted, and this is the condition he found: Burning in epigastrium, with pressure, < at night, but coming on soon after lying clown and compelling patient to arise. Eructations gave no > . Appetite great; bowels torpid, an unsatisfactory relief each morning, leaving a sense of discomfort. Peculiar drawing pain in shoulders and arms during sleep, so that when she woke the lists were tightly clenched and flexed on the sternal end of clavicle; lameness and weariness of the muscles followed. Sang . 200, chosen after careful comparison with Nux, Graph ., and others, was given every night at bedtime. After the first dose the symptoms disappeared "like magic," and the patient was soon well. ( 2 ) Mrs. S., 30, a chronic inebriate, had been drinking steadily for three weeks when sickness and diarrhœa set in. Nux 1x aggravated the nausea. Ars . 6 checked the diarrhœa and relieved the intense thirst, but did nothing to allay the vomiting. Patient was irritable, angry. Everything she took, even water, was instantly ejected. About every twenty minutes she had a spasm or cramp of the stomach, with gagging and coughing, bringing up some frothy mucus. The straining caused great pain in chest and abdomen. There was, besides, the most intense burning, extending from the stomach up the œsophagus to pharynx, which felt swollen and dry. The only tolerable position was lying slightly turned on her left side. Lying on right side was impossible. Rising from lying = vertigo. Cheeks and hands livid. She believed she would soon die, and was unwilling to be left alone. Sang . 200 was given every two hours. By evening the nausea had ceased, but the burning pain remained as before. The smallest particle of food gave great agony; it seemed as if a spot the size of a florin was ulcerated, and any contact with this was excruciating. She slept better, but awakened next morning in a fright. Next afternoon she was able to take a little solid food, and from that time recovery was rapid. Burning is a leading note of Sang . Burning of eyes; of ears. Tongue and throat feel as if they had been burnt or scalded. Burning palms and soles. Burning in chest; between breasts, streaming from breasts to abdomen. Leonard ( Min. H. Mag ., ii. 295) says "a circumscribed burning in the chest, commonly followed by heat through abdomen and diarrhœa," is a strong indication for Sang . in pneumonic conditions. Sang . has also the circumscribed hectic flush on the cheeks, as in phthisis, in which it is frequently indicated. ( Sang . has also the "hopefulness" of phthisical patients.) The flushed face, at times dark red or livid, is also a prominent feature of Sang ., as it is of Op. Sang . affects the whole respiratory tract, irritates the nasal mucous membrane, and causes coryza, with pain at root of nose, lost or perverted sense of smell, and sensitiveness to the odour of flowers. Influenza, hay-fever, ozæna, and polypus have all come within its range. Laryngitis and membranous croup have been cured by it; and I have found it meet a greater proportion of the tracheal and bronchial coughs of epidemic influenza than any other remedy. The chief features are: Violent, dry cough; wheezing, whistling, metallic; sputa almost impossible to raise. I have seen several cases of this kind rescued from apparently imminent death by Sang ., the relief conies by the expectoration of a thick plug of mucus which was causing suffocation, and which the patient was too weak to dislodge. Like Chel., Sang . is a right-side medicine, and affects especially the right lung; and is suited to pulmonary affections with liver involvement. After influenza children often get a cough scarcely distinguishable from whooping-cough. I have found Sang . the chief remedy for this. It is also the remedy for severe cough after whooping-cough ─ the cough returns with every fresh cold. Sang . also acts powerfully on the outer chest, sternum, and mammæ. Like Chel ., it has a reputation for curing cancer, polypi, and new growths. I have seen breast tumours diminish under its action. Offensiveness and acridity characterise the discharges of Sang .; and the breath and flatus are also offensive. Menses offensive, flow bright red; later blood darker and less offensive. Before menses itching of axillæ. Eruption on the face of young women, especially during scanty menses. Climacteric disorders: flashes of heat; leucorrhœa; painful enlargement of breasts. The headaches of Sang . are of great intensity, and have some striking characteristics. They are ( 1 ) periodic ─ every seventh day; ( 2 ) begin in the morning, increase to noon, and then diminish; ( 3 ) are bursting, or as if the eyes would be pressed out; ( 4 ) begin at occiput, spread upwards and forwards, and settle over right eye; ( 5 ) like a flash of lightning in occiput; ( 6 ) > by sleep; ( 7 ) return at climacteric. Hering described the headache of Sang . as the "American sick-headache" ─ rush of blood causing faintness and nausea, pains lancinating or throbbing. Can neither bear light nor odours nor least jar, as any one stepping across the floor; at height of headache vomiting of food and bile; pain so violent patient goes out of her mind or seeks relief by pressing head against pillow or with the hands. Cooper gives as a keynote: "If he goes without food, gets bilious headaches." Sang . has also neuralgia of the face > by kneeling down and pressing head firmly against the floor; pain extends in all directions from the upper jaw. The ears are strongly affected by Sang . Cooper gives me this case: Girl, 19, had her throat bad three years from scarlatina, and lately increasing deafness; noises all over head, and vertigo and sudden flushings in daytime; menses too frequent, and profuse leucorrhœa; it pains tier to walk from backache; had to give up teaching from this; appetite poor from the headaches and tinnitus; often has pain behind angles of lower jaw and swellings of gland. All disappeared after a single dose of Sang . Ø, though at first the leucorrhœa was increased. "Fulness and tenderness behind angle of jaws" is, according to Cooper, a keynote. Sang . causes many symptoms of rheumatism, but the most characteristic is a rheumatic pain in right arm and shoulder; cannot raise the arm, < at night. Pains in places where the bones are least covered. Peculiar Sensations are: As if paralysed. As if forehead would burst. As of a band across forehead. As if head were drawn forward. As if electric current shooting through head. As if temples and scalp were alive with irrepressible pulsation. As if eyes would be pressed out. As if hairs were in eyes. As if she was in a railway car which was moving and jarring her, and as if all about her moved rapidly and confusedly. Pain like drawing a rope on a windlass as tight as possible. Tongue as if burnt. Tip of tongue as if scalded. Tongue as if in contact with something hot. Throat as if swollen. Throat so (try it seems as if it would crack. Pharynx as if burnt or scalded. As if some hard substance in stomach. Constriction in pit of stomach as if suffocating. As of a mass in lower part of rectum. As if upper part of chest were too full of blood. Larynx as if swollen. F. Nichol in giving Hale his experience with Sang . in croup, says he used (following Paine, eclectic) a solution of Sanguinarin in vinegar, and he found that the most effective preparation. The symptoms are < by touch. [A painful sensitiveness is very characteristic of Sang .: Temporal veins painfully sensitive; head and eye very painful; nipples sore.] Hard pressure > ; (must kneel down and press head hard to floor in neuralgia). Slightest jar < . Lifting = lumbago. Lying dawn > rheumatism and headache; but < cough and most other complaints. Cough < . Lying with head low < cough. Lying on left side > . < Lying on right side. Sitting up and passing flatus > cough. Motion; turning head quickly; turning in bed; stooping; coughing; exercise < . Cannot raise arm from side but can swing it to and fro (in rheumatism). Eating < . Going without food = headache. > Eructations (mind confused). Swallowing < . Vomiting > (Nausea; headache). Smoking = hiccough, < At night. > After sleep. Headache < by day, sunrise to sunset. Cold open air > . Cold room < cough. Damp weather < . The right side is more affected than the left. Symptoms go from right to left. Periodicity is very marked.

Relations

It antidotes: Opium. Compatible: Bell. (scarlatina). Compare: Botan., Chel., Op. In rheumatism of right deltoid, Mg. c. (of left, Fer., Nx. m.). Headache extending forward from occiput and settling over (right) eye, Spi. (left eye), Sill., Sep. (both eyes); extending forward, Gels., Lac c.; (backward, Anac., Bry., Chi. s., Naj., Nux). Headache > by hard pressure, Chi., Indg., Mg. m. Paroxysms of headache ending in profuse urination, Ign., Gels., Ver. Menstrual headache, Sep. (Sep. scanty flow; Sang. profuse). Offensive breath with cough, Caps. Faint from odours, Pho., Ig., Val., Nux. Right-side, throbbing, congestive headache, < light and noise, Bell. (Bell. has "cold feet, hot head," and is > sitting propped up; Sang. headache has more of the gastric form, and is > lying down), Meli. Periodic sick headaches, Ir. v. (Ir. v. every eighth day; every seventh, Saba., Sang., Sil., Sul.). Pneumonia, Ver. v. (more marked arterial excitement), Pho., Ant. t. (face livid, blood carbonised, rattling cough), Sul. (resolution imperfect). ─ (Sang. has sputa very offensive, even to patient). Rheumatism of right ankle, Chel. > Lying left side, Lil. t. Painfulness to touch of parts where pain has been, Lcprs. Sensitive to sudden sounds, Brx. Jerking or jumping as from something alive in stomach, Croc. Physometra, Lyc., Bov. Liver-cough (Scil. spleen-cough). Pain in bones covered only with skin, Rh. ven. Laryngeal and nasal polypi, Sang. n., Pso., Teuc. Eruption on face of young women during scanty menses, Bels., Calc., jamb., Pso. Right-side complaints; right to left, Lyc., Chel. > By sleep, Pho.

Mind

Angry irritability; moroseness. ─ Anxiety and dread preceding the vomiting. ─ Mind confused, > by eructations. ─ Mental torpor, stupor, heaviness, sleepiness. ─ Hopefulness, sanguine of recovery. ─ Disgusting ideas. ─ Dreamy state with eyes open.

Head

Vertigo: terrible; when moving head rapidly and looking upward; with nausea, fainting, and headache; with ringing in ears; on rising from a sitting or stooping position; on quickly turning the head; with dim vision; with dull, heavy feeling in stomach as if caused by some hard substance there; in cold weather; during sleep; at climaxis. ─ Head swims on lying down suddenly; gets pain l. side of back near waist, as from spleen; bowels confined; complexion spotty (cured in woman, 32. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Sensation of heaviness in head. ─ Determination of blood to head, with whizzing in ears; flushes of heat; accumulation of water in mouth. ─ Headache over whole head from 5 p.m. to midnight; then free; and then sickness (vomiting) from 5 p.m. to midnight (agg. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Headache, with rheumatic pains and stiffness of limbs and neck. ─ Periodical sick headache; with vomiting of bile; begins in morning, < during day, lasts till evening; < from motion, stooping, noise, and light; only endurable when lying still, and > by sleep or after vomiting; esp. severe over r. eye. ─ Headache returns periodically. ─ Heaviness in head from vertex to centre of forehead, with pressing in glabella and buzzing in head; eyes dull. ─ Terrific headache as if caused by approaching coryza which does not come, in forehead and middle of vertex, with pressure in eyes, which burn and are moved with difficulty. ─ Terrific headache during the fever. ─ Dull, pressive frontal headache. ─ Headache as if forehead would burst, with chill and burning in stomach. ─ Frontal headache extending into cheek-bones. ─ Headache or neuralgia over r. eye. ─ Headache as if it must burst, or as if eyes would be pressed out; > walking in open air. ─ Headache with shuddering. ─ Headache begins in occiput, spreads upward, and settles over r. eye. ─ Pain in head in rays drawing upwards from neck. ─ Headache with nausea and chilliness, followed by flushes of heat, extending from head to stomach. ─ Headache with flushed face. ─ Pains in head in spots. ─ Pains in head, which pass rapidly from one place to another, like electric shocks. ─ Pulsations in head (throbbing headache), with bitter vomiting, < from motion. ─ Headache rising up from neck. ─ Feeling as if head were drawn forward. ─ Distension of veins on head, esp. on temples, perceptible to the touch and sore. ─ Sensation of mobility in the scalp. ─ Head very painful to touch; where pain has been. ─ Distension of veins in temples; sore when touched.

Eyes

Neuralgia in and over l. eye. ─ Burning and watering of r. eye, which is painful to the touch, followed by coryza. ─ Acute conjunctivitis with ecchymoses, tending to trachoma. ─ Blepharitis. ─ Burning dryness in eyes; followed by copious lachrymation. ─ Retinal congestion with flushed face and congestive headache. ─ Yellow sclerotica, jaundice. ─ Catarrhal ophthalmia, granular lids. ─ Redness of eyes in morning. ─ Hard swelling like scirrhus over eyebrows. ─ Dim eyes, with sensation as if hairs were in them. ─ Pain in eyeballs on moving them. ─ Balls sore, with darting through them and dim vision. ─ Violent twittering before eyes. ─ Vapour or cloud before eyes.

Ears

Burning of ears, with redness of cheeks. ─ Earache, with headache, with singing in ears and vertigo. ─ Humming and roaring in ears with painful sensitiveness to sudden sounds in women at climaxis. ─ Cracking in r. ear while stroking cheek. ─ Every stroke of a hammer heard near a blacksmith's shop is painful to r. ear. ─ Vein on r. temple swells up in woman, 50, subject to neuralgia and old vascular deafness; after Sang . Ø, one dose, hearing improves for six days strikingly, and then reverts (R. T. C.). ─ Throat affections causing deafness and earache. ─ Acts strongly on l. Eustachian tube ( Hydrast . on r.); acts on ethmoid cells specially (R. T. C.). ─ Increased redness of external ear, with humming and roaring in ears from increased circulation of blood through aural structures. ─ Burning ears, cheeks red. ─ Aural polypus.

Nose

Fluent coryza with frequent sneezing; < r. side. ─ Heat in nose; coryza, rawness in throat, pain in breast, cough, and finally diarrhœa. ─ Coryza, watery, acrid; with tingling; with heavy pain at root of nose and stinging in nose. ─ Dry coryza, as from a sudden cold. ─ Alternately fluent and dry coryza. ─ Smell in nose like roasted onion. ─ Rose-cold, with subsequent asthma; sick and faint from odour of flowers. ─ Loss of smell and taste. ─ Dislike to odour of syrup. ─ Nasal polypus.

Face

Circumscribed redness of one or both cheeks. ─ Paleness of face, with disposition to vomit. ─ Pain in cheek. ─ Stitches l. side of face with pains in forehead. ─ Neuralgia in upper jaw, extending to nose, eye, ear, neck, and side of head; shooting, burning pains; must kneel down and hold head tightly to the floor. ─ Face bloated, with sensation of rigidity and fulness. ─ Veins distended, feel stiff and sore to touch. ─ Twitching of cheeks toward eyes. ─ Stiffness of articulation of jaws. ─ Fulness and tenderness behind angles of jaw (a keynote. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Red cheeks: with burning ears; with cough. ─ Lips feel dry. ─ Under lip burns, is swollen, hard, and blistered; blisters dry up and form crusts which fall off.

Teeth

Pain in hollow teeth, esp. when touched by food. ─ Toothache from picking teeth. ─ Pain in carious teeth after cold drinking. ─ Looseness of teeth (with salivation). ─ Bleeding, spongy, fungoid gums.

Mouth

Pricking on the point of the tongue. ─ Tongue feels as if burned or as if sore; is coated white. ─ White coated tongue with slimy, fatty taste. ─ Red streak through middle of tongue. ─ Tip of tongue burns as if scalded. ─ Pricking in tip of tongue. ─ Stitches in l. side of tongue. ─ Crawling on tip of tongue followed by astringent sensation of whole tongue, on waking. ─ Dry, acrid sensations, beginning r. side and extending over whole tongue. ─ Prickling on tongue and hard palate as after chewing Mezereum . ─ Sweet things taste bitter, followed by burning in fauces. ─ Loss of smell and taste; with a burnt feeling on tongue. ─ Sore on gums and roof of mouth. ─ Fetid breath, clammy mouth, sticky teeth. ─ White patches on mucous membrane.

Throat

Ulcerated sore throat, as if raw and denuded. ─ Feeling of swelling in throat on swallowing, < on r. side. ─ Throat feels swollen as if to suffocation, aphonia. ─ Tonsillitis, promotes suppuration. ─ Throat so dry, seems as if it would crack. ─ Feeling of dryness in throat (with tickling cough), not > by drinking. ─ Sensation in pharynx as if scalded by hot drink. ─ Uvula sore and burning. ─ Burning pharynx and œsophagus. ─ Heat in throat > by drawing in cold air. ─ Inflammation in throat. ─ Warming sensation in fauces, esp. soft palate. ─ Burning in fauces extending to centre of sternal region.

Appetite

Craving for he knows not what, with loss of appetite; wants piquant, spiced things. ─ Loss of appetite with great weakness of digestion. ─ Aversion to butter, which leaves a sweetish taste. ─ Sugar tastes bitter and = burning. ─ Tormenting thirst. ─ Sweet things < , = burning. ─ Soon after eating: feels empty; difficult breathing, nausea, waterbrash, lassitude almost to fainting, cold sweat to 12 p.m., after a little food. ─ If goes without food, gets bilious headaches (keynote. ─ R. T. C.).

Stomach

Burning in stomach, with headache. ─ Inflammation of stomach. ─ Sensation of emptiness in stomach soon after eating (faint, feverish feeling). ─ Soreness and pressure in epigastrium; < after eating. ─ Hiccough whilst smoking. ─ Spasmodic eructation of flatus. ─ Frequent fetid eructations with disposition to vomit and pale face. ─ Pyrosis. ─ Nausea, which is not > by vomiting. ─ Extreme nausea with great salivation and constant spitting. ─ Nausea with headache, and with chill and heat. ─ Vomiting preceded by anxiety. ─ Vomiting: of bitter water; of sour, acrid fluids of ingesta; of worms; with craving to eat in order to quiet the nausea. ─ Vomiting and diarrhœa. ─ Sudden attacks of constriction in pit of stomach as if suffocating. ─ Goneness with sick headache. ─ Jerking or jumping in stomach as if from something alive. ─ Neurosis of stomach. ─ Pain in stomach-pit extending down into bowels, causing rumbling.

Abdomen

Hot streaming from breast towards liver. ─ Sensation as if hot water poured itself from breast into abdomen, followed by diarrhœa. ─ Dull burning in r. hypochondrium and chest. ─ Awoke with severe pain in region of spleen. ─ Violent stitches in spleen. ─ Pain in l. hypochondrium; < by coughing, > by pressure and lying on l. side. ─ Jaundice. ─ Liver-cough. ─ Colic, with torpor of liver. ─ Beating and spasms in abdomen. ─ (Flatus, cough and sneezing. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Flatulent distension of abdomen, evening, with escape of flatus from vagina (the os uteri being dilated). ─ Beating in abdomen. ─ Induration in abdomen. ─ Cutting bellyache from r. to l. of iliac fossa, thence to rectum. ─ Throbbing in abdomen. ─ Shooting pains through bowels extending to lower limbs, afternoon. ─ Knife-thrusts in abdomen followed by watery stools. ─ Cramp extending from place to place.

Stool and Anus

Ineffectual urging to stool; then vomiting. ─ Urging to stool, afternoon, but only discharges of flatus. ─ Distressing, cutting, spasmodic sensation in rectum in evening; recurred several days. ─ In effectual desire with sensation of thick mass in anus; repeated several times in the day without stool. ─ Diarrhœic stools with much flatulence. ─ Copious apple-green stools with flatus (offensive) and sudden urging (agg. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Frequent discharges of very offensive flatus. ─ Colic followed by diarrhœa. ─ Diarrhœa with disappearance of coryza, catarrh, or pains in chest and cough. ─ Stools undigested. ─ Dysentery. ─ Alternate diarrhœa and constipation. ─ Constipation; stools in hard lumps. ─ Hæmmorrhoids.

Urinary Organs

Dull, heavy pain across kidneys. ─ Pain from kidneys penetrates r. iliac fossa, then shoots through sigmoid flexure to rectum. ─ Frequent and copious nocturnal urination, urine as clear as water. ─ (Retention of urine consequent on gravel and calculus.). ─ Urine is thick and white next day (agg. from 200th. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Copious urination goes on all night with much > to chest symptoms (in a lady. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Very copious urine at night, with pain in l. hypochondrium; < from coughing; > from pressure and lying on l. side. ─ Urine: dark yellow; high-coloured, red sediment. ─ Ardor urinæ.

Male Sexual Organs

Burning in glans. ─ Emissions two nights in succession; after which he felt very well. ─ Gleet; old cases. ─ Cheesy secretions from glans (syphilis).

Female Sexual Organs

Climacteric disorders, esp. flushes of heat and corrosive, fetid leucorrhœa. ─ Burning of palms and soles at climaxis compelling to throw off clothes. ─ Painful enlargement of breasts at climaxis. ─ Abdominal pains as if menses would appear. ─ [Delaying menses, chilliness followed by flushes of heat and occasional palpitation, faintness, vertigo, nausea, and violent vomiting, burning in œsophagus, neuralgia in r. temple, in l. chest (mamma) and lower extremities, occasional hacking cough and gastralgia. ─ Carmichæl.]. ─ Menstruation too early, with a discharge of black blood. ─ Menses: more profuse than usual; with headache r. side; at night time, very offensive, putrid, bright red, clotting, becoming darker towards end and less offensive. ─ Amenorrhoea. ─ Metrorrhagia. ─ Dysmenorrhœa of feeble, torpid subjects, with tendency to congestion of lungs, liver, or head. ─ Burning pain between breasts in afternoon, < on r. side. ─ Shootings in bosom and pain in mammæ as from excoriation. ─ The nipples are sore and painful. ─ Stitches in nipples, esp. r. ─ Sharp, piercing pain in r. breast, just beneath nipple; < deep breath, some dyspnœa. ─ Pain in r. breast extends to shoulder, can hardly place hand on head. ─ Threatened abortion, pains in loins extending through epigastric and iliac regions and down thighs. ─ Hydrops uteri.

Respiratory Organs

Dryness in throat and sensation of swelling in larynx; with expectoration of thick mucus. ─ Aphonia with swelling in throat. ─ Œdema of larynx. ─ Tickling in throat, evening, after lying down, with dry, hacking cough and headache. ─ Crawling sensation extending down behind sternum. Tracheal irritation secondary to heart disease. ─ Croup: hearse, muffled cough; complete aphonia; spasmodic cough, painful crowing, stridulous breathing. ─ Cough dry, tickling in throat-pit. ─ Distressing, spasmodic, exhaustive cough. ─ Dry cough, awakens him from sleep, which did not cease until he sat upright in bed, and flatus was discharged both upwards and downwards. ─ Continual severe cough, with circumscribed redness of cheeks, with pain in chest; with coryza, then diarrhœa. ─ Coughs in old men with l. earache, and pains going from l. throat to ear. ─ Expectoration: tough; difficult; rust-coloured; extreme dyspnœa; hepatisation. ─ Breath and sputa smell badly even to patient. ─ Pulmonary consumption, expectoration and breath exceedingly offensive. ─ Whooping-cough. ─ Severe cough after whooping-cough; the cough returns every time patient takes cold. ─ Asthma: excessive dyspnœa; esp. after "rose-cold," < from odours.

Chest

Hydrothorax. ─ Hæmoptysis. ─ Pneumonia: catarrhal; chronic; r. side; l. side, with heart disease. ─ Typhoid pneumonia, with very difficult respiration, cheeks and hands livid, pulse full, soft, vibrating, and easily compressed. ─ Severe dyspnœa and constriction of chest, with inclination to take deep inspirations. ─ Sharp stitches in r. chest. ─ Stitches in lower part of l. breast to shoulder. ─ Pain in breast with periodic cough. ─ A shooting, sticking pain beneath sternum. ─ Persistent pain beneath sternum and in r. breast. ─ Intense burning between breasts, < r. side. ─ Sharp, piercing, neuralgic pain half-way between sternum and nipple. ─ Hot, burning streaming from r. chest to liver. ─ Pain under l. clavicle on waking. ─ Constriction across both breasts. ─ Violent stitches under short ribs. ─ Burning and pressing in breast, followed by heat through abdomen and diarrhœa. ─ Pain in r. chest to shoulder; can only with difficulty place hand to head.

Heart

Painful stitches or pressive pain beneath præcordial region. Surging of blood and racing palpitation, with dry and burning skin. ─ Weak feeling about heart. ─ Metastasis of rheumatism (or gout) to heart from outward applications. ─ Palpitation of heart. ─ Irregularity of heart's action and of the pulse, with coldness, insensibility, &c. ─ Pulse slow, irregular, feeble.

Neck and Back

Soreness of nape on being touched. ─ Rheumatic pain in nape, shoulders, and arms. ─ Pain in r. side of neck as if strained; in l. side. ─ Soreness down muscles of back; pains shifting about; feels pain more when drawing long breath. ─ Pain in inner border of r. shoulder-blade. ─ Pain in sacrum from lifting; the pain in sacrum is > on bending forward. ─ Pain in sacrum and bowels.

Limbs

Rheumatic pain in limbs, esp. in shoulders, arms, and thighs, and < at night. ─ Burning in hands and feet < night.

Upper Limbs

Itching in axillæ before menses. ─ Rheumatic pain in r. arm and shoulder, < at night in bed; cannot raise arm; motion (turning in bed) much < it. ─ Pain in top of r. shoulder. ─ Pain in r. deltoid. ─ R. arm hung helpless. ─ Coldness in body and r. arm. ─ Burning of palms. ─ Stiffness of finger-joints. ─ Aching in ball of r. thumb. ─ Fungoid growth between second and third metacarpal bones, protruding about a quarter of an inch out of palm. ─ Ulceration at roots of nails on all the fingers of both hands. ─ Panaritium, first r. then l. finger. ─ Shooting pains from r. thumb to symphysis menti.

Lower Limbs

Rheumatic pain in l. hip. ─ Rheumatic pain inside of r. thigh. ─ Bruise-like pain in thigh, alternating with burning and pressure in chest. ─ Stiffness of knees. ─ Burning of soles, < at night. ─ Rheumatic pains in limbs; pain in those places where the bones are least covered with flesh, but not in the joints; on touching the painful part the pain immediately vanished and appeared in some other part. ─ (Have seen ulcers connected with carious ankles and shins change almost visibly after Sang . ─ Gutteridge). ─ Sharp pain in r. ankle and great toe-joint. ─ Cold feet, afternoon.

Generalities

Great debility and weakness in limbs (esp. in morning on waking), whilst walking in the open air. ─ Paralysis of r. side. ─ General torpor and languor. ─ An uncomfortable, prickling sensation of warmth spreading over whole body. ─ Weakness and palpitation of heart; fainting weakness. ─ Convulsive rigidity of limbs. ─ We find this very useful where there is a pain rising from the back of the neck over the top of the head, running down into the forehead; this symptom may occur alone, or in connection with some other trouble (H. N. G.). ─ Often useful for troubles occurring in females at the climacteric period of life ─ such as flashes of heat, &c. (H. N. G.).

Skin

Heat and dryness of skin. ─ Itching and nettle-rash before the nausea. ─ Old, indolent ulcers, with callous borders and ichorous discharge. ─ Nasal polypi; fungus excrescences. ─ Jaundice. ─ Eruption on face of young women with menstrual troubles, esp. deficiency. ─ Scaly eruptions, carbuncles. ─ Rhus poisoning.

Sleep

Drowsiness causing mental and bodily indolence. ─ Sleeplessness at night; awakens in a fright as if he would fall. ─ Can't sleep without brandy. ─ Slightest noise disturbs, yet is sleepy and dreamy. (R. T. C.). ─ Dreams: of sea voyages, with sensation of being rocked; of business matters; frightful.

Fever

Pulse too frequent and full. ─ Coldness of feet in afternoon, with painful, sore tongue; stiffness of knee and finger-joints. ─ Chill and shivering in back, evening, in bed. ─ Shaking chill. ─ Chill with nausea, headache. ─ Heat flying from head to stomach. ─ Fever heat and delirium. ─ Burning heat rapidly alternating with chill and shivering. ─ Intermittent fevers; marsh fevers; nervous fever. ─ Fever from pulmonary, hepatic, or gastric inflammation. ─ Copious sweat; cold sweat.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

Mind

Mind confused, relieved by eructations.
Anxiety : and feeling of dread ; precedes vomiting and delirium.
Angry irritability ; moroseness with nausea ; cannot bear a person to walk in room.
Delirium with hot skin.
Mental torpor, stupor, heaviness, sleepiness.
Hopefulness, sanguine of recovery.
Disgusting ideas, and many unpleasant feelings associated with nausea.
Sensation as if paralyzed and unable to move while lying on her back, with full consciousness of her surroundings.
With open eyes, one dream chases another ; her thoughts constantly returning, however, to the one idea, which seems droll to her, "What will become of my condition, shall I have typhoid fever, inflammation of the brain, or shall I remain paralyzed ?"
It seems to her as if the events that transpired in her dreams were not of hours' but of weeks' and months' duration.
It seems to her as if all around her talked very rapidly, and that she is in a railroad car and begs others to hold her.

Sensorium

Vertigo : with long-continuing nausea, debility and headache ; with singing in ears ; with diminished vision, before vomiting ; with nausea and headache, followed by spasmodic vomiting ; with dull, heavy feeling in stomach, as if
caused from some hard substance there ; on quickly turning head and looking upward ; on lying down at night ; on rising from stooping ; in cold weather ; during sleep ; during climaxis.
Head feels dizzy, cannot turn quickly without fear of falling.

Inner head

Headache with nausea and chilliness, followed by flushes of heat, extending from head to stomach.
Violent pain over upper portion of whole left side of head, especially in eye.
Headache as if forehead would burst, with chill and burning in stomach.
Pressive headache in forehead.
Frontal headache with considerable vertigo, on rising from a sitting posture.
Frontal headache extending into cheek bones.
Pain in forepart of head, shoulders, chest and stomach.
Headache over right eye.
Neuralgia in and over right eye.
Head aches as if it would burst ; > walking in open air < in temples, especially in right, in afternoon.
Pains in head in spots ; soreness especially in temples.
Dull headache.
Wandering pains in head.
Headache with shuddering.
Beating headache with throbbing in temporal arteries and bitter vomiting.
Pulsations in head, with bitter vomiting, < from motion.
Headache, with rheumatic pains and stiffness of limbs and neck.
Headache every seventh day.
Pains like a flash of lightning in back of head.
Headache begins in occiput, spreads upward and settles over right eye.
Pain in head in rays, drawing upward from neck.
Rheumatic headache, running up posterior auricular region.
Feeling as if head were drawn forward.
Severe headache only relieved by pressing back up against something hard, or by pressing back of head.
Periodical sick-headache ; begins in morning, increases during day, lasts until evening ; head feels as if it must burst, or as if eyes would be pressed out ; throbbing, lancinating pains through brain, < in right side, especially in
forehead and vertex ; followed by chills, nausea, vomiting of food or bile ; must lie down and remain quiet ; relieved by sleep.
A band-like constriction across forehead just below eyebrows ; < by exercise, with violent throbbing of temporal arteries ; shooting pains from one temple to other, < in night ; < from light, > from sleep.
Headache concentrating in a small spot over right eye ; eye becomes red and sore, yet hard pressure upon eye relieves.
Headache especially over right eye ; rheumatic pain in neck and shoulders (more in left) ; > when lying perfectly still ; patient approaching climacteric period.
Intermittent neuralgia coming in morning and lasting four to six hours ; pain at internal superior angle of right orbit, acute pressing with occasional darts inward and some throbbing ; part sore, but he holds his hand there while pain lasts ; conjunctiva considerably
injected during pain ; catarrhal discharge, thick, mostly from right side of nose ; every day for five or six days.
Violent pulsation and tearing in right temple, < from motion ; the slightest shaking is intolerable to her, so that she cannot bear to have any one walk across the floor. θ Sick-headache.
Headache with distension of temporal veins which are painfully sensitive to touch.
Pressing pains in head, extending from nape of neck over side of head and settling over left eye, accompanied by nausea and vomiting of food, bile and mucus ; must lie down ; > when lying down and vomiting ; attacks every eight days for last nine years.
Severe pains in head, with nausea and vomiting, frequently with bilious vomiting in weekly attacks or at longer intervals, commonly beginning in morning, increasing in violence through day, only diminished by lying quiet and sleeping.
Sick-headache from childhood ; eyes weak and sore ; photophobia, especially with headache ; for last six weeks headache every third day, commencing A. M., pains extend from right eye through back part of head ; she is in dark room and cannot bear least
light ; if she is quiet all day is usually > in evening ; nausea, but does not often vomit unless she goes into bright light, or moves about ; catamenia every two weeks, blood dark and clotted ; constipation ; debility.
Sick-headache every two weeks ; when overexerted so as to become very tired, she has a great appetite, but satisfying it is followed by sick-headache ; is in the habit of eating late in evening ; during headache hot flashes and a sensation like that of an electrical
current shooting very rapidly from one part of head to the other.
Pain commencing in right occiput, extending to right temporal bone, a tight drawing, gradually increasing in intensity, like drawing a rope on a windlass as tight as you can get it until it is almost beyond endurance, when it gradually subsides.
Sick-headache, commencing in morning on awaking, < during day, > by sleep at night ; pain confined chiefly to temples and vertex, so violent as to cause her to cry out ; nausea generally in morning, followed by vomiting, first of food, afterward of pure bile, occasionally
considerable acid mucus, with severe burning distress in stomach, great weakness and goneness, even worse to bear than headache ; least quantity of food or drink is immediately vomited ; attacks come on at irregular intervals.
Headache and nausea, symptoms increasing hour by hour ; patient groaning and writhing in agony, face very red, head hot, injected eyes, sensitive to light ; arteries about head and scalp distended like whip cords, blood coursing through them at a furious rate, giving a
sensation to head as if temples and scalp were alive with irrepressible pulsation ; pain over whole head ; paroxysms of violent retching every few minutes ; free flow of clear urine as the attack passes off.
Distressing sick-headache, for years ; in some degree the symptoms were nearly always present ; headache commencing in forenoon, gradually increasing in violence until sunset, when it would either quietly subside or confine her to bed for a day or two ; the pains
originated low in occiput, drawing upward in rays, locating over r., sometimes over left eye, attended with vomiting, often of bilious matter ; subject to sudden flushes of heat, burning of soles of feet and quickly diffused transient thrill felt at remotest extremity ; at times
sensible throbbing of every pulse in body ; urine generally scanty before and during severe headache, but quantities of clear urine pass when getting better.
"American sick-headache ;" rush of blood to head, causing faintness and nausea, even continuing until vomiting sets in ; violent pains begin in occipital region, spread thence over head and settle over right eye ; pains sharp, lancinating, at times
throbbing ; can bear neither sounds nor odors ; cannot bear any one to walk across floor, the slightest jar annoys her ; at height of headache vomiting of food and bile ; is forced to remain quiet in a dark room ; sleep finally relieves ; sometimes pain is so
violent that patient goes out of her mind, or seeks relief by pressing head against pillow or pressing head with hands.
Neuralgia in right temple and orbit from getting feet wet.
Pain commences in back of head, rises and spreads over head and settles especially above right eye, with nausea, vomiting and chilliness ; is obliged to seek a dark room and lie perfectly still ; flushes of heat ; burning of soles of feet ; urine at first
scanty, later profuse and clear.
Frightfully severe headache, the only relief obtained by pressing back of head against headboard of bed.
Migraine with bilious vomiting, pains begin in morning, last till evening ; eyes feel as if they would be pushed out, < by motion.
Sick headache, with heat and redness.
Headaches : gastric ; myalgic ; rheumatic ; congestive ; from suppressed menses ; at change of life.
Congestion of blood to head, with ringing in ears ; flushes of heat ; accumulation of water in mouth.
Sanguineous apoplexy with vertigo, dimness of sight, vomiting, burning in stomach, distension of temporal veins.

Outer head

Soreness in spots, especially in temporal regions.
Distension of veins in temples ; feel sore when touched.
Head very painful to touch.

Sight and eyes

Diminished power of vision.
Dimness of eyes, with sensation as if hairs were in them.
Frequent obscuration of vision.
Retinal congestion, with flushed face and congestive headache.
Pupils dilated.
Yellowness of sclerotica, with icterus.
Burning dryness in eyes.
Pain over eyes.
Redness of eyes in morning.
Superficial injection of eyeball, with feeling of soreness.
Burning and watering of right eye, which is painful to touch, followed by coryza.
Acute conjunctivitis, with excessive redness and numerous ecchymoses in conjunctiva, tending toward trachoma, with moderate discharge and some pain in eye.
Catarrhal ophthalmia, granular lids.
Ophthalmia, followed by ulceration of cornea.
Copious lachrymation : following the burning and dryness ; tears hot ; with coryza.
Blepharadenitis : with a feeling of dryness under upper lid and accumulation of mucus in eye in morning ; blepharitis and catarrhal conditions of conjunctiva, with burning in edges of lids, < in afternoon ; dependent on stricture of lachrymal duct.
Hard swelling like scirrhus over eyebrows.
Neuralgia in and over right eye.

Hearing and ears

Beating, humming, with congestion of blood.
Hyperexcitation of auditory nerves ; painful sensitiveness, especially to sudden sounds ; sensation as if she were in a railroad car or in some vehicle which was moving and jarring her, with a feeling as if all about her moved rapidly and
confusedly ; desires to be held in order to remove this nervous vibratory sensation through body ; frequently in women in climaxis.
Earache with headache, singing in ears and vertigo.
Beating under ears, at irregular intervals, often only a couple of strokes.
Acute internal otitis.
Catarrhal affections of inner ear and Eustachian tube.
Throat affections causing deafness and otalgia.
Increased redness of external ear, with humming and roaring in ears from increased circulation of blood through aural structures.
Burning of ears, cheeks red.

Smell and nose

Loss of smell and taste.
Dislike to odor of syrup.
Fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing ; < right side.
Coryza, with dull, heavy pain over root of nose, and stinging sensation in nose ; severe pain at root of nose and in frontal sinuses, with dry cough and pain in chest.
Severe cold in head ; sneezing, severe fluid coryza, irritation and watering of eyes ; irritation of throat with severe cough.
Severe cold in head ; high fever ; acrid discharge from r. nostril produced soreness of lips and side of face.
Fluid coryza alternating with stoppage ; eyes painful to touch ; soreness in throat ; pain in chest, cough and finally diarrhœa. θ Influenza.
Watery, acrid coryza, rendering nose sore, with copious watering of right eye.
Coryza with diarrhœa, worse at night.
Smell in nose like roasted onion ; wheezing, whistling cough and finally diarrhœa, which relieves the cough. θ Influenza.
Rose cold with subsequent asthma ; sick and faint from odor of flowers.
Acute or chronic coryza, with loss of smell.
Severe catarrh in head, following a cold, for some weeks, with some irritation of throat and slight cough.
Sensation of stinging and tickling, with irritative swelling of parts, with or without free discharge ; yellowish or grayish-white discharge from nose ; headache in right hemisphere of brain, with drawing pain in back into neck ; bilious vomiting. θ Chronic
catarrh.
Ulcerative ozæna with epistaxis.
Chronic nasal catarrh with offensive discharges.
Nasal polypi.

Upper face

Distension of veins of face, with excessive redness, a feeling of stiffness and soreness of veins to touch.
Circumscribed redness of one or both cheeks.
Red cheeks : with burning in ears ; with cough.
Cheeks and hands livid. θ Typhoid pneumonia.
Circumscribed redness of cheeks in afternoon ; patient lies on his back ; pulse small and quick.
Twitching of cheeks toward eyes.
Neuralgia in and over right eye.
Neuralgia in upper jaw running up to nose, eye, ear, neck and side of head ; pain shooting and burning, cannot endure pain except by kneeling down and holding head tight to floor.
Stitches in left side of face, with pains in forehead.
Neuralgia in face for several years ; beginning of pain in upper jaw, running up to nose, eye, ear and side of head ; pain shooting and burning, cannot stand pain except by kneeling down and holding head tight to floor.

Lower face

Lips feel dry.
Swelling of lips toward evening.
Under lip burns, is swollen, hard and blistered ; blisters dry up and form crusts, which drop off.
Stiffness in articulation of jaws.

Teeth and gums

Toothache from picking teeth, or in hollow teeth when touched by food.
Grumbling toothache with pain in same side of head.
Pain in carious teeth after cold drinks.
Looseness of teeth (with salivation).
Spongy, bleeding, fungoid condition of gums.

Taste, speech, tongue

Loss of taste, with a burnt feeling on tongue.
Sweet things taste bitter, followed by burning in fauces.
White-coated tongue with slimy, fatty taste.
Red streak through middle of tongue.
Top of tongue burns as if scalded.
Tongue sore ; pains like a boil.
Red tongue, burns as if in contact with something hot.
Pricking in point of tongue.

Inner mouth

Fetid breath, clammy mouth, sticky teeth.
Sores on gums and roof of mouth.
Roof of mouth sore, uvula sore and burning.
White patches on mucous membrane of mouth, with salivation ; hypertrophy of thymus gland ; in a child suffering from hereditary syphilis.

Palate and throat

In evening after lying down, cough from tickling in throat.
Spasmodic constriction directly beneath lower jaws across throat, very distressing, lasting several hours.
Throat very dry, with tickling cough.
Burning in throat, especially after eating sweet things.
Roof of mouth and uvula sore and burning.
Feeling of swelling in throat on swallowing.
Pain with sensation of swelling, in throat, < right side, especially on swallowing.
Throat feels swollen as if to suffocation ; pain when swallowing ; aphonia.
Tonsillitis ; promotes suppuration.
Throat feels raw ; some difficulty in swallowing ; mouth and throat feel almost denuded of mucous membrane.
Heat in throat, better on inspiring cold air ; throat so dry it seems as if it would crack.
Dryness in throat, with soreness, swelling, and redness as in scarlet fever ; in one case of six years' standing, in another with hectic fever and cough.
General feeling of soreness throughout pharynx ; sensation as if burned or scalded by hot drinks ; dry, constricted feeling ; drinking did not moisten throat, mucous membrane felt as if it might crack ; pharynx very red and angry looking, highly inflamed.
Putrid sore throat.
Angina ; particularly a species of pharyngitis.
Ulcerated sore throat.
Tonsillitis, chronic, recurring frequently.
Suppuration of tonsils ; quinsy.
Burning in pharynx and œsophagus.
Intense heat and redness of throat, amounting to a burning sensation ; choking feeling when swallowing ; pearly coating on fauces and tonsils, < on right side ; right tonsil most inflamed. θ Diphtheritis.
Palate and fauces covered with a continuous coating of pearly fibrinous exudation.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Craving for he knows not what, with loss of appetite ; wants piquant things.
Loss of appetite with great weakness of digestion.
Aversion to butter.
Sugar tastes bitter and causes burning.

Eating and drinking

Sweet things aggravate, produce burning.
Soon after eating : feels empty ; difficult breathing, nausea, waterbrash, lassitude almost to fainting, cold sweat until 12 P. M., after a little food.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Hiccough whilst smoking.
Spasmodic eructations of flatus.
Frequent flatulent eructations of unpleasant odor, with disposition to vomit and paleness of face.
Pyrosis ; a rising of burning, corrosive fluid from stomach, for twenty years.
Nausea : with a burning at stomach ; with much spitting ; not > by vomiting ; with headache, chill and heat ; intense, in paroxysms, < when stooping, with flow of saliva ; followed by nettlerash ; with
heartburn ; followed by vomiting and sometimes diarrhœa ; periodic ; followed by sneezing ; craves food to quiet nausea.
Vomiting : of bitter water ; of sour acrid fluids ; of ingesta ; of worms ; preceded by anxiety ; with headache and burning in stomach ; head > afterward ; with prostration.
During vomiting, headache, burning in stomach with craving to eat.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Soreness and pressure in epigastrium < by eating.
Sudden attacks of constriction in pit of stomach as if suffocating.
Goneness with sick headache.
Sensation of emptiness in stomach : soon after eating ; with faint, feverish feeling.
Pressure in stomach.
Jerking in stomach as if from something alive.
Feeling of warmth and heat in stomach.
Burning in stomach ; with headache and chill.
Gastritis, with nausea, headache, chill and heat ; vomiting with severe, painful burning in stomach and intense thirst, red tongue, red and dry lips, hot and dry throat, tickling cough.
Pyrosis ; rising of burning, corrosive fluid with flatulence.
Great weakness of digestion, loss of appetite. θ Dyspepsia.
Burning sensation accompanied by pressure in epigastrium, coming on soon after lying down and compelling her to rise ; pains < at night, but they recurred at any hour when she resumed the recumbent position, though less severe in daytime ;
> sitting up ; appetite voracious ; bowels torpid ; peculiar drawing pains in shoulders and arms during sleep, so that when she awoke the fists were tightly clenched and flexed upon the sternal end of clavicle ; this cramping up of the arms always occurred during sleep
and was followed by a sense of lameness and weariness in the affected muscles. θ Neurosis of stomach.
A chronic inebriate ; had been drinking steadily for a couple of weeks, beer and whisky ; violent emetocatharsis ; Nux vomica did not relieve, Arsenic checked the bowels and relieved the intense thirst, but had no effect in quieting stomach ; very irritable and angry
at not being relieved ; everything she took in her stomach, even water, was instantly ejected ; about once in fifteen or twenty minutes a spasm of stomach, with gagging and coughing and ejection of some frothy mucus ; pain in chest and abdomen from the straining ; intense
burning extending from stomach up œsophagus to pharynx, which felt swollen and dry ; lying slightly turned on left side ; impossible for her to lie on right side, and when rising from lying down was seized with vertigo ; cheeks and hands livid ; believed she was soon to
die and was unwilling to be left alone.

Hypochondria

Heat, streaming from breast to liver.
Liver torpid ; skin yellow ; colic. θ Jaundice. θ Biliary
concretions.
Cough from affections of liver.
Pain in left hypochondrium, < from coughing, > from pressure and when lying on left side, very copious urination at night.
Violent stitches in splenetic region.

Abdomen and loins

Flatulent distension of abdomen in evening, with escape of flatus from vagina (os uteri being dilated).
Beating in abdomen.
Indurations in abdomen.
Cutting bellyache from right to left of iliac fossa, thence to rectum.
Soreness in abdomen < by eating.
Colic : followed by diarrhœa ; with torpor of liver.
Feeling as from hot water pouring from breast into abdomen, followed by diarrhœa.

Stools and rectum

Urging, but no evacuation, with sensation of a mass in lower part of rectum and discharge of offensive flatus only.
Alternate diarrhœa and constipation.
Hemorrhoids.
Stools : thin, fecal ; bright yellow ; undigested ; watery ; watery with much flatus, preceded by cutting pain.
Affection of breast always ended with a feeling as if hot water were poured from chest into abdomen which was followed by diarrheic stool.
Diarrhœa following coryza, pains in chest and cough.
Ineffectual urging to stool, then vomiting.
Frequent discharges of very offensive flatus.
Escape of much flatus upward and downward ; also with diarrhœa.

Urinary organs

Copious and frequent nocturnal urination, clear as water.
Very copious urine at night, with pain in left hypochondrium ; < from coughing ; > from pressure and lying on left side.
Dark-yellow urine, with icterus.
Urine scanty, high-colored, deposits reddish sediment on standing.

Male sexual organs

Seminal emissions.
Gleet ; old cases.
White oval patches on mucous membrane of mouth, particularly at angles, on mucous membranes of lips, on edge of tongue, on prepuce and glans penis ; fetid, cheesy secretions from glans penis, later obstinate inflammatory headache, with constant
congestions to head, transient heat, throbbing pain < from motion and stooping, extending upward from nape of neck, with swollen veins in temples. θ Syphilis.

Female sexual organs

Os uteri ulcerated ; fetid corrosive leucorrhœa.
Uterine polypi, or cancer.
Distension of abdomen in evening, and flatulent discharges per vagina, from os uteri, which was constantly open ; at same time a pain passing in rays from nape of neck to head.
Metrorrhagia occurring at climaxis ; blood bright red, clotted and frequently offensive ; sick-headache ; flushing of face ; face becomes scarlet, this high color passes off with faint, weak, sick feeling.
Pain in loins, extending through hypogastric and uterine region and down thighs, followed by appearance of menses (in cases of suppression).
Abdominal pains (at night) as if menses would appear.
Catamenia preceded by itching in axillæ.
Menses much more profuse than usual, with less pain and weakness in small of back, but with headache in right side of forehead and side of head, with sensation as if eyes would be forced out of head, < in right eye.
Menses : at right time, offensive smelling, bright red flow ; clots, like lumps of flesh ; later blood darker and less offensive ; scanty, headache from occiput to frontal region, head as if bursting, face red and hot ; too early, with a
discharge of black blood.
Dysmenorrhœa in feeble, torpid subjects, with tendency to congestion of lungs, liver or head.
Amenorrhœa in consequence of pulmonary disease ; hectic flush of face.
Climacteric disorders, especially flashes of heat and leucorrhœa.
Burning of palms of hands and soles of feet at climacteric period, compelling her to throw bedclothes off.
Painful enlargement of breasts at climacteric period.
Corrosive, fetid leucorrhœa at climacteric period ; it continues after menses cease.
Sharp, piercing pain in right breast, just beneath nipple ; very difficult to take a deep inspiration, with some dyspnœa.
Pain in right breast extends to shoulder and is so severe that it is with difficulty hand can be placed on top of head.
Stitches in mamma.
The nipples are sore and painful.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Threatened abortion with nausea, pains in loins, extending through epigastric and iliac regions and down thighs.
Mamma : stitches in both ; sore to touch under right nipple, and painful soreness of nipples.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Chronic dryness in throat, sensation of swelling in larynx and expectoration of thick mucus.
Aphonia with swelling in throat.
Dryness in throat with soreness, swelling and redness.
Tickling in throat in evening with cough and headache.
Tonsils and pharynx swollen ; sawing respiration ; expiration easier than inspiration ; cough dry and harsh, > sitting, < eating or lying down ; difficult expectoration of tough, glairy mucus ; inflammation of cervical glands. θ Œdema
laryngis.
Acute catarrhal laryngitis.
Violent dry cough ; sensation of burning behind sternum, craves cold water, which soon is vomited ; fauces dark-red, not swollen ; little or no fever ; headache, almost crazy ; eyes look inflamed, upper lid swollen ; open
air relieves pain ; vomits as soon as he drinks or eats ; sharp pain over right eye. θ Influenza.
Tracheal irritation secondary to heart disease.
Sensation of dryness, soreness and swelling in larynx and expectoration of thick mucus ; redness in throat ; stoppage of nose with headache across eyebrows. θ Chronic
catarrhal laryngitis.
A little girl, æt. 4, who had been subject to bronchial affections since birth ; lying on her mother's lap, countenance pale and livid, lips very cold, dyspnœa extreme while cough was muffled as if head had been enveloped in a blanket ; no expectoration, sibilant rales
remarkably shrill ; hands and feet quite cold ; half delirium. θ Laryngitis.
Chronic dryness of throat, sensation of swelling in larynx with expectoration of thin mucus ; aphonia, with swelling of larynx ; continual severe cough without expectoration, with pain in head and circumscribed redness of cheeks ; tormenting cough with sensation of
exhaustion. θ Croup.
Pseudo-membranous croup ; hoarse, muffled cough ; complete aphonia ; pulse 132 ; soft palate and fauces covered with a continuous coating of pearly fibrinous exudate ; hissing sound in larynx ; great difficulty in breathing ; child stretched back his
head and grasped his throat in his agony ; features dark and swollen.
Croup : catarrhal, with spasmodic, crowing painful cough and stridulous breathing, with whistling cough ; metallic sounding, as if coughing through a metallic tube.
Chronic dryness in throat and sensation of swelling in larynx and expectoration of thick mucus.
Chronic laryngitis, bronchitis and trachitis.
Pulmonary consumption.

Respiration

Excessive dyspnœa. θ Asthma.
Short, accelerated, constrained breathing ; extreme dyspnœa ; cheeks and hands livid ; compressible pulse. θ Typhoid pneumonia.
Asthma, especially after "rose cold," < from odors.
Painful, sighing respiration.
Inclination to take deep inspiration, which increases constriction of chest, and causes tearing pains in chest, < r. side.

Cough

Cough : dry, caused by tickling in throat or stomach ; evenings after lying down, from tickling in throat ; awakening him and not ceasing until he sits up in bed and passes flatus, upward and downward ; dry, with considerable tickling in
throat pit, and a crawling extending downward beneath sternum ; very severe, causing considerable pain beneath upper part of sternum, with no expectoration ; teasing, dry, hacking, with dryness in throat ; tormenting, with circumscribed redness of cheeks ; with
vomiturition ; with headache.
Continual severe cough, without expectoration, with pain in breast and circumscribed redness of cheeks, with coryza, followed by diarrhœa which relieves.
Wheezing, whistling cough ; metallic sounding ; stridulous breathing. θ Croup.
Severe cough occurring after whooping cough, when patient takes cold, which partakes of the spasmodic nature of whooping cough.
Whooping cough ; constricted spasmodic action across throat beneath jaws ; cough < at night with diarrhœa.
Severe cough for six weeks, following a cold ; coughed for hours at night, keeping whole house awake.
Severe, harassing cough, bloody sputa, with pain in occipital region.
After exposure, dry hard cough ; fever ; pain about shoulders and chest ; sore throat ; headache ; < coughing ; cough < by eructations of gas from stomach.
Distressing, dry, spasmodic, exhaustive coughs, especially in children ; < toward night, lying down, going into a cold room to sleep ; feeling of rawness and burning in bronchi.
For many years shortness of breath and cough, from taking cold the distress became severe and the attack resembled croup ; wheezy, whistling cough, beginning with a wheeze and ending with a whistle ; < at night when lying with head low.
Troublesome cough for a number of years ; excited by an irritation in region of bifurcation of bronchi ; coughs a long time to raise a little whitish-yellow phlegm, sometimes streaked with blood, after which she experiences great relief ; coughs day and night ; is
weak and emaciated. (Nitrate of Sanguinaria, 2d trit.)
Tough, rust-colored sputa in second and third stages of pneumonia.
Troublesome, harassing cough, with marked inflammatory action. θ Chronic bronchitis. θ Incipient
tuberculosis.
Breath and sputa smell badly even to patient.
Hæmoptysis during phthisis pulmonalis.
Sputa : thick, mucous ; rust-colored ; offensive, purulent.

Inner chest and lungs

Sharp, piercing pain midway between sternum and nipple, myalgic in character, the surface feels tender on pressure.
Pain beneath sternum and in right breast.
Intense burning pain between breasts, < in right side, in afternoon.
Burning sensation under sternum.
Very severe pain in right side of chest and hypochondriac region.
Hot, burning streaming in right side of chest commencing below right arm and clavicle and extending to hepatic region.
Sharp stitches in right side of chest.
Slowly shooting pain in right chest about seventh rib ; acute stitches in right breast.
Pain in right chest to shoulder, can only with difficulty place hand on top of head.
Stitches in lower part of left breast to shoulder.
Pain shooting from lower part of left chest to left shoulder.
Pain in breast with periodic cough.
Burning and pressing in breast, then heat through abdomen and diarrhœa.
Constant pressure and heaviness in whole upper part of chest, with difficulty of breathing.
Cramps in chest.
Pain in breast : with cough and expectoration ; with dry periodic cough.
Subacute pulmonary congestion in a lady with florid complexion and full habit, æt. 50 ; was much troubled with general flushings.
Dyspnœa, short, accelerated, constrained breathing ; speech ceases to be free ; sputa becomes tenacious, rustcolored, and is expectorated with much difficulty ; position of patient is on his back ; not much pain in chest unless pleuræ are involved, then
burning stitching pulse quick and small ; face and extremities inclined to be cold or hands and feet burning hot, with circumscribed redness and burning heat of cheeks, especially in afternoon. θ Pulmonary
affections. θ Pneumonia.
Pneumonia in second and third stages ; with dulness on percussion ; bronchial respiration, with red or gray hepatization and infiltration of parenchyma.
Pneumonia ; rust-colored sputum ; distressing dyspnœa ; hands and feet burning hot or very cold ; sometimes, even before amount of hepatization will account for it, there is failure of the heart's action ; heart weak and
irregular in action ; weak, faint feeling about heart ; patient is faint ; is covered with sweat and suffers from nausea.
Pneumonia, with cold hands and blue nails.
Typhoid pneumonia with very difficult respiration cheeks and hands livid ; pulse full, soft, vibrating and easily compressed.
Pneumonia : left lung particularly affected ; with heart disease.
Catarrhal irritation in chest ; night sweats ; after a cold, several months previously.
Sick an indefinite period with lung trouble ; complete hepatization of one lung ; fever ; prostration ; night sweats.
Loose, stringy, sometimes flocculent expectoration, attending a severe cough, which seemed to rack whole frame during the paroxysm ; darting pains through both lungs, < in apex of left lung ; cough < at night in bed ; evening exacerbations of fever, with burning of
palms of hands and soles of feet ; debilitating night sweats ; paroxysms of excruciating frontal headaches ; dulness of percussion in left supraand infra-clavicular regions ; fine whistling and long expiratory sounds in apex of left lung ; bronchial tubes in middle
and lower parts of both lungs contained much mucus ; pulse 114, easily compressible ; anorexia ; insomnia ; thirst ; urine diminished, changeable in color ; marked emaciation ; cheeks hollow ; limbs and body small and bony ; eyes sunken, glassy. θ Incipient
phthisis following amenorrhœa.
Great emaciation ; bloodless skin ; æt. 15, had never menstruated, but twelve months ago there was a slight discharge with pain in loins, at which time she commenced to fail ; severe, painful cough, with profuse expectoration of thick, stringy, yellowish-white mucus, <
at night ; night sweats ; chest sore to pressure ; respiratory murmur faint and covered in some parts by mucous rales ; bronchial tubes seemed filled with mucus ; shortness of breath ; headache ; evening fever ; burning in feet ; dryness of
throat ; anorexia ; pulse 100, soft and quick ; alternate constipation and diarrhœa ; high-colored, offensive smelling urine ; sleeplessness ; shooting, erratic pains through body and especially in chest ; great exhaustion. θ Anemia
with amenorrhœa.
For several years cough, < in Summer ; a year ago had pneumonia which left a suspicious permanent cough ; cannot lie down ; face bloated ; pupils somewhat dilated ; pulse very rapid and weak ; night sweats ; diarrhœa ; pain in calves of
legs ; pain in chest, and with every respiratory effort there is rattling in chest followed by cough ; paroxysms of cough with profuse offensivesmelling expectoration ; the breath is offensive, even to himself ; retching with the cough, throbbing and sensation of
tightness in head ; spasmodic belching before and after cough ; heat continues for a while after the cough, followed by yawning and stretching.
Phthisis florida ; hectic ; fever usually comes at about 2 or 4 P. M., cheeks having a bright circumscribed flush ; cough usually dry at first and seems to be excited by tickling or crawling in larynx and upper portion of chest, probably in trachea and perhaps in beginning
of bronchial tubes ; great deal of burning fulness in upper part of chest, as if it were too full of blood, which it really is ; sharp stitching pains, especially about right lung and in region of nipple, probably myalgic ; muscles of chest are sore with this pain ; great
dyspnœa.
Tuberculosis pulmonalis ; breath and sputa smell badly, disagreeable to patient himself ; before and after coughing, belching of wind ; after cough, heat ; after heat, gaping and stretching ; circumscribed redness of
cheeks ; diarrhœa ; night sweats ; pain in lower extremities.
Beginning of galloping consumption, cough and violent fever, with circumscribed redness of cheeks ; soreness to touch of veins in temples.
Hæmoptoe during incipient phthisis, especially in women suffering from amenorrhœa, or during and after climaxis.
Vicarious hemorrhage from lungs from suppressed menstruation in a young consumptive.
Hæmoptysis during phthisis pulmonalis.
Syphilitic pulmonary inflammation.
Chronic pneumonia (rivals Sulphur and Phosphor.).
Hydrothorax ; asthma ; pleurisy ; intercostal myalgia.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Painful stitches or pressing pain in region of heart.
Palpitation before vomiting, with great weakness.
Surging of blood and racing palpitation, with dry and burning skin.
Irregularity of heart's action and pulse, with coldness, insensibility, etc.
Weak feeling about heart.
Pulse : hard, frequent ; small and quick ; irregular, with great weakness.
Extreme reduction of force and frequency of pulse, together with great irregularity of action.
Metastasis of rheumatism (or gout) to heart, caused by outward applications in inflammatory rheumatism.

Outer chest

Burning in sternum.
Severe soreness under right nipple, < from touch.

Neck and back

Pain in nape of neck.
Rheumatic pains in nape of neck, shoulders and arms.
Soreness of nape of neck on being touched.
Dull pain along inner edge of left scapula, worse from breathing.
Rheumatic pains in neck, shoulders and arms, < at night.
Shifting pains in back, < when drawing a long breath.
Pain in sacrum, from lifting.
Lumbago, from lifting ; or, myalgia of great muscles of back.
Soreness down muscles of back ; pains shifting about ; feels pain more when drawing long breath.

Upper limbs

Itching in axillæ before catamenia.
Rheumatic pain in right arm and shoulder ; < at night, on turning in bed ; cannot raise arm.
Pain in right deltoid muscle of long standing ; < from lifting ; not felt when swinging arms to and fro ; < at night when turning in bed, it wakes him ; neither warmth nor weather influences it ; it gives him no rest by
day or night ; is not relieved by motion.
Pain in top of right shoulder.
Pain in right shoulder and upper part of right arm, < at night on turning in bed.
Pain confined to shoulder, shoulder-cap and cervical region ; neck stiff, with great pain on movement ; trapezius sore under pressure and painful at every movement of head or shoulder ; deltoid and biceps very tender to pressure, and so sensitive by use that it was
impossible to raise arm from side. θ Rheumatism.
Right arm hung at her side or lay on her lap as helpless as if there had been a fracture of humerus ; could not raise it an inch without assistance. θ Rheumatism.
A sensation of coldness in body and right arm, which no amount of clothing could remove ; swelling of right arm between shoulder and elbow joint ; complete inability to raise arm from lap, although lateral motion could be made ; tenderness and soreness of right trapezius
and deltoid muscles. θ Rheumatism.
Aching in ball of right thumb, which is swollen, pain extending around wrist and back of hand, most severe in ball of thumb ; < since hot weather set in ; could not use hand properly from pain and weakness in it.
Burning of palms ; redness of hands and severe burning ; lividity of hands. θ Pneumonia.
Fungoid growth between second and third metacarpal bones, protruding about a quarter of an inch out of palm.
Stiffness of finger joints.
Ulceration of roots of finger nails on both hands.
Panaritium, first right then left fingers.

Lower limbs

Rheumatic pain in left hip ; also inside of right thigh.
Bruiselike pain in thigh, alternating with pressure and burning in breast.
Pain through hips, extending down right limb.
Wandering pains, < at night.
Knees are stiff.
Left leg and foot swelled in evening, with violent burning pain, did not know where to lay limb ; limb externally cold ; < until 12 P. M.
Indolent ulcer on right shin, with dirty granulations and dry sharp-cut edges, brownish thin discharge, not sensitive, no pain.
Sharp pain in right ankle and great toe joint.
Burning in soles of feet, < in bed.
Cold feet, afternoon.
Ingrowing toe nail, unhealthy granulations, purulent discharge (lotion).

Limbs in general

Burning of hands and feet, < at night.
Rheumatic pains < in places least covered with flesh ; on touching painful part pain vanishes and appears in some other part.
Rheumatism in all joints, with swelling and spasmodic pain.
Rheumatic pains in limbs, with stiffness and rigidity.
Acute, inflammatory and arthritic rheumatism.

Rest. position. motion

Lying still : > rheumatism.
Lying down : cough from tickling pressure in epigastrium ; cough <.
Lying with head low : cough <.
Lies upon back.
Lying on left side : pain in hypogastrium >.
Slightly turned on left side : spasm of stomach >.
Cannot lie on right side : spasm of stomach.
Must lie down : headache.
Sitting up : pain in epigastrium ; cough >.
Stooping : nausea < ; throbbing pain in head <.
Must kneel down and hold head tight to floor ; neuralgia in jaw and face.
Rising from sitting posture : frontal headache with vertigo.
Motion : pulsations < ; throbbing pain in head <.
Turning in bed : pain in arm and shoulder.
Turning head quickly : vertigo.
Cannot raise arm from side : rheumatism.
Swinging arm to and fro : pain in arm is not felt.
Exercise : < headache.

Nerves

Great weakness ; palpitation of heart ; fainting weakness.
Lassitude, torpor, languor, not disposed to move or make any mental exertion, < in damp weather.
Limbs weak while walking in open air.
Lameness of right arm.
Chronic paralysis of right arm.
Convulsive rigidity of limbs.

Sleep

Sleepless at night, wakes with fright, as if he would fall.
Dreams : of sailing at sea ; of business matters ; frightful.
Drowsiness causing mental and bodily indolence.

Time

Morning : headache begins, < during day, lasts until evening ; nausea ; redness of eyes ; accumulation of mucus in eye.
Morning and lasting four to six hours : neuralgia.
Forenoon : headache commences, < until sunset.
Afternoon : headache ; burning of eyelids < ; circumscribed redness of cheeks ; pain in left breast ; cold feet ; fever.
At 2 or 4 P. M. : fever usually comes on.
Evening : cough from tickling ; violent distension of abdomen ; tickling in throat ; left leg and foot swollen ; shivering in back.
Night : pain in temples < ; pain in head > ; coryza and diarrhœa < ; pains in epigastrium < ; copious urination ; abdominal pains ; cough < ; shortness of breath < ; sweats ; expectoration < ; pains in neck < ; wandering pains < ; burning
of hands and feet < ; sleepless ; Rhus poisoning <.
Until 12 P. M. : cold sweat ; swelling of left leg and foot.

Temperature and weather

Hot weather : pain in thumb <.
Open air : headache > ; pain in chest > ; limbs weak while walking.
Damp weather : lassitude <.
Cold room : cough <.
Cold air : inspiring, heat in throat >.
Cold drinks : cause pain in carious teeth.
Cold water : craves.

Fever

Chill with headache, nausea, pain under scapula on motion ; shivering in back, < evening in bed.
Coldness of feet in afternoon, with painful, sore tongue ; stiffness of knee and finger joints.
Shaking chill.
Flushes of heat.
Slight flushes of heat, followed by chills, then face flushed, hands hot, qualmish feeling all over ; lassitude.
Heat flying from head to stomach.
Burning heat ; rapidly alternating with chill and shivering.
Afternoon fever with circumscribed red cheeks ; fever 2 to 3 P. M., daily.
Paroxysms of fever in afternoon, with circumscribed redness of cheeks ; cough and expectoration.
Burning of palms of hands and soles of feet, compelling him to throw bedclothes off his feet to cool them ; these paroxysms generally come on in afternoon or evening.
Slight chill, violent fever, headache and delirium.
Copious sweat ; cold sweat.
Fevers from pulmonary, hepatic or gastric inflammation ; nervous fever ; marsh fever ; hectic fever ; scarlet fever (after Bell.) ; typhus, with characteristic headache.

Attacks, periodicity

Alternate : diarrhœa and constipation ; pain in thigh and pressure in breast ; burning heat and chill and shivering.
Periodical headache.
Every few minutes : violent retching.
Every fifteen or twenty minutes : spasm of stomach.
Every day : for five or six days, neuralgia ; fever 2 to 3 P. M.
Every third day for six weeks : sick headache.
Every seventh day : headache.
Every eight days for nine years : attacks of headache and vomiting.
Every two weeks : catamenia ; sick headache.
For six weeks : severe cough.
For years : distressing sick headache ; neuralgia in face.
For many years : shortness of breath and cough.
For six years : dryness in throat.
For twenty years : pyrosis.

Locality and direction

Right : headache over eye ; neuralgia in and over eye ; headache in temple ; headache < ; neuralgia in orbit ; catarrhal discharge from side of nose ; tearing in temple ; pains from eye through back part of head ; pain from occiput to
temporal bone ; burning and watering of eye ; coryza < ; headache in hemisphere of brain ; pain in throat ; diphtheritis < ; pain in breast ; sharp pain over eye ; pain in chest < ; burning pain in side of chest ; stitches in side of chest ;
shooting pain in side of chest ; stitches in breast ; rheumatic pain in arm and shoulder ; pain in deltoid muscles ; pain in top of shoulder ; arm helpless with rheumatism ; coldness in arm ; swelling of arm ; aching in ball of thumb ; pain in
thigh ; indolent ulcer on shin ; sharp pain in ankle and great toe joint ; lameness of arm ; chronic paralysis of side.
Left : violent pain over whole side of head ; rheumatism in shoulder ; pressing pain settling over eye ; stitches in side of face ; pain in hypochondrium ; stitches in lower part of breast ; pain from chest to shoulder ; pneumonia ; darting
pain in apex of lung ; dulness of percussion in supra and infraclavicular regions ; pain on inner edge of scapula ; rheumatic pain in hip ; leg and foot swollen.
From right : to left ; cutting bellyache in iliac fossa ; panaritium.

Sensations

As if paralyzed ; as if events that transpired in her dreams were not of hours' but of weeks' and months' duration ; as of some hard substance in stomach ; as if forehead would burst ; as if head were drawn forward ; as if head must burst ; as if
eyes would be pressed out ; as of a band across forehead ; as of an electrical current shooting through head ; pain like drawing a rope on a windlass as tight as you can get it ; as if temples and scalp were alive with irrepressible pulsation ; as if hairs were in
eyes ; as if she were in a railroad car or in some vehicle which was moving and jarring her, and as if all about her moved rapidly and confusedly ; tongue as if burnt ; tip of tongue as if scalded ; tongue as if in contact with something hot ; throat as if
swollen ; throat so dry it seems as if it would crack ; pharynx as if burnt or scalded ; constriction in pit of stomach as if suffocating ; as of something alive in stomach ; as of hot water pouring from breast into abdomen ; as of a mass in lower part of
rectum ; as if menses would appear ; cough as if head were enveloped in a blanket ; throat and larynx as if swollen ; as if upper part of chest were too full of blood.
Pain : in forehead ; in forehead and cheek bones ; in forepart of head, shoulders, chest and stomach ; over right eye ; in head in spots ; like a flash of lightning in back part of head ; in head in rays ; from right occiput to right temporal
bone ; over eyes ; in chest ; in teeth ; in carious teeth ; in left hypochondrium ; in loins through hypogastric and uterine region down thighs ; in loins ; about shoulders and chest ; beneath sternum and right breast ; in breast ; in
calves ; in lower extremities ; in nape of neck ; in back ; in sacrum ; in right deltoid muscle ; in top of right shoulder and upper part of arm ; from ball of thumb around wrist and back of hand ; through hips and down right limb ; under scapula.
Frightfully severe headache.
Violent pain : over upper portion of whole left side of head ; in temple and vertex ; from occipital region over head settling over right eye.
Severe pain : in head ; at root of nose and in frontal sinuses ; in right breast, extends to shoulder ; in right side of chest.
Sharp pain : in right ankle and great toe joint.
Tearing : in right temple.
Throbbing, lancinating pains : through brain.
Darting pains : through both lungs.
Sharp, piercing pain : in right breast, midway between sternum and right nipple.
Cutting pain : from right to left iliac fossa, thence to rectum.
Beating pain : in head.
Shooting pains : from one temple to other ; from left chest to left shoulder.
Wandering pain : in head.
Stitches : in left side of face ; violent, in splenetic region ; in mamma ; sharp, in right chest about seventh rib ; in right breast ; in lower part of left breast to shoulder ; about right lung and nipple ; in region of heart.
Burning stitching : in chest.
Violent burning pain : in left leg and foot.
Intense burning pain : between breasts.
Burning distress : in stomach.
Burning : in stomach ; of right eye ; in edges of lids ; of ears ; of under lip ; of uvula ; in throat ; in œsophagus and pharynx ; of palms ; behind sternum ; under sternum ; streaming in right side of chest extending to
hepatic region ; in breast ; of hands and feet ; in soles.
Burning dryness : in eyes.
Stinging sensation : in nose.
Soreness : in spots on head ; in throat ; of tongue ; of roof of mouth ; of uvula ; throughout pharynx ; in epigastrium ; in abdomen ; of nipples ; in larynx ; under right nipple ; of nape of neck ; down muscles of
back ; of right trapezius and deltoid muscles.
Bruise-like pain : in thigh.
Pricking : in point of tongue.
Neuralgia : in and over right eye ; at internal superior angle of right orbit ; in right temple and orbit ; in upper jaw, nose, eye, ear, neck and side of head.
Rheumatic pain : in head ; in neck and shoulders ; in nape of neck ; shoulders and arms ; in right arm and shoulder ; in left hip ; in right thigh ; in places least covered with flesh ; in all points.
Drawing pain : from back into neck ; in shoulders and arms.
Pressive pain : in forehead ; from nape of neck over head and eyes ; in region of heart.
Dull pain : in head ; along inner edge of left scapula.
Grumbling pain : in teeth.
Aching : in ball of right thumb.
Dull, heavy feeling : in stomach ; over root of nose.
Heaviness : in chest.
Pressure : in epigastrium ; in stomach ; in breast ; in upper part of chest.
Spasmodic constriction : beneath lower jaw, across throat.
Constriction : in pit of stomach.
Tightness : in head.
Stiffness : in articulation of jaw ; of finger joints ; of knees.
Heat : in throat ; in stomach ; streaming from head to liver.
Tenderness : of right trapezius.
Rawness : of throat.
Dryness : under upper lid ; of lips ; of throat.
Beating : under ears ; in abdomen.
Jerking : in stomach.
Throbbing : in temporal arteries ; of every pulse in body.
Pulsations : in head ; in right temple.
Great weakness and goneness : in stomach.
Faint feeling : about heart.
Weak feeling : about heart.
Itching : in axilla.
Coldness : in body and right arm.

Tissues

Languid circulation, limbs cold, skin pallid, sensitive to atmospheric changes.
Veins distended, feel sore.
Surging of blood.
Red or gray hepatization of lungs.
Polypi, nasal and uterine.
Carbuncles ; warts ; fungous excrescences.
Roundish or oval, whitish or raised patches of mucous membrane of nose, mouth, prepuce and anus.
Polypi of larynx and nasal fossæ.
Pains in places where bones are least covered with flesh.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : temporal veins painfully sensitive ; head very painful ; eye painful ; nipples sore ; soreness of nape of neck ; pain vanishes and appears some other part.
Pressure : hard upon eye > ; > headache ; pain in hypogastrium > ; surface of chest tender ; chest sore ; deltoid and biceps tender.
Pressing back up against something hard : > headache.
Rubbing Rhus poisoning with something rough >.
Slightest jar : < headache.
Lifting : pains in sacrum ; lumbago.

Skin

Heat and dryness of skin.
Itching and nettlerash with nausea.
Icterus, eyes yellow, stools white, dark yellow urine, during prevailing intermittent fever.
Prickling sensation of warmth spreading over body.
Eruption on face of young women, with menstrual troubles, especially deficiency.
Rhus poisoning ; small pimples coalescing into blisters size of a split pea, filled with yellow watery fluid, with intense itching ; < at night after 12 P. M. ; the only relief he can get is to rub it with something rough, until blisters are open.
Fungous growths.
Scaly eruptions ; carbuncles.
Old indolent ulcers, with callous borders and ichorous discharge ; dirty granulations, dry, sharp-cut edges.

Stage of life, constitution

C. P., æt. 15 months ; cold in head.
Boy, æt. 1 1/2, of syphilitic parents ; patches in mouth.
Girl, æt. 4, subject to bronchial affections since birth ; laryngitis.
Boy, æt. 5 ; croup.
Girl, æt. 10, lively disposition ; influenza.
R., æt. 12, suffering six weeks ; cough.
Girl, æt. 15, of French extraction, nervo-lymphatic temperament ; anemia.
Girl, æt. 16, lymphatic temperament, quiet disposition, menses appeared once, a year ago, since then absent ; incipient phthisis.
Boy, æt. 18, scrofulous diathesis ; diphtheritis.
Miss F., æt. 25, suffering since childhood ; sick headaches.
Officer, æt. 26 ; syphilis.
Woman, æt. 30 ; headaches.
S., æt. 30 ; cold in head.
Mrs. M. L. S., æt. 30, a chronic inebriate, after drinking inordinately for several weeks ; gastric derangement.
Woman, æt. 34, brunette, single ; influenza.
Woman, æt. 35 ; migraine.
Miss S. C., æt. 38 ; catarrh in head.
Lady, æt. 47, spare habit, suffering with heart disease ; tracheal irritation.
Mrs. F., æt. 48, sanguino-bilious temperament, woman of much energy and refinement ; neurosis of stomach.
Mrs. H., æt. 50, fleshy, nearly past the climacteric, suffering for years ; sick headache.
Lady, æt. 50, florid complexion, full habit of body ; pulmonary congestion.
Mrs. S., æt. 50 ; cough.
Mrs. P., æt. 55, blue eyes, dark-brown hair, nervo-sanguine temperament, full habit, somewhat corpulent, suffering fifteen years ; sick headache.
Mrs. C., æt. 59 ; œdema of glottis.
Man, æt. 60, full habit, ruddy complexion, full chest, afflicted many years ; cough.
Young lady, of rheumatic tendency ; rheumatism of arm.

Relations

It antidotes : Opium (dynamic effects).
Compatible : Bellad . (scarlatina).
Compare : Bellad., Iris, Paullinia and Mellilot . in headaches ; Ant. tart., Chelid., Phosphor., Sulphur and Verat. vir . in pneumonia.

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

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

Generalities

Blood root is an old domestic remedy. A great many eastern farmers' wives will not go into the winter without blood root in the house.

In the cold winter days, when the coryzas come on, a "cold" in the head, throat and chest, then they get the blood root ready and make a tea of it. With them it is a routine remedy for "colds." They give it to combat all complaints, and there is no doubt but that even in this crude form it does break up "colds," because the provings show its relation to chest troubles and "colds" that go to the chest.

Head

Periodic headaches, when the headache comes once in seven days it begins in the morning on waking or wakes the patient up.

It begins in the occiput and travels upward and settles over the right eye and in the right temple. It gets worse during the day and is aggravated by light, so that he is driven into a dark room and compelled to lie down.

Vomiting comes on and the vomited matter is bile, slime, bitter substance and food, and then comes relief of the pain. The headaches are, relieved from passing flatus up or down. If the patient suffers when he goes to bed with hot palms and soles, so that he must put them out of bed, this is an additional striking feature.

Take an individual who has missed his chronic headache, by some means, for a considerable time, but since then he has become increasingly sensitive to cold, and "colds" settle in the nose, throat and bronchial tube and these parts feel as if on fire, with rawness and burning; the expectoration is thick, tenacious mucus; disturbance of the belly, with much belching, and the belching is especially noticed after a violent attack of coughing.

It is not a very long acting remedy. When a periodic sick headache is interrupted by Sanguinaria, if a deeper drug, an antipsoric, is not given, the headache will return or something worse will come on, as Sanguinaria does not go deep into the nature of the case. I remember a case in which the patient missed his Sanguinaria headache and an epithelioma developed, which was cured by Phosphorus.

I am convinced that if Phosphorus had been given at the end of the attack the cancer would not have developed, as Phosphorus was his constitutional remedy. If a chronic sick headache is interrupted the patient will tend to phthisis.

Chest

Chest troubles come on and grow worse and worse. Its ability to palliate phthisis is very well known.

A patient much debilitated with bronchial catarrh; susceptible to cold, to every change in the weather, from change to damp weather, to every draft, to change of clothing; always taking new "cold."

There is burning in the chest behind the sternum; thick, tough, ropy expectoration; spasmodic cough, and every cough ends in belching; eructations of gas; empty eructations. If to the burning in the chest, the severe pains in the larynx and trachea when talking, and cough ending in belching, you add heat in the palms and, soles, Sanguinaria will patch him up and mitigate the trouble.

Many such cases get Sulphur, but to their destruction. There is a class of remedies that suits these phthisical patients better than Sulphur, Silicea and Graphites ; remedies such as Pulsatilla, Sanguinaria, Senecio gracilis and Coccus cacti, which palliate, mitigate his sufferings, and may even build him up so that he could take a medium potency of a deep remedy.

But the deeper remedies ought to be avoided if the vital force is low, if the body is too much damaged to be repaired. Hahnemann warned against the use of Phosphorus in such cases of deficient vitality. Sanguinaria is a surface remedy; it does excellent palliation.

Nose and throat

Catarrhal conditions of nose and throat, especially those due to colds and to poisonous plans; also rue colds.

The Sanguinaria patient has "rose colds" in June. Sensitive to flowers and odors; subjects with bay fever. Hay fever patients with burning in the nose, in the throat, as if dry; as if the mucous membrane would crack open.

Dryness and burning in the larynx, with hoarseness; dryness and burning throughout the chest, with asthma; associated with burning of the palms and soles. Examination shows the palms to be dry, wrinkled and hot to the touch; so, also, the soles, where the skin is thickened and indurated. Corns that burn; the toes burn and the patient puts the feet out of bed for relief.

Head again

When the headache is present it seems to be a general congestive headache; although beginning in the morning, coming up the back and extending to the right eye, the whole head is hot and aches.

Sulphur, Silicea and Sanguinaria have periodic weekly headaches. Arsenicum has a headache every two weeks. Not that these remedies will not cure other headaches, for Sanguinaria has also a headache every three days. The majority of headaches coming every two weeks are cured by Arsenicum or greatly mitigated in broken down constitutions. The attempt to cure a chronic sick headache should be made before the senile decline.

"Pulsations in the head with bitter vomiting; aggravated by motion."

The headache is generally aggravated by motion, but not so strikingly as in Bryonia. When the Sanguinaria headache increases. towards the afternoon or night, it becomes so severe he must go to bed; and the head becomes sore, and then a step or jar is extremely painful. A severe headache is likely to be disturbed by light, noise, motion, etc.

"Headache as if forehead would burst with chill, and burning in stomach."

"Headache over right eye."

This is a characteristic feature.

"Periodic sick headache; begins in the morning, increases during the day, lasts till evening; head feels as if it must burst, or as if eyes would be pushed out; throbbing, lancinating pains through brain, worse on the right side, especially in the forehead and vertex; followed by chills, nausea, vomiting of food or bile; must lie down or remain quiet; ameliorated by sleep."

Some of these things are not found in every case, but they all go to make up a Sanguinaria headache.

Pains

All sorts of neuralgic pains; cutting, tearing, lacerating pains; as if the muscles were torn, or put on a stretch.

Tearing pains anywhere, neuralgic or rheumatic. Pains about the scalp, but more particularly about the shoulder and neck; stiff neck; cannot turn over in bed; cannot raise the arm, though he can swing it back and forth.

Pain streaks up the neck; pain in the deltoid. It prefers the right side, but also cures the left side. Rheumatic pains in the right shoulder so that ho cannot raise the arm, and all the muscles of the neck and back of the neck become involved; stiff neck. If the pain comes on in the day it increases as the day advances to night. Complaints are worse at night in Sanguinaria.

A patient comes to you after exposure to cold; he cannot raise the arm; it hangs by his side; pain worse at night in bed, worse turning over (as he uses the shoulder muscle to turn over). It is probably in the deltoid, but you need not speculate on the tissues involved.

It competes with Ferrum. All red-faced, highly-flushed people, who cannot raise the arm and have pain which is worse in the daytime, not night, and ameliorated by slow motion need Ferrum. Sanguinaria is not relieved by motion; it is aggravated by such motion as calls the arm into use. Ferrum has relief from slow motion, aggravated from rapid motion and the pain comes in the daytime.

While Ferrum has a uniformly red, plethoric face, Sanguinaria has a pale face. In the chest complaints Sanguinaria has a circumscribed red spot over the malar bones, such as seen in hectic patients.

Headache from stomach disturbances, overeating, rich food, drinking wine. Almost as useful as Nux in old drinkers. Those who disorder their stomachs and weaken their digestion by beer drinking; they cannot eat; vomiting of even a teaspoonful of water.

No food or drink stays on the stomach. Headaches associated with such troubles. Vomiting and diarrhea with complaints.

Catarrhal affections are prominent.

Chronic catarrh of the throat apparent thickening of the mucous membranes of the throat. Nose and pharynx fill with mucus. He hawks it out; there is a dry burning sensation, but the burning is most marked every time he takes a fresh cold.

Acridity of discharges is another feature. Acrid mucus forms in the nose, causing burning in the throat. Acrid, hot fluids eructated from the stomach, excoriating the throat and mouth. The diarrhea is accompanied by an acrid watery stool; especially in infants; the nates become raw and red. This burning extends all through the bowels; burning in the abdomen and stomach in old gastric troubles; vomiting of even a teaspoonful of water with burning; old gastric irritation; dyspepsia; all sorts of disorders of the stomach.

Tongue red and burns as if in contact with something hot. Burning in pharynx and oesophagus, burning in roof of mouth. Tonsillitis with burning.

"Heat in throat, ameliorated by inspiring cold air; throat so dry it seems as if it would crack."

This burning excoriated feeling applies to all the mucous membranes affected.

Patient suddenly taken w bed with a chill; burning in the chest symptoms of pneumonia; rusty expectoration; violent cough; every cough felt as a concussion at the bifurcation of the trachea; as if a knife were in the parts; as if torn asunder; and after the cough copious, loud, empty eructations. No other remedy has this.

"Nausea with burning at the stomach, with much spitting."

Nausea not relieved by vomiting. Keeps on vomiting and retching. Burns as if on fire. Arsenic is often given by mistake, because of the great burning.

"Vomiting of bitter water; of sour, acrid fluids; of ingesta; of worms; preceded by anxiety; with headache and burning in stomach; head relieved afterwards; with prostration."

Such symptoms occur in headache, disordered stomach, sour stomach. The sour stomach is manifested by sour eructations or sour vomiting. A patient often speaks of "a sour stomach," and you must find out whether be means sour eructations or sour vomiting.

He says he "spits up" sour food.

With the headache and many complaints Sanguinaria has a faintness; like a hunger, yet not for food. A sinking, faint, "all gone," empty feeling. It is like Phosphorus with its "hungry headache."

Psorinum leads all others in "hungry headaches," but Psorinum wants to eat and cannot get enough.

Sanguinaria has a hunger, but it is not for food; aversion at the thought and smell of food. Psorinum can eat a wolf meal, and so can Phosphorus. It is a false hunger with the headache in Sanguinaria.

"Burning in stomach; with headache and chill."

Belching up of acrid fluids in asthma; hay asthma. Sanguinaria palliates asthma associated with stomach disorders. Do not forget Nux in asthma from stomach troubles.

Liver complaints; pains and aches and sense of fullness. Bilious trouble described in general terms. It seems as if the liver makes an enormous quantity of bile, but there is a gastro-duodenal catarrh, so that the bile is regurgitated into the stomach instead of going down, and it is eructated as bitter, green, yellow fluid; vitiated bile.

This is a peculiar thing. If you watch a chronic Sanguinaria patient you will notice that the stomach will be disordered for a week; spitting up bile much flatulence; sour hot eructations; then all at once this will disappear, and a diarrhoea, which fairly floods him, comes on suddenly; a bilious, liquid, gushing stool. Natrum sulph., Sanguinaria, Pulsatilla and Lycopodium cure this alternation of diarrhoea and constipation.

"Os uteri ulcerated; foetid, corrosive leucorrhoea."

"Distension of abdomen in the evening and flatulent discharges by vagina from os uteri, which was constantly open; at same time a pain passing in rays from nape of neck to head."

"Chronic dryness in throat, sensation of swelling in the larynx and expectoration of thick mucus when associated with dryness, rawness, burning and smarting."

"Whooping cough; constricted, spasmodic across throat beneath jaws; cough worse at night with diarrhoea."

Cough worse at night with diarrhoea is the feature this remedy is prescribed for.

"Severe cough occurring after whooping cough when patient takes cold, which partakes of the spasmodic nature of whooping cough."

An adult takes cold and has a spasmodic cough, like whooping cough. He says it is a stomach cough, because there is a gagging with it. In all there is burning and diarrhoea.

"Distressing, dry, spasmodic, exhaustive coughs, especially in children; worse towards night, lying down, going into a cold room to. sleep, feeling of rawness and burning in bronchi."

The trachea seems so sore, and it is sore; a bolus of food passing down the oesophagus can be plainly felt; he can outline the part where the food passes.