Sticta Pulmonaria stict.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

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Region

Nerves. Membranes: Nose. Chest. Bronchi. Joints. Shoulder (R).

Worse

Night. Lying down. Motion. Change of temperature.

Better

Free discharges. Open air.

General

Nervous, stiff and rheumatic; develops catarrhs. Painful, dry mucous membranes. Diagonal pains.

Particulars

Must talk. Seems to be floating. Burning eyelids. Pressure or stuffy fulness at root of nose; blows it without relief. Coryza; that dries up again. Hay fever. Tickling high up in pharynx. Incessant, dry, hacking cough; prevents sleep; < coughing and inspiration; croupy; < if tired; after measles. Numbness in air-passages. Bronchitis. Sore, stiff neck; pains to shoulder. Restless hands and feet. Rheumatism. Red spot on affected joint. Bursitis. Cold, moist limbs. Profuse sweat on hands.

Related

Related: Cetrar. Elap. Guai. Sang. Thu.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Lungwort (STICTA)

General

Offers a set of symptoms like coryza, bronchial catarrh and influenza, together with nervous and rheumatic disturbances. There is a general feeling of dullness and malaise, as when a cold is coming on; dull, heavy pressure in forehead, catarrhal conjunctivitis, etc. Rheumatic stiffness of neck.

Mind

Feels as if floating in air (Datura arborea; Lac. Can). Confusion of ideas; patient must talk.

Head

Dull headache, with dull heavy pressure in forehead and root of nose. Catarrhal headache before discharge appears. Burning in eyes and soreness of balls. Sensation as if scalp were too small. Burning in eyelids.

Nose

Feeling of fullness at the root of the nose (Nux). Atrophic rhinitis (Calc fluor). Dryness of nasal membrane. Constant need to blow the nose, but no discharge. Dry scabs, especially in evening and night. Hay-fever; incessant sneezing (Sabad).

Female

Scanty flow of milk.

Abdomen

Diarrhœa; stools profuse, frothy; worse, morning. Urine increased, with soreness and aching in bladder.

Respiratory

Throat raw; dropping of mucus posteriorly. Dry, hacking cough during night; worse, inspiration. Tracheitis, facilitates expectoration. Loose cough in morning. Pain through chest from sternum to spiral column. Cough after measles (Sang); worse towards evening and when tired. Pulsation from right side of sternum down to abdomen.

Extremities

Rheumatic pain in right shoulder joint, deltoid, and biceps. Swelling, heat, redness of joints. Spot of inflammation and redness over affected joint. Pain severe and drawing. Chorea-like spasms; legs feel floating in air. Housemaid's knee (Rhus; Kali hyd; Slag). Shooting pains in knees. Joints and neighboring muscles red, swollen, painful. Rheumatic pains precede catarrhal symptoms.

Modalities

Worse, sudden changes of temperature.

Relationship

Compare: Datura arborea-Bougmancia candida (cannot concentrate thoughts; brain floats in thousands of problems and grand ideas. Floating sensation as if ideas were floating outside of brain. Headache, heartburn. Burning sensation around cardiac and of stomach, extending to œsophagus with sense of constriction. Heat and fullness over liver region). Cetraria-Iceland Moss (chronic diarrhœa, phthisis, bloody expectoration. Is used as a decoction and boiled with milk as an expectorant and nutrient in bronchorrhœa, catarrh, etc). Also compare: Eryng; Dros; Stilling; Rumex; Sambuc.

Dose

Tincture, to sixth potency.

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Leaders

Heavy full feeling, and pain and pressure forehead and root of the nose > by discharge.

Secretions in the nose dry up and form crusts; constant inclination to blow the nose, without result, on account of the excessive dryness.

Dry night cough; can't sleep or lie down; must sit up; cough after measles (Coff.).

This remedy, although never anywhere fully proven, has come to be a very useful one. In acute catarrh it is one of the best.

Its characteristic symptom here is heavy pain and pressure in the forehead and root of the nose. This is in the beginning of a cold; when the nose begins to discharge freely the pain ceases or becomes much less. It is also a great value in the form of nasal catarrh, if when the discharges dry up there is this same pain in forehead and frontal sinuses. In these cases the nasal secretions incline to dry up and are hard to discharge, but the irritation is so great that there is a constant inclination to blow the nose, with little result. These secretions become so hard and dry as to form scabby concretions. This condition is next door to the plugs and clinkers of Kali bichromicum, which often go on to ulceration of the septum. I have relieved many cases of chronic catarrh with Sticta; some of years' standing.

You will remember that Kali bichromicum also has a severe frontal headache at the root of the nose, especially from suppressed catarrh, so that all the other symptoms must be considered in choosing between them. The other remedies that resemble Sticta in the acute form of catarrh are Aconite, Ammonium carb., Camphor, Nux vomica and Sambucus, and in the chronic form Ammonium carb. and Lycopodium.

There is never with Sticta the watery or fluent form of coryza, such as calls for Euphrasia, Mercurius, Arsenicum and Kali hydroiodicum. Nor have I ever found it of use in the thick, bland kind of discharge that calls for Pulsatilla, Sepia and Kali sulphuricum. Sticta is also one of our cough remedies and one of the best indications for its use, especially in acute cough, is the aforementioned nasal catarrh attending it. The Sticta cough is also worse at night when lying down and keeps the patient awake, though I do not think the wakefulness is entirely owing to the cough, but that a nervous condition which also comes under the curative range of Sticta contributes to it.

This remedy is one of the best for the obstinacy of cough attending or following measles, and here we remember that sleeplessness is a frequent concomitant. In this respect Sticta is like Coffea cruda, which is wonderfully efficacious here. The cough of Sticta is at fist dry, but later on may become loose; hence it is often found of use in the incessant, racking, wearing coughs of consumptives. In hay fever it is the remedy when the trouble centres in the head and frontal sinuses; the nose is completely plugged up, though there is continual sneezing.

I have found Sticta promptly curative in inflammatory rheumatism of the knee joint. It is very sudden in its attacks and unless promptly relieved by Sticta will go on to the exudative stage and become chronic in character. In one case the pain was so severe that the patient, though a strong, resolute man, became delirious with the pain. Sticta relieved and completely cured him, so that he was able to attend to his business (teamster) within a week. Sticta deserves a thorough proving. There is a nervous symptom that has been several times verified, viz. -"legs felt as if floating in the air, or she felt light and airy as if not resting on the bed." See Asarum and Valerian. Such sensations are often found in hysterical conditions and are very distressing.

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General

Sticta pulmonaria. Lung-wort. N. O. Lichenes. Tincture.

Clinical

Angina pectoris. Anus, pain in. Asthma. Bronchitis. Catarrh. Clergyman's sore throat. Cold. Cough. Diabetes. Diaphragm, rheumatism of . Diarrhœa. Glands, swollen. Hay-fever. Headache. Housemaid's knee . Hysteria. Influenza. Laryngitis. Levitation. Measles, cough of. Migraine. Milk, scanty. Neuralgia. Ozæna. Phthisis. Post-nasal catarrh. Pott's disease. Rheumatism. Seminal emissions. Sick headache. Sleeplessness. Syphilis.

Characteristics

There cannot be much doubt whence Sticta received its name of Pulmonaria . The likeness of the plant to lung tissue is self-evident. It was a popular remedy of great repute in catarrhs and coughs when Hale introduced it to homeopathy. S. P. Burdock, C. H. Lutes, and S. Lilienthal proved it and elicited some very remarkable and valuable symptoms. Hering added many no less valuable clinical symptoms. Dewey ( Trans. Paris Int. H. Cong . 1900, p. 317) conducted another proving on several persons which has further enriched the pathogenesis. His additions are marked (D) in the Schema. "It was first used," says Hale, "for severe, harassing cough," and such good results accrued that provings were made to ascertain its full value. It was found to cause severe coryza, with violent sneezing, intense headache, and conjunctivitis. These attacks were preceded or followed by rheumatic pains and swelling of the small joints." The catarrh of Stic . is for the most part obstructive ; and if there is discharge it dries quickly, and forms crusts or scurf. Constant need to blow the nose, but no discharge comes on account of dryness. In syphilis, or any other disease where this condition is present, Stic . will be the remedy. A grand characteristic both of headaches and catarrh is a "dull, heavy pressure (or stuffed feeling) in root of nose." The cough of Stic . is also dry. "Dry night cough" is a keynote: cough dry, < evening and night; can neither sleep nor lie down; must sit up. P. C. Majumdar ( Ind. H. R ., v. 109) cured two cases of whooping-cough with Stic . 6x. The cough began just after sunset, and went on till vomiting occurred, and all the contents of the stomach were thrown off. Stic . will often cure coughs left by measles, whooping-cough, influenza. Hard, dry barking coughs following colds. In cases of phthisis and hæmoptysis it is of great service. "Oppression at chest; sensation as if a hard mass on it. Sudden pain from sternum to spine, constant, < on movement," are leading symptoms in such cases, in addition to those of the cough. Phthisis and rheumatism not infrequently occur in different members of a phthisical family; and rheumatism (as the word implies) is related to catarrh. Stic . meets all these conditions; and it has, like Bacil ., "a deep-in headache." Elias C. Price (in Southern J. of H .) relates this case: Boy, 8, had acute rheumatism with inflammation and redness of one knee, ankle, toes, wrist, and fingers; valvular heart disease from a previous attack. Aco . and Sul . failed to relieve. Stic . 1x was given every hour. Next day there was a considerable quantity of fluid in the knee-joint [an aggravation by Stic . apparently], but otherwise the boy was better. Stic . was continued. Next day half the fluid was gone, and the third day it was all gone and the boy was cured in nine days. Price remarks that he had noticed one symptom so frequently present in the cases he cured with Stic . that he began to regard it as a characteristic although it was not in the provings: A spot of inflammation and redness on the affected joint like the hectic flush on the cheeks in phthisis. In housemaid's-knee Stic . comes as near being a specific as a remedy ever can. M. D. Youngman ( H. M ., 1893, p. 360) related a number of cases of catarrhal and pulmonary affections cured with Stic . Ø, the indications being: Harsh, racking, incessant, "unprofitable cough of spasmodic type. He considers it especially Suited to neuralgic, rheumatic, gouty individuals. Here is one of his cases: Mrs. H., 42, had an attack of bronchitis in January, and when seen, March 29th, had a harsh, racking cough, with pain all through chest on coughing; spongy state of mucous membrane of pharynx, which bleeds easily; has had several attacks of asthma; has hay-fever every August; paroxysms of cough often end in convulsive sneezing, which she dreads because it is followed by asthmatic symptoms. "She takes cold in her head, which in a day or so goes down in her throat, and thence into her chest." Every cold she gets does this. Stic . 1x gave relief in five days. Hale says Stic . is indispensable in February, March, and April in the American climate. L. O. Rogers ( S. J. of H .) prescribed Stic . for a patient with the cough of the remedy at the time she was nursing her seventh child. She had always been annoyed because of a scantiness of milk; it had been occasionally entirely suppressed. Whilst taking Stic . the flow became ample, and remained so as long as an occasional dose was being taken. Rogers subsequently verified this effect in a number of cases. Another use of Stic . is in sleeplessness, which is due to nervousness, or to cough. This is part of its action on the nervous system. Stic . is one of the remedies which produce the levitation symptom: the legs feel as if floating in the air; head as if floating off; as if the body and limbs did not touch the bed. Hysterical chorea coming on after profuse hæmorrhage has been cured by Stic . Peculiar Sensations are: As if she cannot keep her tongue still. As if stomach full of yeast. Throat and mouth burn as if scalded. As if hard mass collected in lungs. As if floating in air. The right side is more prominently affected. The symptoms are: < By touch. < Motion (also: must get up and move about for relief from pain of knee). < Turning eyes. Pressure > . Lying down > headache; < cough. Influenza is > in open air. Many symptoms are < as the day advances, lasting all day. Cough < nights (comparatively free from it during day). Coughing < cough (the more he coughs, the more he wants to).

Relations

Compare: Lung affections; deep-in headache, Bac. Catarrhs and coughs, Dros., Nux, Rx. c., Samb., Meph. Rheumatism, Act. r., Stellar. Nerve symptoms, Asar, Tarent. Asthma of consumptives associated with splitting headache, Rx. c., Meph. Levitation symptoms, Calc., Sil., Can. i. Sensation of lightness of body, Coccul., Gels. The more he coughs, the more he wants to, Ign. Heaviness from front to back, Naja. Headache as if skull being raised and lowered, Can. i.

Causation

Fall. Hæmorrhages.

Mind

Confusion of ideas, cannot concentrate them. ─ Great desire to talk about anything and everything, doesn't care whether any one listens, cannot keep her tongue still. ─ Lively, wanted to strike out; lay on the lounge and began to "kick up her heels"; when reproved said she couldn't help it but felt as if she wanted to fly away.

Head

Slight vertigo (D). ─ Dull sensation in head with sharp darting pains through vertex, side of face, and lower jaw. ─ Dull, heavy pressure in forehead and root of nose, increasing in intensity during the day. ─ Pain in r. supraorbital region; became more acute and extended through brain on r. side; deep in brain. ─ Headache extending through brain, almost intolerable. ─ Headache as if entire skull were being raised up and lowered again, comes on after dose of Ø in man, 43, with arthritis deformans; the pain had been felt before but not so severely (R. T. C.). ─ Darting pains in temples, increasing in intensity the entire day. ─ Catarrhal headache before catarrh sets in. ─ Sick-headache, must lie down; < from light and noise; nausea and vomiting, nearly to faintness. ─ Headache with severe pain in eyes felt on closing lids or turning eyeballs. ─ Scalp feels as if too small, or as if drawn too tight. ─ [Painful weight on back of head. ─ Confused, heavy sensation on head. ─ The head seems as if flying in space. ─ Frontal migraine > by cold; < by pressure. ─ Slight pressive headache deep in. ─ The head seems full and confused by every dose (D).]

Eyes

Eyes feel heavy. ─ Burning in lids with soreness of the ball on closing lids or turning eyes; increasing during the entire day. ─ [Eyes: painful as if inflamed. ─ Sight dim as if he had read too much. ─ Pain in l. internal canthus. ─ Right eye painful as if something were in it (D).]

Ears

Acute neuralgic pains in mastoid apophysis, rather deep in.

Nose

Fulness at root of nose. ─ Constant need to blow nose, but no result on account of dryness. ─ Excessive and painful dryness of mucous membrane; secretions dry rapidly, forming scabs difficult to dislodge. ─ Incessant sneezing with fulness in forehead and r. side of nose, tingling in r. side of nose. ─ Desire to put finger in nose to clear out gluish secretion. ─ Coryza < afternoon; > in open air. ─ Constant desire to blow nose without discharge. (tertiary syphilis). ─ [Slight epistaxis. ─ Slight liquid coryza. ─ Sensation of obstruction in nose. ─ Yellow, thick discharge for several days (D).]

Face

Darting pains in side of face; and in lower jaw. ─ [Pain in malar bone. ─ Sensitiveness of lower jaw. ─ Pain in r. submaxillary gland, < by pressure. ─ Pain in parotid gland (D).]

Mouth

Mouth and throat burn as if scalded. ─ [Thick yellow coat on posterior half of tongue with a narrow yellow stripe running along centre to tip; many red papillæ show through. ─ Patch covered with pearly white coat, rough and hard to dislodge; saliva abundant and foamy (D).]

Throat

Excessive dryness of soft palate, feels like dried leather, causing painful deglutition. ─ Dropping of mucus from posterior nares, throat feels and looks raw. ─ Sore throat; coryza from slightest cold. ─ [Scraping sensation in throat. ─ Obstruction in throat (D).]

Stomach

Slight pyrosis with acid and bitter regurgitation; sleepy after dinner and diminished appetite (D). ─ Dull, oppressive pain in cardia. ─ Severe pains from sternum to spinal column, and a feeling of rumbling burning in stomach as if full of yeast.

Abdomen

Dull pains in r. hypochondrium. ─ Feeling of fulness in l. hypochondriac region. ─ Rumbling as if full of yeast.

Stool and Anus

Mucous diarrhœa and loose cough. ─ [Thick diarrhœa; stools profuse, frequent, little colour. ─ Constant desire for stool with no result. ─ Profuse stool 1 a.m., driving him hurriedly from bed. ─ Foamy stool, with flatus. ─ Stool 3 a.m. with effort. ─ Constipation with acute tetanic pain in anus, lasting half an hour after stool (D).]

Urinary Organs

[Bladder seems distended. ─ Urine thicker than usual, and increased in quantity. ─ Sensitiveness or pain in bladder. ─ Urine much increased. ─ Frequent necessity to urinate; must rise several times at night. ─ Efforts to urinate with emission of a small quantity (D).]

Male Sexual Organs

[Pollutions for several nights. ─ Pollution whilst he slept in afternoon. ─ Mind drawn to sexual subjects (D).]

Female Sexual Organs

[Uneasiness in the pelvis. ─ Menses more abundant and paler than usual (D).]. ─ Scanty milk became abundant.

Respiratory Organs

Tickling in larynx and trachea causing cough. ─ Tickling in r. side of trachea below larynx. ─ Clergyman's sore throat, characterised by great dryness of mucous membranes. ─ Hay-fever, with dryness of membranes. ─ Cough: dry, < evening and night; can neither sleep nor lie down; dry, noisy; severe, dry, racking with splitting frontal headache. ─ Cough after influenza; after measles; after whooping-cough; barking; < night and morning. ─ [Cough: dry; spasmodic; the more he coughs the more he wants to. ─ Spasmodic cough which he cannot stop. ─ Dry cough, causing pain in upper part of sternum (D).]. ─ A lady had catarrhal asthma so badly was refused admission to an hotel; Sti. p . 1x was given, and next day she walked into the hotel without any sign of asthma (R. T. C.).

Chest

Slight oppression of lungs. ─ Feeling of a hard mass in chest. ─ Sudden pain through chest from sternum to spine; constant, < on movement; arms powerless from extreme pain if an attempt was made to move them; difficult breathing and speaking. ─ Pulsation from r. side of sternum down to abdomen. ─ Coryza with expectoration of dark blood brought on by every cold, damp spell.

Heart

Dull, oppressive pain in cardiac region. ─ Attacks of anxiety about heart; awakes with strange sensation about heart and for a few moments feels as if floating in air. ─ [Pulse uneven, drops every third or fourth beat. ─ Veins of hands feel distended, also superficial veins of arms and legs (D).]

Neck and Back

Cervical glands swollen, l. side, neck sensitive. ─ [Woke with heavy pain in second and fourth lumbar vertebræ, > sitting upright or bending forward. ─ Great weakness in the back in afternoon (D).]

Limbs

Darting pains in arms, legs, and shoulders, beginning in muscles of arms, then in fingers, joints, thighs, and toes. ─ Swelling and stiffness of hands and feet. ─ Rheumatism of joints. ─ Hands and feet tend to be cold (D). ─ Red spots of inflammation on affected joints (Price).

Upper Limbs

Rheumatism in r. shoulder-joint, deltoid, and biceps, extending at times to forearm; commencing at night; > during day. ─ Lancinating pain in second joint of middle finger, increasing in intensity all day. ─ Rheumatism of wrists; wrists and hands swollen, little redness, very painful on moving. ─ On movement, painful bruised sensation in muscles, esp. of forearm (D).

Lower Limbs

L. leg felt as if floating in the air, feels light and airy without any feeling of resting on the bed. ─ (Fluid in knee-joint.). ─ Rheumatism of r. ankle, swollen, very painful. ─ Knee painful from a fall. ─ Housemaid's-knee. ─ [Lancination in knees and legs. ─ Feet cold and sweating (D).]

Generalities

Dulness. ─ Very soon after taking Sti. p . prover said, "I feel that medicine all over me.". ─ General feeling of weariness. ─ Burning, biting, sticking pains all over body during entire day. ─ Feeling of levitation of different parts. ─ Hysteria after loss of blood. ─ Swelling and painfulness of lymphatic glands.

Sleep

Sleeplessness: from nervousness; from cough; of children after surgical operations ( e.g ., setting broken leg).

Fever

Increase of temperature. ─ Shudder through the whole body, esp. of toes and fingers.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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General

Lungwort Lichen. Lichens.
The tincture is prepared from the fresh lichen grown on the sugar maple.
Introduced by S. P. Burdick, proved by him, N. A. M. J. of Hom., vol. 12, p. 202 ; Lutes, Hale's N. R., p. 992 ; observations by Lilienthal, Am. Jour. of Hom. Mat. Med., vol. 2, p. 234.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Talkativeness , Carr, M. I., 1875, p. 245 ; Catarrh of head and chest , Burdick, N. A. J. H., vol. 12, p. 203 ; Headache , Burdick, N. A. J. H., vol. 12, p. 207 ; Nasal catarrh, Sweating of hands , Lippe, Org., vol. 2, p. 183 ; Chronic nasal catarrh , Smith, Hom. Phys., vol. 9, p. 37 ; Coryza , Burdick, N. A. J. H., vol. 12, p. 205 ; Pain in stomach , Carr. M. I., 1875, p. 245 ; Influenza , Martin, A. J. H. M. M., vol. 1, p. 234 ; Boyce, A. H. O., vol. 1, p. 117 ; Hay fever , Dart, N. A. J. H. vol. 23, p. 532 ; Lewis, B. J. H., vol. 34, p. 168 ; Affection of chest , Scheurer, A. H. O., vol. 10, p. 596 ; Rheumatic pain in chest , Chase (see Hale's Therap.) ; Cough, Whooping cough , Blake, Hom. Rev., vol. 16, p. 406 ; Cough , Miller, Hah. Mo., vol. 7, p. 403 ; Conant, Org., vol. 2, p. 229 ; Cough in consumption , Blake, H. M., vol. 10, p. 375 ; Cough after measles , Burdick, N. A. J. H., vol. 12, p. 210 ; Affection of heart , N. A. J. H., vol. 12, p. 208 ; Rheumatic bursitis , Hasbrouck, Hom. Times, vol. 3, p. 94 ; Price, A. H. O., vol. 9, p. 163 ; Bursitis , Price, A. H. Z., vol. 102, p. 119, from Hom. Times, vol. 8, p. 249 ; Hasbrouck, M. I., vol. 6, p. 564 ; Pott's disease , Moore, M. I., vol. 6, p. 344 ; Chorea and sleeplessness , Burdick, N. A. J. H., vol. 12, p. 207 ; Rheumatism , Corliss, C. M. A., vol. 2, p. 459 ; Price, A. H. O., vol. 9, p. 162 ; Burdick, N. A. J. H., vol. 12, p. 205.

Mind

General confusion of ideas, inability to concentrate them.
Great desire to talk about anything and everything, does not care whether any one listens or not, she must talk ; feels as if she cannot keep her tongue still.

Inner head

Dull sensation in head, with sharp darting pains through vertex, side of face and lower jaw.
Darting in temporal region.
Dull heavy pressure in forehead and root of nose, increasing during day.
Catarrhal headache before nasal discharge sets in.
Sick-headache ; must lie down, < from light and noise ; nausea and vomiting, nearly to faintness.
Headache, with severe pain in eyes, felt very sore on closing lids or turning eyeball.

Sight and eyes

Burning in eyelids, with soreness of ball on closing lids or turning eyes.
Profuse mild discharge ; catarrhal conjunctivitis.

Smell and nose

Constant need to blow nose, but no discharge results on account of dryness.
Excessive and painful dryness of mucous membrane ; secretions dry rapidly, forming scabs difficult to dislodge. θ Influenza.
Nose is stuffed up, nasal secretion drying up so rapidly that it cannot be discharged.
Almost incessant sneezing, with a feeling of fulness in r. side of forehead, extending to root of nose, tingling in r. side of nose. θ Coryza.
Desire to put finger in nose to clear out gluish secretion.
Acute coryza with fever.
Chronic catarrh of head.
Influenza : excessive and painful dryness of mucous membrane ; secretions rapidly dried and formed scabby concretions, requiring great effort to discharge them ; soft palate felt like dried leather, making deglutition painful ; irritation in chest, more in evening and night.
Violent coryza, stuffed feeling at root of nose ; feels well in morning, much < in afternoon, > in open air. θ Influenza.
Catarrh of head for four years ; sneezing mornings with green discharge ; frontal headache and epistaxis.
Obstruction of nose, blows to no purpose ; interfered with breathing and changed his voice ; < at night, depriving him of sleep ; constant perspiration of hands so severe as to interfere with comfort ; could not wear a pair of kid gloves a second time.
Chronic catarrh of fifteen years' standing ; constantly blowing his nose, without secretion ; dry scales frequently formed upon mucous surface, which not only added greatly to his misery, but also prevented his smoking with any degree of comfort on account of obstruction of breathing.
Constant desire to blow nose without discharge. θ Tertiary syphilis.

Upper face

Darting pains in side of face.

Lower face

Darting pains in lower jaw.

Palate and throat

Excessive dryness of soft palate, feels like dried leather, causing painful deglutition.
Dropping of mucus from posterior nares, throat feels and looks raw.
Soreness of throat ; coryza from slightest cold ; subject to attacks for last ten to fifteen years.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Severe pain from sternum to spinal column, and a feeling of rumbling, turning in stomach, as if full of yeast.

Hypochondria

Dull pain in right hypochondrium. θ Catarrh.
Full feeling in left hypochondrium.

Abdomen and loins

Rumbling as if full of yeast, with severe pain from sternum to spine.

Stools and rectum

Diarrhœa mucosa, and loose cough.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Tickling in larynx and bronchi causing cough.
Tickling in right side of trachea below larynx.
Clergyman's sore throat, characterized by great dryness of mucous membranes.
For last twelve years, annual attack of hay catarrh ; slight itching and tingling in anterior nares, followed immediately by paroxysms of sneezing, frequently repeated for first forty-eight hours ; mucous membrane of nose reddened and swollen, highly hyperæmic ; dull headache ; stuffed up feeling in frontal sinuses ; conjunctiva reddened, swollen, dry ; pulse accelerated, temperature above normal ; great thirst ; during day profuse, thin, excoriating discharge from nose ; burning lachrymation ; hacking cough, preceded by tickling and burning in larynx ; at night discharges almost cease, air passages become dry, paroxysms of sneezing more frequent, explosions seem to number more at each paroxysm, until sneezing and coughing are almost incessant ; very little sleep until toward morning ; when hyperemia gradually subsides, air passages become moist, and at sunrise there is again a profuse discharge from eyes and nose, which is hot and excoriating, causing rawness and soreness of cheeks, borders of nose and upper lip ; throat and mouth burn as if scalded, sneezing and coughing continue, and considerable thin, glairy expectoration is coughed up during day ; at night dry stage again comes on, breathing is more labored and difficult, wheezing, whistling, sibilant sounds in chest, with rhonchus sufficiently to be heard across a large room ; obliged to breathe with mouth open ; drinks irritable, is worn out with sneezing and coughing and often but not in large quantities ; becomes weak and for want of sleep ; has a horror of night, for then he suffers most. θ Hay catarrh.
Severe catarrh of head, obliging him to keep his room for a week at a time ; discharge of quantities of bloody pus from nose and throat ; distressing cough and oppression of lungs, causing sensation of a hard mass collected in them ; cough at first dry and hacking, from tickling in larynx, which finally extended to lungs ; during day comparatively free from cough, but returned every evening about 6 o'clock, continued entire night, almost incessant ; could not sleep or lie down ; completely worn out.

Cough

Cough : dry, < evening and night, can neither sleep nor lie down ; dry, noisy ; severe, dry, racking, caused by tickling in right side of trachea, below larynx ; splitting frontal headache ; loose morning, less free during day ; pain left side, below scapula ; tickling in larynx and bronchi ; incessant, wearing or racking, in consumptives ; croupy ; incessant, at night, comparatively free during day ; hard, dry, barking ; dry and noisy, spasmodic stage of whooping cough ; causing splitting headache.
During or closely following influenza, incessant, short, dry, hacking cough : sputa scanty, whitish or frothy, or entirely absent ; dull aching or heaviness in upper chest ; frontal headache, < from coughing.
Cough, < night and morning ; diarrhœa, pain before each passage, < in morning ; emaciation ; restless sleep on account of cough. θ After measles.
After taking a severe cold, hard, racking cough, < at every inspiration ; considerable oppression of chest.
Cough at first dry and hacking, from tickling in larynx, which finally extends to lungs.
Barking cough, like whooping cough, after catching cold.

Inner chest and lungs

Oppression of chest and feeling of a hard mass there ; hard, racking cough, excited by inspiration.
Sudden pain reaching through chest from sternum to spinal column ; constant, < on movement ; arms powerless from extreme pain, if an attempt was made to move them ; difficult breathing and speaking.
A lady contracted a bad cold, characterized by a pulsation from right side of sternum down to abdomen.
Every cold, damp spell brings on a cough, with expectoration of dark blood ; loose cough in morning, expectoration less free during day ; pain in left side, below scapula ; foul taste in mouth ; tickling in larynx and bronchi ; constipation ; menses regular ; nervous headache in temples ; hæmoptysis three years ago.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Dull, oppressive pain in cardiac region.
Attacks of great anxiety about heart ; very nervous ; has had much mental trouble ; awakes at night with a strange sensation about heart, and for a few moments after feels as if she were floating in air.

Upper limbs

Rheumatism in right shoulder joint, deltoid and triceps, extending at times to forearm ; commencing at night ; arm nearly helpless, could not put on coat ; during day lameness nearly disappears ; no heat or swelling.
Rheumatism of wrist joints of three months' duration ; wrists and hands swollen, little redness, very painful on moving.

Lower limbs

General confusion of ideas ; legs felt as if floating in air ; she felt light and airy, staggering gait.
Rheumastism, larger joints principally affected ; dull, heavy pains ; no appetite ; steak tastes like sand, or has no taste at all ; restless at night, little or no sleep ; weak, debilitated, general feeling of malaise ; much pain in head, catarrhal.
Rheumatism in right ankle joint, swollen and very painful ; could not get about without help of cane.
Severe rheumatic inflammation of knee in a boy æt. 8 ; pain, soreness to touch, redness, followed by an effusion, patella being lifted up, with elastic swelling underneath and around.
Two years ago fell upon knee, which has since been painful and sensitive ; several months after fall knee began slowly to swell until there was a large collection of fluid in patellar bursa ; swelling about an inch and a half in diameter, and also projects forward about so much ; distinct fluctuation. θ Bursitis.
Large swelling over right patella ; knee painful, especially in joint, which is very stiff, particularly after having sat a few minutes ; must stretch leg, or get up and move about for relief ; had applied some liniments, which were followed by aggravation. θ Bursitis.
Bursitis in knee joint, simple or diffused.

Limbs in general

Darting pains in arms, fingers, joints, thighs and toes.
Swelling and stiffness of hands and feet.
Heat, swelling and circumscribed redness of joints ; subsequent synovitis with exudation of serum. θ Inflammatory rheumatism.
Rheumatism affecting knee, ankle, toes, wrists and fingers ; on second day large collection of water in knee joint.
Sharp, darting, lancinating pain, first in knee joints, then in elbow and shoulder ; finger-joints were next involved, gradually extended to every joint in body ; intense pain in neck and head ; joints swollen and stiff ; cannot sleep for pain, can scarcely walk ; of six months' duration. θ Rheumatism.

Rest. position. motion

Lying down : limbs feel as if floating in air.
Motion : pain in chest < ; of wrists, rheumatism <.
Must get up and move about for relief from pain in knee.
Turning eyeballs : eyes feel sore.
Attempt to move arms : they are powerless from excessive pain.

Nerves

Legs as if floating in air ; she felt light and airy, without any sensation of resting on bed.
General feeling of dulness and malaise, as when a catarrh is coming on.
Hysteria : after loss of blood ; strange sensation about heart ; hysterical chorea ; migraine ; she has to lie down ; light and noise aggravate ; nausea and vomiting with faintness.
After severe hemorrhage from bowel controlled by Hamam. : could not sleep for over a week ; as soon as night comes on feet and legs dance and jump around in spite of her, so that she is compelled to hold, or have them held to floor ; on lying down, limbs feel as if floating in air ; as light as feathers. θ Hysterical chorea.

Sleep

Sleeplessness ; from nervousness ; from cough ; of children ; after surgical operations, e. g., sitting fractured leg.

Time

During day : pressure in forehead and nose < ; profuse thin, excoriating discharge from nose ; coughing up glairy mucus ; comparatively free from cough ; cough < ; pain before each passage < ; rheumatism of arms <.
Afternoon : influenza <.
Evening : irritation in chest < ; cough <.
Night : irritation in chest < ; obstruction of nose < ; discharge almost ceases ; dry stage of catarrh ; incessant cough ; awakes with strange sensation about heart ; rheumatism of shoulder commences ; restless ; feet and legs dance and jump around.

Temperature and weather

Open air : influenza >.

Attacks, periodicity

Every evening about 6 o'clock : cough returned.
Second day after rheumatism : large collection of water in knee joint.
Three months : rheumatism of wrist joints.
Six months : rheumatism.
Two years ago : fell upon knee, swelling and painfulness.
For twelve years : annual attack of hay catarrh.
Fifteen-years' standing : chronic catarrh ; attacks of coryza.

Locality and direction

Right : feeling of fulness in forehead ; tingling in side of nose ; dull pain in hypochondrium ; tickling in side of trachea ; pulsation from side of sternum down to abdomen ; rheumatism of shoulder joint ; rheumatism of ankle joint ; large swelling over patella.
Left : full feeling in hypochondrium ; pain below scapulæ ; pain in side.

Sensations

As if she cannot keep her tongue still ; as if stomach were full of yeast ; throat and mouth burn as if scalded ; as of a hard mass collected in lungs ; as if floating in air ; legs as if floating in air.
Pain : left side below scapula ; in head.
Intense pain : in neck and head.
Severe pain : in eyes ; from sternum to spinal column.
Splitting pain : in forehead.
Sharp darting pains : through vertex ; side of face and lower jaw ; in temporal region ; in side of face ; in lower jaw ; in arms, fingers, joints, thighs and toes ; in knee joints, then elbow and shoulder and finger joints.
Sudden pain : through chest, from sternum to spinal column.
Rheumatic pain : in right shoulder joint, deltoid and triceps ; of wrist joint.
Dull aching : in upper chest.
Dull oppressive pain : in cardiac region ; in joints.
Dull pain : in right hypochondrium.
Burning : in eyelids ; in larynx ; of mouth and throat.
Soreness : of eyeball ; of throat ; of cheeks ; of nose and upper lip.
Tingling : in anterior nares ; in right side of nose.
Tickling : in larynx and bronchi ; in right side of trachea, below larynx.
Dryness : of nose ; of soft palate ; of mucous membranes.
Dull, heavy pressure ; in forehead and root of nose.
Dull sensation : in head.
Strange sensation : about heart.
Pulsation : from right side of sternum down to abdomen.
Stiffness : of hands and feet.
Heaviness : in upper chest.
Fulness : in side of forehead and root of nose.
Full feeling : in left hypochondrium.
Stuffed feeling : in nose ; in frontal sinuses.
Itching : in anterior nares.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : knee sore.
After a fall upon knee : swelling.

Stage of life, constitution

Boy, æt. 4, after measles ; cough.
Boy, æt. 7, after catching cold ; cough.
Boy, æt. 7 to 8, had severe attack year before, followed by heart disease, was under treatment four months, present attack cured in nine days, rheumatism.
Boy, æt. 8 ; rheumatic bursitis.
Girl, æt. 10, nervous sanguine temperament, medium size, skin pale, transparent, freckled, hair auburn ; rheumatism.
Boy, æt. 12, suffering four years ; catarrh of head.
Girl, æt. 12, lively ; influenza.
Girl, æt. 19, scrofulous, had hæmoptysis three years ago ; cough.
Young lady, æt. 20, married, nervous sanguine temperament, slightly built, hair deep auburn, suffering six months ; rheumatism.
Woman, æt. 30, after catching cold two or three weeks ago ; pulsation in chest.
Woman, æt. 38, two years ago fell upon knee, since then suffering ; bursitis.
Negro, æt. 38, suffering four weeks ; bursitis.
Mrs. G., æt. about 40, suffering three months ; rheumatism.
Mrs. F., æt. 40, after hemorrhage from bowels, which was arrested by Hamam. ; chorea.
Woman, æt. 41 ; rheumatic pain in chest.
Man, æt. 45, rheumatism of arm.
Man, æt. 48, rheumatism.
Lady, æt. 50, nervous, has had much mental trouble ; affection of heart.
Man, æt. 50, suffering six mounths, rheumastism.
Man, æt. 56, soreness of throat.
Farmer, æt. 58, hay fever.

Relations

Compare : Drosera, Nux vom., Rumex, Sambucus , in catarrhs and coughs ; Act. rac ., in rheumatism ; Asarum, Tarent ., in nervous phenomena.