Xanthoxylum Fraxineum xan.

Nerves. Respiration. Female sexual organs. Left side.

Sleeping. Dampness.

Vomiting.

Grinding, shooting, radiating pains. Numb l. side.

Nervousness. Head threatens to fly to pieces. Throat feels like a hollow cavern. Violent, agonizing, grinding dysmenorrhœal pains, not > in any position; pains go into thighs or radiate over whole body, even to heart. Leucorrhœa replaces menses. Soreness of face of thighs, before menses.

Related: Ars. Lach.

Prickly Ash (XANTHOXYLUM)

Its specific action is on the nervous system and mucous membranes. Paralysis, especially hemiplegia. Painful hæmorrhages, after-pains, neuralgic dysmenorrhœa, and rheumatic affections, offer a therapeutic field for this remedy, especially in patients of spare habit and nervous, delicate organization. Indigestion from over-eating or from too much fluid. Sluggish capillary circulation. Neurasthenia, poor assimilation, insomnia, occipital headache. Increases mucous secretion of mouth and stimulates the secretion from all glands with ducts opening in the mouth.

Nervous, frightened. Mental depression.

Feels full. Weight and pain on vertex. Pain over eyes, throbbing pressure over nose, pressure in forehead; head seems divided; ringing in ears. Occipital headache. Sick headache with dizziness and flatulence.

Neuralgia of lower jaw. Dryness of mouth and fauces. Pharyngitis (Wyethia).

Griping and diarrhœa. Dysentery, with tympanites, tenesmus; inodorous discharges.

Menses too early and painful. Ovarian neuralgia, with pain in loins and lower abdomen; worse, left side, extending down the thigh, along genito-crural nerves. Neuralgic dysmenorrhœa, with neuralgic headaches; pain in back and down legs. Menses thick, almost black. After-pains (Arnica; Cup; Cham). Leucorrhœa at time of menses. Neurasthenic patients who are thin, emaciated; poor assimilation with insomnia and occipital headache.

Aphonia. Constant desire to take a long breath; oppression of chest. Dry cough, day and night.

Paralysis of left side following spinal disorders. Numbness of left side; impairment of nerves of motion. Hemiplegia. Pain in nape, extending down back. Sciatica; worse, hot weather. Anterior, crural neuralgia (Staph). Left arm numb. Neuralgic shooting pain, as from electricity, all over limb.

Hard and unrefreshing; dreams of flying. Sleeplessness in neurasthenics.

Compare: Gnaph; Cimicif; Staph; Mezer; Piscidia-White dogwood--(a nerve sedative. Insomnia due to worry, nervous excitement, spasmodic coughs; pains of irregular menstruation; regulates the flow. Neuralgic and spasmodic affections. Use tincture in rather material doses).

First to sixth potency.

Xanthoxylum americanum. X. fraxineum. Prickly Ash. Toothache-tree. N. O. Rutaceæ. Tincture of fresh bark.

After-pains. Asthma. Coccygodynia. Dysmenorrhœa. Earache. Fibroma. Headache. Hemiplegia. Hysteria. Jaw-joint, pain in. Levitation. Menstruation, painful . Nerves, injured. Nervousness. Neuralgia; crural. Ophthalmia. Sciatica. Toothache. Ulcers.

According to Hale, Rafinesque was the first to investigate Xanthoxylum , which was known to him as "a great article in the materia medica of our Indians"; who use the root bark in decoction for "colics, gonorrhœa, syphilis, inward pains, toothache, ulcers, &c. It is a great topical stimulant," he continues, "changing the nature of malignant ulcers." Xan . contains Piperin . T. C. Duncan ( Minn. H. M ., ix. 340), recounting reminiscences of his boyhood, says: "There was another drug that set my youthful mouth and stomach on fire, and that was Prickly Ash. You wanted to open the mouth to let the cool air get in." This warmth is felt as a warm glow through the entire system, with a sensation in the nerves as if gentle shocks of electricity were passing through the body. In one of Cullis' provers, Miss D. (there were six provers, three of them women; all took the Æ tincture), the entire left half of the body became numb, the left half of the head being sharply divided in sensation from the other half. These symptoms, with the many head pains and fulness in the head, give the correspondence in hemiplegia, in which Xan . has been given with success. Two additional provings on women appear in C. D. P . (quoting from Publ. Mass. Hom. Soc .). In these provings 20- to 100-drop doses of the tincture were taken, and symptoms of great severity were produced. Both provers had severe dysmenorrhœal pains, with increased and anticipating flow. This is the characteristic of Xan . The symptoms in each case roused the prover from sleep with pain and suffocation; the pain being confined to head, heart, throat, and pelvis. Many of the pains were radiating — from above right eye over head; from right ovary down thigh and in other directions. Left-sided numbness was present in one; who also had symptoms of levitation and disordered sensation. In dysmenorrhœa Xan . has a wide range. Cullis, who had most success in cases of dysmenorrhœa and amenorrhœa, relates these cases: ( 1 ) Miss A., 25, brunette, had menstrual irregularity since commencement; would go three, four, or five months, and then her sufferings were excruciating. When she came under treatment had had no menses for two months. Xan . 1 was given, 5 drops thrice daily. Menses appeared in three days and were painless. ( 2 ) Miss B., fair, nervous, had menses suppressed by getting feet wet, being then a week over time. Xan . 1x, 5 drops every three hours, brought on menses next day. Cullis thinks Xan . especially Suited to women of spare habit, nervous temperament, and delicate organisations. Leucorrhœa with amenorrhœa he regards as a strong indication. P. C. Majumdar ( Ind. H, R ., viii. 21) cured a case of uterine fibroid with Xan . 3x: An emaciated, feeble, wrinkled woman, 56, widow, had been advised by allopaths to have an operation for tumour. Menstruation had ceased fifteen years before. It had always been profuse and painful, and preceded and followed by leucorrhœa. She had neuralgic pain in right ovarian region; a hard nodular tumour size of a small orange, painful on deep pressure. Fetid, yellowish white discharge from vagina. Patient was nervous, depressed; lazy and sleepy even in the daytime. Appetite poor; disgust for food. Xan . 3x was given night and morning. In a week the pain was better and discharge less. In four weeks Majumdar found the patient a changed person. The tumour was much softer and reduced by half. In six months the tumour had gone, and the patient was quite well, Xan . having been taken intermittently all the time. Xan . belongs to the Rutaceæ, and, like Ruta , has a vulnerary action, as I discovered in this case: Miss X., 28, injured her right ulnar nerve at the elbow by repeatedly striking it against the edge of a bath whilst washing some articles. For two months she had had to keep the arm in a sling. A few weeks after that the arm swelled. Some eight months after the injury I saw her. The pain centred in the ulnar nerve where it crosses the inner condyle of the humerus, though there was pain above and below as well. I gave Ruta 30, which gave some relief to the pain, and relieved a frontal headache to which the patient was subject. The arm becoming less well, I gave Xan . 12 four times a day. This made a distinct improvement in the arm, and also relieved a dysmenorrhœa to which Miss X. was subject. After persistent treatment with various attenuations of Xan . the nerve lost its sensitiveness, and the patient could use her arm freely. Xan . 1 in five-drop doses night and morning, with a liniment of Xan . Æ , proved most effective. A patient to whom I gave Xan . 3x had immediately a hot pricking pain in right ovary. Among the Peculiar Sensations are: As if top of head would be taken off by flashes of throb-like pain. As if bewildered with pain in back of head. Feeling of looseness or quivering of brain. As if head falling to pieces. As if head surrounded by a tight band. Eyes as if full of sand. As if pepper in mouth and throat. As of a bunch in throat. Tongue as if expanding and contracting. As if throat swollen and enlarged. Throat as if in a vice. Back of neck as if stiff. Coccyx as if elongated. As if floating in the air. As if walking on wool. As if sunk deep in bed. As if body expanded. Many pains are radiating; some are sudden, arouse from sleep, and cause the patient to catch her breath. Pains are excruciating, unbearable, and are accompanied with red, hot face; but the heart pains = pallor. The symptoms are: < By moving head suddenly. Neck pain is > by pressure and by throwing head back. Lying down > . Drink of ice-water > . Headache is > by cold water and in open air. Pains are < in morning; 4 a.m.

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Prickly Ash. Rutaceæ.
A shrub from five to ten feet in height, growing in woods and moist, shady places throughout the Northern, Middle and Western States.
The tincture is prepared from the fresh bark.
Proved by Cullis, Pub. Mass. Hom. Soc., vol. 2, p. 1861-6, p. 267.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Dysmenorrhœa , Burck, Org., vol. 1, p. 484 ; Woodvine, N. E. M. G., vol. 8, p. 22 ; Frantz, Hah. Mo., vol. 12, p. 382 ; Amenorrhœa , N. N., Anal. Therap., vol. 1, p. 129 ; Williams, U. S. M. & S. J., Oct., 1871 ; Davis, M. I., vol. 11, p. 584 ; Incipient phthisis , Conant, Org., vol. 1, p. 324 ; Cough , Davis, M. I., vol. 11, p. 584.

Nervous, frightened feeling.
Depression and weakness.
Indifference and malaise.

Pain over eyes, with throbbing above root of nose.
Head dull and aching.
Frontal headache.
Severe frontal headache with dizziness.
A dull headache, in a space not larger than half a dollar, over nose.
Diffused pain in upper part of forehead ; < in right side ; pain extends to base of brain, with soreness.
Throbbing headache over right eye, with nausea.
Darting pain in left temple, recurring again and again.
A tightening of scalp and heavy pain in temples ; increase of head difficulties with a great heat and quiet flowing (menstrual), being two days in advance of proper time ; some headache.
Pain in left side of head and left elbow.
Heavy feeling in top of head.
About upper part of cranium, an achy feeling accompanied by flashes of throblike pain, as if top of head were about to be taken off.
Pain in back of head, also a bewildered sensation.
Head feels full.
Pressure in head, with fulness of veins.
Tightness of head, with pain increasing over eyes.
Headache, with sleepy feeling in morning.
Shaking head produces a feeling of looseness or quivering of brain, followed by dizziness.
As if head were surrounded by a tight band. θ Dysmenorrhœa.

Watering of eyes and nose.
Lachrymation, pain in lid of right eye.
Dull, heavy, grinding pain in left eye.
Ophthalmia.

Ringing in ears, more particularly in right Dull pain in right ear seeming to affect jaw socket ; does not know whether his tooth or his ear aches.
Darting pain under and back of right ear.

Right nostril seems filled up ; discharge of dry and bloody scales of mucus.
Dryness of both nostrils.
Discharge of mucus from nose, with congested feeling, as if it were about to bleed.
Fluent coryza.

Pain in right jaw-socket.

Dull pain in left side of lower jaw.

Ptyalism ; tongue coated yellow.

Peppery taste in mouth, fauces and throat.
Burning and dry feeling in mouth and tongue.

Peppery sensation ; soreness, with expectoration of tough mucus.
Feeling of a bunch in left side of throat when swallowing, shifting to right.
Pain and soreness in right side of throat.
Throbbing in throat, and sensation of swelling.
A feeling of enlargement of throat.

No appetite.

Anorexia, could eat but a few mouthfuls at breakfast, and could only drink half a cup of coffee, which was vomited soon afterward.

Empty eructations, with slight taste of ingesta.
Nausea, with headache.
Slight nausea, with sense of oppression at stomach ; nausea increased, accompanied by frequent chills.

Feeling of fulness or pressure in epigastrium ; fluttering.

Some pain in right side below ribs.

Colic pain in right iliac region.
Rumbling, with soreness on pressure.
Flatulence.
Soon after waking, at 7 A. M., severe griping abdominal pains, with thin, brown, diarrheic discharge, mixed with some mucus.
Griping pain, on waking, in morning, continued at intervals through day, with general feeling of indifference and malaise.

Constipation in morning.
Griping pains 7 A. M., with thin, brown stools, mixed with mucus.
Epidemic dysentery, characterized by spasmodic tenesmus, intestinal spasms, tympanitis, etc.
Inodorous discharges, with tenesmus.
Cholera, in stage of collapse.

Urine at night and next morning, scanty and high-colored.
Profuse, light-colored urine : nervous women.

Ovarian pain : with scanty and retarded menses ; extending down genito-crural nerves ; and sacral pains during pregnancy.
Menses appeared one week before usual time ; attended with a good deal of pain.
Dysmenorrhœa : with agonizing pains, driving patient almost distracted ; neuralgic pain runs along course of genito-crural nerve ; in women of spare habit and of a delicate, nervous temperament ; with headache, especially over left eye, commencing day before menses ; fulness in head ; eyes congested, with photophobia ; face flushed and feverish ; agonizing bearing down ; abundant discharge ; excruciating pain in loins and lower abdomen.
Menstrual flow : too early and profuse ; pains down thighs ; scanty and retarded.
Constant headache, < during menses, at which time she also suffered agonizing pains in pelvic region.
Severe headache, generally over left eye, commencing day before menses ; sense of fulness in head, with feeling as if surrounded by a tight band ; eyes congested, great photophobia ; noises aggravate symptoms ; face flushed and feverish ; constant agonizing bearing-down in abdomen as if everything were being forced out ; pain in back as if broken ; pain starting at iliac crest and shooting down limbs to knees ; screams out in agony ; no relief in any position ; discharge very scanty, thick, almost black, in strings and clots, intermitting every other day, and lasting two weeks ; perfectly well between periods. θ Dysmenorrhœa.
Amenorrhœa for five months ; face and legs œdematous ; very nervous, sensitive to least noise, hysterical mood ; voice tremulous ; fears she is going to die ; general chlorotic appearance, constipation, scanty frequent and dark urine.
Amenorrhœa for five months, with severe pains in right ovary ; constant headache ; bearing down and tension in hypogastric region.
Amenorrhœa from getting feet wet ; lasting six months ; emaciation with cough ; dirty-grey expectoration ; pale face, night sweats.
Miss ---, æt. 19, four months ago took cold by getting her feet wet ; no menses since ; no appetite ; the sight of food almost nauseates, smallest amount distresses ; cannot sleep ; bowels constipated, bloated ; urine scant and high-colored ; nervous ; discouraged, don't care whether she lives or dies ; limbs below knees bloated ; shortness of breath ; cheeks colorless. θ Amenorrhœa.
Great increase of leucorrhœa during the time when menses should appear.

After-pains.
Profuse lochia.

Hoarseness, with husky feeling in throat ; obliged to clear throat frequently.
Aphonia from cold or general debility.

Shortness of breath.
Constant desire to take a long breath.

Slight hacking cough.
Dry cough night and day, from sheer exhaustion could scarcely turn herself in bed ; face pale, bloated ; dark rings about eyes ; head full and heavy ; lips colorless ; tongue pale and flabby ; shortness of breath ; no appetite ; bowels constipated ; urine light-colored, alkaline, sp. gr. 1025 ; fluttering in stomach, pain in left side ; limbs weak and bloated.

Tightening about chest, with inclination to gape.
Tightness of chest, difficulty to inflate chest.
Pain in left side, under fourth rib.
Sharp pains in right side, of a neuralgic character.
Oppression of chest, with a desire to take deep inspiration.
Sharp shooting pains in right side (like pleurisy pains), occasionally extending through to shoulder blade ; continual desire to take a long breath.
Menses irregular and scanty ; tight, dry cough, which hurts chest and shoulders ; bowels almost constantly loose ; profuse night sweats ; is getting very much wasted and weakened ; frequent violent headache, affecting whole head, and sometimes accompanied by vomiting ; feet and ankles œdematous ; bubbly mucous rales, especially distinct in apex of left lung ; whole appearance bloodless and miserable ; family history of phthisis ; thinks she is "going into a decline."

Slight pain in left side and under left shoulder blade, also in left hip.

Pain in right shoulder and arm.
Pain and pricking feeling in right arm, extending to third finger.
Pricking and throbbing sensation in left arm and fingers.
Severe pain in right arm, commencing just above bend of elbow.
Whole left arm and shoulder numb.
Pain in left elbow and left side of head.
Dull pain in left elbow, passing to palm of hand, then to shoulder.
Pain in both elbows.
Severe pain in wrist, extending to thumb.
A flash of pain in right thumb, extending to hand.

Severe neuralgic pains in course of genito-crural nerves. θ Dysmenorrhœa.
Excessive weakness of lower limbs. θ Chlorosis.
Pain in left leg, between hip and knee.
Weakness in lower limbs, with pain in knees ; pain of extremities increased, accompanied by frequent chills.
Legs and feet feel tired.
Pain in left knee very severe ; pain has lasted, without cessation, a little more than half an hour.
Dull pain in right knee.
A flash of pain in calf of right leg.
Pain in ankle.
Pain in left heel.
Pain in both feet, shooting up to knees.

Pain in limbs, neuralgic, shooting ; numbness and weakness.
Dull pain in left knee ; also in left elbow, extending to hand, then in left side and top of left foot.

Paralysis of single members.
Hemiplegia (after Nux vom. failed).
Pricking sensation, shocks as from electricity.
Numbness, < on left side.

Continued gaping ; drowsiness.
Slept hard and heavy ; dreamed of flying about over tops of houses.
Awoke in morning, languid and depressed.

Morning : headache, with sleepy feeling ; griping pain on waking ; languid and depressed.
At 7 A. M. : griping pains in abdomen.
Night and day : dry cough.

Getting feet wet : amenorrhœa.

Sense of heat all over veins, with a desire to be bled ; flash of heat from head to foot.
Frequent chills, with pains in extremities ; nausea.
Typhoid fever, in stage of collapse.

Intermittent : darting in left temple.
At intervals : griping pain.

A feeling of numbness through whole of left side of body from head to foot, the division made perceptible in head, affecting half of nose ; this feeling lasted two or three minutes.
Left : darting in temple ; pain in head and elbow ; pain in eye ; pain in lower jaw ; headache over eye ; pain under fourth rib ; pain under shoulder blade ; pain in hip ; pricking and throbbing in arm and fingers ; arm and shoulder numb ; pain in thigh ; pain in knee ; pain in heel ; pain in top of foot ; numbness <.
Right : pain in forehead < ; throbbing over eye ; pain in eyelid ; ringing in ear < ; dull pain in ear and jaw-socket ; darting under and back of ear ; pain and soreness in throat ; pain below ribs ; neuralgic pain in side ; pain in shoulder and arm ; pricking in arm ; flash of pain in thumb ; pain in knee ; pain in calf.
Left to right : feeling of a bunch in throat.

As if top of head would be taken off by flashes of throblike pain ; as if bewildered, with pain in back of head ; a feeling of looseness or quivering of brain ; as of pepper in mouth and throat ; as of a bunch in throat ; as if throat were swollen and enlarged ; as if head were surrounded by a tight band ; as if legs and feet were tired ; pricking as from electric shocks.
Pain : over eyes ; in left side of head ; in back of head ; in lid of right eye ; in right jaw-socket ; in right side of throat ; in right side below ribs ; in left side under shoulder blade and in hip ; in right shoulder and arm ; in right arm to third finger ; in left elbow ; in elbows ; in left leg between hip and knee ; in knees ; in ankle and left heel.
Agonizing pain : dysmenorrhœa.
Excruciating pain : in loins and lower abdomen.
Severe pain : in right ovary ; in right arm above bend of elbow ; in wrist to thumb.
Dull, heavy, grinding pain : in left eye.
Shooting : like pleurisy ; in right side ; from feet to knees ; in limbs.
Pricking : in right arm to third finger ; in left arm and fingers.
Darting : in left temple ; under and back of right ear.
Neuralgic pain : along course of genito-crural nerve ; in r. side ; in limbs.
Colic pain : in right iliac region ; after waking.
Throbbing : above root of nose ; over right eye ; in vertex ; in throat.
Burning : in mouth and tongue.
Soreness : in right side of throat.
Dull pain : in right ear and jaw-socket ; in left side of lower jaw ; in left elbow to palm of hand, then to shoulder ; in r. knee ; in left knee ; in top of left foot.
Pressure : in head ; in epigastrium.
Tension : in hypogastric region ; about chest.
Tightness : of head.
Fulness : in head ; in veins ; in epigastrium.
Heaviness : in top of head.
Heat : in veins ; in flashes from head to foot.
Dryness : of nostrils ; in mouth.
Numbness : in left arm and shoulder ; in limbs ; of left side.

Acts upon nervous system, mostly upon sensory nerves, but causes a marked depression of vitality, a non-reactive state ; hence its use in chlorosis, measles, neuralgia, etc., when there is sensorial and bodily depression.
Mucous membrane smarts as from pepper.
Old and indolent ulcers.
Dysmenorrhœa.

Measles, dulness, bewilderment, drowsiness, want of sufficient development of the eruption.

Spare habit, nervous temperament, delicate organization.
Girl, æt. 16, suffering four years ; dysmenorrhœa.
Girl, æt. 17, family history of phthisis ; incipient phthisis.
Girl, æt. 20, well developed and healthy-looking, nervous temperament ; dysmenorrhœa.

Compare : Act. rac . (headache), Bryon . (lack of eruption in measles, etc.), Colocyn . (dysmenorrhœa with reflex neuralgias), Gnaphal . (sciatica).

Nervous, frightened feeling.
Depression and weakness.

Dullness.
Bewilderment; pain in back of head.
Throbbing headache; over right eye, with nausea.
Pain over the eyes with throbbing above root of nose.
Aching and flashes of throb-like pain as if top of head was about being taken off.
Tightness of the scalp: 23.

Right nostril seems filed up.
Discharge of mucus, of dry and bloody scales.

Peppery taste in mouth, fauces and throat.

Peppery sensation; soreness, with expectoration of tough mucus.
Feeling of a bunch in left side of throat when swallowing, shifting to right.

No appetite.

Sense of oppression at stomach; frequent chills: 40.

Feeling of fullness on pressure.
Fluttering.

Griping pains 7 A.M.; with thin, brown stools, mixed with mucus.

Profuse, light-colored urine: nervous women.

Ovarian pains extending down the genito-crural nerves: 33.
Dreadful distress and pain; headache; menstrual flow too early and profuse; pains down the anterior of thighs; neuralgic dysmenorrhœa.

After-pains, when of the above character and with profuse lochia.

Hoarse, husky feeling in the throat.

Desire to take a long breath.
Tight feeling about the chest, inclined to gape.

Severe neuralgic pains in the course of the genito-crural nerves: 23.
Excessive weakness of lower limbs; chlorosis.

Pains in the limbs, neuralgic, shooting.
Numbness and weakness.

Pricking sensation; shocks as from electricity.
Numbness, worse on left side.

Chills, pains in limbs; nausea: 16.
Flashes of heat.
Sense of heat in veins.

Acts upon the nervous system, mostly upon the sensory nerves, but causes a marked depression of vitality, a non-reactive state, hence its use in chlorosis, measles, neuralgia, etc., when there is sensorial and bodily depression.
Mucous membrane smarts as from pepper.
Catarrh.

Measles, dulness, bewilderment, drowsiness, want of sufficient development of the eruption (See catarrhal symptoms. Clinical, but trustworthy).

Compare with: Act. rac., Gelsem., Bellad.

A tincture is made of the fresh bark of the prickly ash, Xanthoxylum fraxineum, Willd.

Sharp shooting pain. ▶ Neuralgic pain in right side. ▶ Aching all over; in side; in left side under left scapula and left hip. ▶ Indescribable sensation at 4 P.M., thought I was dying, whole body seemed falling to pieces, could not walk straight, the atmosphere seemed blue, light flashed before my eyes, body seemed elastic and as if on the stretch, tongue seemed to alternately expand and contract, distant ringing in left ear, could not eat but craved ice-water, which relieved the nausea, left leg heavy, on lying down pain in sacral region, amelioration at 10 P.M.

Malaise; in morning on rising. ▶ Thrill over whole body. ▶ Sensation in bed as if I were sunken deep, on sitting up sensation as if floating. ▶ Restless, felt rather easier lying. ▶ Weakness; in morning on waking. ▶ Inability to walk straight or talk straight. ▶ Falling asleep of left side if I sat still any time. ▶ Numbness of whole body in morning on waking; in morning on rising; of left side in morning on rising; of left side from head to foot, affecting half of nose. ▶ Aggravation at night and in morning. ▶ Amelioration from vomiting; A. after lunch; after eating, but was tired and ached all over.

Nervous, frightened feeling. ▶ Feeling as if something would happen. ▶ Depression; in morning on waking, with languor. ▶ Felt as if I would rather die than live. ▶ Felt as though I would like to take enough to kill myself, during the headache. ▶ Indifference and malaise. ▶ No life nor ambition to do anything. ▶ Stupid feeling after supper.

Aching; in morning, with sleepiness; and dullness; and weight in it, intolerance of motion or shock, every step sends a shock to head; throbbing; delaying sleep, with bright star-shaped spots dancing up and down on shutting. ▶ Eyes. ▶ Fulness. ▶ Felt large; with intolerance of light. ▶ Tightness, with pain increasing over eyes. ▶ Dull, heavy feeling. ▶ Soreness to touch. ▶ Throbbing, and in neck. ▶ Feeling as if dropping to pieces, fear that something would happen. ▶ Feeling of looseness or quivering in brain on shaking head. ▶ Vertigo; in morning on rising; when walking; on lifting head; with black spots dancing before eyes; as if falling forward; in morning on attempting to rise, everything became black, with nausea preventing me from eating breakfast, vomiting of the coffee and toast that I had succeeded in eating.

Aching; in a spot over nose; over right eye; amel. open air and cool water; in upper part, agg. right side, pain extends to base of brain, with soreness; extending into orbits; waking her at 4 A.M.; throbbing over right eye, with nausea; burning, agg. sudden motion of head, extending to vertex and into orbits, with heaviness in eyelids and bright spots before eyes.

Pain; with feeling as if top of head were lifted off; intermittent darting, in left ; sudden screwing P. through T., spreading over heat at 6 P.M., with heavy pressure on vertex, after the pain has lasted an hour blur before eyes, as if looking through a blue lace veil, dizziness and nausea, at 9 P.M. loud noise in left ear (like a windmill?), the pain prevented sleep till 12.30, awakened at 4 A.M. by nausea, attempted to rise, but was so giddy that I pitched forward, the dizziness amel. lying down, but not the nausea.

Weight on vertex. ▶ Pain in vertex; in upper part of cranium, with flashes of throblike pain as if the top of head would be taken off; in left side of head and in left elbow; in occiput, with bewildered sensation. ▶ Tightening of scalp, with heavy pain in temples, afterwards increase of head difficulties, with heat and quiet menstrual flow (two days two early).

Bloodshot, with red margins, feeling as if full of sand; B. and heavy, with red burning lids; B. and sensitive to light, bright images before eyes, dilated pupils. ▶ Heavy grinding pain in left. ▶ Motion is painful if much out of field of vision, and eyes are sore on pressure. ▶ Pain in right lid. ▶ Vision of blue sparks. ▶ Things look far away.

Pain in right or in jaw-socket, he does not know whether it is ear to tooth that aches; darting, under and back of right. ▶ Sensitive. ▶ Ringing; in right. ▶ Roaring. ▶ Noise in right like a valve opening and shutting.

Dryness. ▶ Right nostril seem filled up. ▶ Catarrhal symptoms, watering of eyes and nose. ▶ Discharge of mucus, with congested feeling as if about to bleed; D. of dry and bloody scales of mucus. ▶ Bleeding.

Flushed; but body cold. ▶ Pain in lower jaw and left side.

Neuralgia of the face, or left lower jaw.

Amenorrhœa from getting her feet wet, scanty, high-colored urine, nausea at the sight of food, complete discouragement. ▶ After-pains. ▶ Ovarian neuralgia, with violent pains in the loins and the lower part of the abdomen, agg. left side, extending down the thigh. ▶ Neuralgic dysmenorrhœa, pains going down the anterior portions of the thighs, mostly left-sided. ▶ Neuralgic dysmenorrhœa, with neuralgic headaches, especially over left eye, congestion of head and eyes, photophobia, great bearing down in the abdomen, pains in the back and down the legs, menses very scanty, thick, almost black.

Sciatica, agg. hot weather. ▶ Sciatica of the anterior crural nerve, after Gnaph.

Tongue coated; whit; whitish-yellow. ▶ Burning and dry feeling in M. and tongue. ▶ Peppery taste; extending to stomach.

Aching; in right side; on touch; and it tired me to talk. ▶ Feeling as if in a vise in morning on rising. ▶ Soreness of right side; S., with expectoration of tough mucus. ▶ Feeling of enlargement. ▶ Feeling of a bunch in left side when swallowing after dinner, on going to bed it shifted to right side. ▶ Dryness and hoarseness; D., and it was a great exertion to talk. ▶ Burning in œsophagus, with stinging.

Loss of appetite; with great thirst, craved coffee and lemonade. ▶ Thirst for large quantities at a time. ▶ Empty eructations, with slight taste of ingesta. ▶ Nausea; at the smell of breakfast; amel. a glass of ice-water; with frequent chills; with headache; with oppression of stomach. ▶ Fulness or pressure at epigastrium. ▶ Faintness as if fasting, but I did not care to ear more than a few mouthfuls, which nauseated me.

Rumbling, with soreness on pressure. ▶ Flatulence. ▶ Griping at 7 A.M., soon after waking, with brown diarrhœa mixed with mucus, next morning G. on waking, continued at intervals through the day, with indifference and malaise; G. and pain, then watery diarrhœa, fever and chill (the diarrhœa could not be reproduced by large doses). ▶ Boring deep in right hypochondrium, amel. hot compresses, steady pressure and constant motion, agg. lying or sitting. ▶ Pain in right side below ribs. ▶ Dragging in lower part of pelvis and back.

Stinging in right after stool, with burning and hæmorrhage as from hæmorrhoids. ▶ Urging, stool large, dark brown, rather loose, causing excoriation and pain. ▶ Stools watery, small, dark, offensive, frequent, followed by burning pain in rectum and anus; loose S., then burning and smarting. ▶ Constipation in morning, stool after supper, next day three S., on third day S. before and after breakfast. ▶ Slight S., twice in one day.

Profuse; slightly increased, sp. gr. varied from 1015 to 1019. ▶ Scanty and high-colored at night and next morning; S., high-colored, sp. gr. 1025, micturition frequent. ▶ Thirty oz. in twenty-four hours, sp. gr. 1030, reaction acid. ▶ High-colored.

Leucorrhœa milky, white; whitish after menses. ▶ Shooting from region of right ovary to hip, thigh and back, causing me to walk the floor an hold my breath, with gushing milk-white leucorrhœa, ceasing suddenly. ▶ Cutting in right ovarian region, extending down thigh and over hip, in morning on waking, could find no position comfortable. ▶ Sudden sharp pain in region of right ovary, which later radiated down thigh and across to left hip, amel. lying down and drawing up legs. ▶ Pain in ovaries amel. drawing up knees and by heat; in left, extending down high; in left during menses, sudden, gradually increasing and dying away as it came.

Menses profuse; and too early; and early, preceded by leucorrhœa; and too early, bright red, slight dysmenorrhœa, amel. walking and hot applications, very nervous, easily, startled and hysterical. ▶ Menses too early and painful; too early, with intermittent cramplike pain in head and abdomen, inability to lie still, hungry, but food nauseated, drank much, urine profuse, left side numb, nape lame, eye twitched, pupils dilated, face flushed, blue light before eyes, chill, nausea, when vomiting it seemed as if stomach rose and fell, pulse rapid, restless night, sleep at intervals, next day awoke with pain in right ovarian region, frontal headache, head light, left side numb, left foot went to sleep, menses profuse.

Vocal cords affected. ▶ Hoarseness; in open air; with frequent necessity to clear the throat. ▶ Aphonia. ▶ Cough in open air; C. agg. cold draught, amel. warm room; hacking; hacking, without expectoration, sometimes from tickling in throat, again deep in bronchi; spasmodic, voiceless, stifled, about every twenty minutes, with scraping, even sore feeling under sternum, during each attack in evening sharp pain in lower part of right lung. ▶ Suffocated sensation waking him at night. ▶ Dyspnœa, with increased action of heart; D., with cutting in lower part of right lung. ▶ Every inspiration an exertion and unsatisfactory, as deep breathing caused pain in lower part of right lung and in heart. ▶ Could not get air enough into lungs. ▶ Desire to take long breaths; and deep.

Shooting in right side like pleuritic pains, occasionally extending to scapula, constant desire to take a long breath. ▶ Pain in lower part of right lung on deep inspiration or coughing. ▶ Strained pain on deep inspiration, agg. waking in night and turning in bed. ▶ Constriction as from running or as from weight on lungs. ▶ Tightening, with inclination to gape.

Intermittent cutting in region passing through body antero-posteriorly, making me hold my breath and turn pale even to lips, agg. inspiration, after each attack was thirsty, flushed and exhausted. ▶ Pain in region starting me out of a sound sleep, apex beat to be seen and felt over large area, with suffocating feeling, had to sit up in bed and turn one way and then another, with cough without expectoration, three attacks at night, once almost unconscious from the tremulous beating of heart, pulse rapid, temperature high, slept hardly at all.

Rapid; and feeble, irregular. ▶ Slow; and soft. ▶ Throbbing in carotids.

Pain in nape; in nape, amel. pressing head backward, with stiffness; in neck and right shoulder, extending down back, inability to turn head to left ; rheumatic, in nape, amel. pressing head backward; drawing, in nape, extending down right scapula. ▶ Tired feeling in nape. ▶ Stiffness.

Twitching of muscles. ▶ Pain, agg. cervical region and upper part of sacral region; in spine. ▶ Muscles tired. ▶ Coccyx seemed elongated, sensitive to pressure and aching, could not sit except on a cushion.

Heavy to lift. ▶ Joints seemed loosened. ▶ Pain in right arm; inside right just above elbow; in right beginning just above elbow. ▶ Arms better from being twisted. ▶ Arms felt as if I had carried a weight. ▶ Numbness of left shoulder and arm. ▶ Pain in elbows; in left elbow, passing to palm, then to shoulder; in left knee and left elbow extending to hand, then in left side and top of left foot; in wrist extending to thumb; sudden cramplike, in wrists and knees, ending in a steady aches; flashing, in right thumb, extending to hand.

Inability to walk straight. ▶ Weakness. ▶ Pain; in left thigh; in knee. ▶ Twitching in left knee and trembling in right. ▶ Pain in right leg in morning; flash of pain in right calf. ▶ Legs weak; and feet. ▶ Pain in right ankle; in left heel; shooting from feet to knees. ▶ It seemed as if the floor were cotton-wool.

Blotches on face, with boils.

Gaping. ▶ Drowsiness; all the morning; in evening. ▶ Sleep from 4 till 7 P.M. and then from 10 P.M. till 7 A.M. ▶ Slept hard all night; hard and heavy, dreamed of flying about over tops of houses; heavy, with constant dreams. ▶ Frequent waking. ▶ Sleep restless, frightful dreams of being killed or burned. ▶ Night restless, although very sleepy, constantly twisted and turned, and when I did sleep dreamed of being chased and when overtaken and about to be killed I could not make a sound to called for help. ▶ Dream and suffocation, waking me. ▶ Dream that my throat grew up, I woke in fright about 2 A.M., with shaking, and left arm felt like lead and was numb, the position may have caused the numbness.

Temperature low. ▶ Chilliness; frequently, with pain in limbs; in feet in morning on rising. ▶ Temperature high. ▶ Heat; in all veins, with desire to be bled, flash of heat from head to foot; in flashes; in flushes over face and head.

Dysmenorrhœa, with agonizing burning pains, extending along the crural nerves, and a feeling as if the limbs were paralyzed; usually with profuse menstruation, and agonized bearing-down, particularly in the thighs, < left side.
Ovarian neuralgia.
Menorrhagia.
Menstruation early, profuse, painful.
Sciatica of the anterior crural nerve.