Characteristics Aconite – Antimonium Crudum

ACONITE.

Mind.—Results of vexation combined with anxiety and fright. Great nervous excitement and feverish restlessness. Lively phantasies. Mental instability. Delirium, mostly at night. Anxious impatience. Inconsolable anxiety and piteous wailing. Unappeasable frenzy and agonized tossing about. Very easily frightened. Alternate weeping and laughing or singing. Fear of ghosts. Lamenting with fear of impending death, and doubt of salvation. Fixed premonition of death, she foretells the day or hour (in childbed).

Vertigo.—With fainting on rising. Giddiness with vanishing of sight on raising up.

Head.—Congestion: With fulness and throbbing therein, more towards evening, with black vision, roaring in ears and a fiery red face; with external and internal heat. Burning heat as from hot seething water in, with external sweat and a pale face. Fulness, pressure and heaviness in forehead as if brain and eyes would be forced out, with a hot red face. Meningitis. Crackling like tinsel in forehead, temples and nose Feeling: Of a ball rising in; of backward sticking in; as if brain fluctuated to and fro; of painful pulling at hair of vertex. Worse: Stooping; talking; motion; raising up; evening; night; becoming heated; warm wraps; dry cold winds. Better: rest; uncovering; warmth; sitting erect; open air.

Eyes.—Inflamed and protruding, with dark red bloodvessels and unbearable pains. Sparkling. Inflammatory swelling of lids. Dilated pupils. Photophobia. Lachrymation.

Nose.—Epistaxis. Extremely sensitive smell. Stuffed coryza.

Face.—Red, turning deathly pale on raising up. Hot, bloated. Pale. Sweat on side whereon he lies. Sweat on upper lip. Lips: Black; dry, peeling off.

Teeth.—Throbbing ache after taking cold.

Mouth.—Dry. Inflammation of, and of fauces, with dark redness and violent fever. Crawling in pharynx. Sticking sore throat when swallowing and coughing. Tongue coated white. Trembling, stammering speech.

Appetite, etc.—Aversion to food. Violent, unquenchable thirst.

Taste.—Bitter: In mouth; of all food and drink, except water.

Vomiting.—Bloody mucus; fluids.

Stomach.—Tensive pressing pain as from a weight in.

Hypochondria.—Tensive pressure transversely across. Inflammation and sore pain in liver. Pressing in hepatic region.

Abdomen.—Inflamed, distended and painful to touch. Flatulent colic after taking cold.

Stool.—Small, soft, with pressure. White. Constipated.

Urine.—Brown, dark, fiery and infrequent. Suppressed. Anxious urging to urinate.

Menses.—Continue too long. Uterine hæmorrhage.

Respiration.—Sighing. Rapid (or slow), with open mouth. Short: As from compression of chest; especially when raising up and during sleep. Offensive breath. Anxious suffocative attacks Anxiety, which impedes breathing.

Cough.—From tobacco smoke. Stitches in

chest during. Clear ringing or whistling, excited by burning sticking in larynx and trachea, generally dry, rarely in morning and during day expectoration of thick white mucus or of mucus mixed with coagulated blood; blood-colored, or of pure blood.

Larynx.—Inflammation of. Paralysis of epiglottis. Hoarseness.

Chest.—Congestion of. Inflammation of. Painful stitches in, during exhalation, coughing and motion (also of the arms only). Sticking in sides of, with disposition to complain and weep, slightly > when lying on back. Sense of terrible anxiety in. Pain in, from taking cold or from fright. Anxious palpitation.

Back.—Stiffness in nape. Crawling in. Bruised feeling in, and in lumbar region. Lumbar pain when turning over.

Upper Extremities.—Laming, drawing pain in arms and legs, without swelling. Hot hands with cold feet. Swelling of hands. Crawling in fingers.

Lower Extremities.—Powerless in hip and knee joints. Stiffness in legs during motion (after taking cold).

Generalities.—Bruised feeling over entire body and heaviness of all limbs. Cannot lie on painful side. Constant desire to lie down. Painful sensitiveness of body to touch, he will not allow himself to be handled. Unbearable pains. Extraordinarily sudden sinking of strength. When sitting still most complaints disappear, but at night in bed, they are almost unendurable. Swollen feeling in many parts. Takes cold from exposure to dry cold winds. Results of taking cold.

Skin.—Dry, burning heat of. Hot, burning swelling of injured parts. Jaundice. Measles. Purpura.

Sleep.—Starting up in affright during. Sleeplessness, with constant tossing about from anxiety, and flightiness with closed eyes. Somnolency, with anxious delirium and rapid breathing. Drowsiness, with inability to.

Fever.—Pulse: Mostly very full, hard and accelerated; seldom small and thready or imperceptible. Cold sensation in bloodvessels. Chill: At beginning of attacks, most severe evenings after lying down; often with hot cheeks and contracted pupils. From uncovering or from touch. Internal chilliness, with dry, hot skin and disposition to uncover. Often internal heat, with anxiety and red cheeks during chill. Shivering extending from feet to chest. Heat: Dry, burning, for the most part, proceeding from head and face, with great thirst for cold drinks. With uncommon excitement, restlessness, anxiety and agonized tossing about. Continued external, with inclination to uncover. Burning, with cold shiverings running over one at the same time. Sweat: With feverish restlessness and inclination to uncover. Of parts lain on. Long-continued, over whole body, of a somewhat acid odor. Most on covered parts.

Allied Remedies.—Arn., Ars., BELL., BRY., CANTH., CHAM., Coff., Croc., Dulc., Gel., Graph., Lyc., MERC., Millef., Nux-v., Op., Phos., Phos-ac., Puls., RHUS-T., Ruta., SEP., Sul., Valer., Verat-a.

AGARICUS MUSCARIUS.

Mind.—Inclination to prophesying and versification. Timid or fearless, violent madness. Disinclination to speak and work.

Vertigo.—In the sunlight. Vertiginous giddiness early in the morning and in open air, as from spirituous liquors.

Head.—Headache, as from a nail pressing into side (r). Drawing ache extending to root of nose, in early morning when awaking. Twitching in forehead and temples. Sense of icy coldness on outside of. Worse: Sitting quietly; standing. Better: Gentle motion.

Eyes.—Disagreeable twitchings in.—Quivering lids.—Vision, dim, as of a mist before.

Nose.—Excoriated internally. Heightened sense of smell.

Face.—Tearing pains in. Itching of.

Teeth.—Tearing ache, < by cold.

Mouth.—Bad odor, as of horseradish, from. Excoriation of buccal cavity and tongue.

Appetite, etc.—Attacks of ravenous hunger in evening.

Eructations.—Empty, alternating with hiccough.

Stomach.—Pressure in, after eating.

Abodmen.—Pinching and cutting in, with diarrhœa.

Flatulence.—Copious discharge of flatus of a garlicky odor.

Stool. Hard, dark-colored, after previous constipation. Papescent, with much flatulence and abdominal pain.

Urine.—Clear, lemon-colored. Diminished.

Sexual Organs.—Greatly excited sexual desire with flaccid penis. Intense exhaustion after coition.

Respiration.—Compression of chest with frequent desire to take a deep breath. Tightness of chest and short breathing when walking.

Cough.—Easy expectoration of small, hard balls of mucus almost without cough.

Chest.—Nightly profuse sweat on.

Back.—Beaten and sprained sensation throughout whole. Great weakness in muscles of.

Upper Extremities.—Burning in upper and forearm, followed by white nodules with desquamation of epidermis. Trembling hands.

Lower Extremities.—Weariness and heaviness in legs. Tearing in entire length of legs, as if in marrow of bones, > motion.

Generalities.—Great sensitiveness of entire body, to pressure and cold air. Extraordinary weariness and bruised feeling after moderate exercise. Pains in limbs are continuous during rest and disappear during motion. Complaints often appear diagonally, for instance on right arm and left leg. Epileptic attacks with great physical exertion.

Skin.—Itching, burning and redness, as after freezing, on many parts, particularly on nose, ears, fingers and toes. Closely aggregated white miliary eruption with violent itching.

Sleep. Great sleepiness, worse after eating.

Fever.—Pulse: Somewhat accelerated in early morning, always slower as the day advances; very irregular and sometimes intermittent. Chills: And chilliness predominate, especially in cold, open air and when lifting the covers. Shivering over body running from above downward. Sense of chilliness with natural warmth of body. Heat: Slight, and almost exclusively on upper part of body. Sweat: Greasy, but not offensive, during sleep throughout night.—From slight motion.

Allied Remedies.—Bell., CALC-C., Coccl., coff., LYC., Nit-ac., NUX-V., Petr., Phos., Pul., Sep., SIL., Bek.

AGNUS CASTUS.

Mind.—Extraordinary distraction, absence of mind and want of recollection. Great anxiety, as tho' diarrhœa would ensue, with great weakness. Sadness with fear of impending death. Melancholy, hypochondriacal mood, dissatisfied with himself, incapable for work and indifferent to his surroundings. Alternate over-exaltation and want of self-esteem.

Head.—Contractive pain in, when reading. Pressive tearing in forehead and temples, more violent during motion. Headache in skull, as from remaining in a close, warm room. Biting itching on scalp. Tension, and chilliness in scalp with internal warmth thereof.

Eyes.—Corrosive itching on and above brows and on lids. Greatly dilated pupils.

Ears.—Roaring in.

Nose.—Odor, as of musk or herring, before.

Face.—Corrosive itching, especially on cheeks and under eyes.

Mouth.—Ulcers in, also on tongue.

Appetite, etc.—Thirstlessness with aversion to all drinks.

Taste.—Metallic, coppery, in mouth.

Eructation, etc.—Frequent hiccough with peevishness.

Qualmishness.—In gastric region.

Stomach.—Pinching in pit when sitting bent over.

Hypochondriæ.—Pressure in hepatic region < by touch. Swelling and induration of spleen.

Abdomen.—Sensation as tho' all the intestines were sinking downward. Ascites.

Stool.—Soft. Constipated.

Anus.—Deep, sharp stitches in and alongside of coccyx. Painful spots as if festering alongside anus when walking. Deep chaps and cracks at. Corrosive itching of perinæum.

Urine.—Increased discharge of.

Sexual Organs.—Yellowish discharge from urethra. Gonorrhœa with suppressed sexual desire. Cold testes. Swelled and indurated testes. Itching on. Flagging sexual powers, with torpid, cold, relaxed sexual parts. Desire wanting.

Menses.—Suppressed. Barrenness with both menses and sexual desire wanting.

Cough.—In evening in bed, before falling to sleep.

Upper Extremities.—Hard pressure in axilla and upper arm, more violent during motion.

Generalities.—Inflammatory swelling of joints. Sprained, swollen limbs, especially at ankle joints. Gouty nodes on joints.

Skin.—Corrosive itching here and there over entire body, > by scratching, but it rapidly returns. Itching around ulcers in evening.

Sleep.—Somnolency. Restless at night.

Fever.—Pulse: Weak and slow, often imperceptible. Chill: Internal, with trembling, while external skin is warm. Alternating with heat. Much shivering with cold hands. Chilliness without thirst. Predominates. Heat: Over-running, burning, most in face, with cold knees in evening in bed. Sweat: Almost exclusively on hands, when walking in open air.

Allied Remedies.—Calc-c., Con., Graph., Lyc., Merc., Nux-v., Oleand., Puls., Rhod., Sep., Sul.

ALOE.

Mind.—Disinclination and incapacity for mental labor, with speedy fatigue therefrom. Peevish and quarrelsome. Anthropophobia.

Vertigo.—As if he sat in a high chair, > by a nasal catarrh.

Head.—Shaking in, as if the brain were loose. Confused heaviness, pressing down into root of nose, outward towards temples, or like a weight on vertex. Aching above forehead, compelling him to make the eyes small, with heaviness of eyes and nausea. Headaches associated with abdominal symptoms. Worse: From stepping hard and heat. Better: After eating and from cold. Scalp sensitive to touch, yet pressure feels good.

Eyes.—Yellow rings before vision.

Ears.—Ache < when pressing teeth together.

Nose.—Red in cold air. Epistaxis.

Face.—And lips red. Sickly expression.

Mouth.—Teeth yellow; seem sharp and hurt the tongue. Dry, burnt feeling in. Sickening smell from. Salivation, with hunger after breakfast.

Appetite, etc.—Increased: For juicy or stimulating foods. Thirst for beer.

Taste.—Metallic; like ink; bitter; nauseous.

Eructations.—Bilious. Bitter after drinking water.

Nausea, etc.—Must sit still to avoid vomiting.

Stomach.—Distended, after drinking water. Pain in pit when making a misstep; it radiates backwards or upwards with every eructation, and then sinks back again.

Hypochondria.—Distention, better by passing flatus. Stitches in liver. Uneasiness with heat, pressure and tension in hepatic region. Worse: Standing Better: Bending forward or emission of flatus.

Abdomen.—Distention; Much flatulent rumbling. Heaviness in, as of a stone, which falls to side upon which she lies. Feeling: Of weakness; as if diarrhœa would ensue; as tho' she had taken cold in. Gurgling, griping and pulsating within. Sensation of a plug between symphysis, pubis and coccyx. Soreness of walls. Better: Pressure and discharge of flatus.

Stool.—Urgent diarrhœa of light-colored fæces, preceded and accompanied by flatus and gurgling in abdomen from 2 to 10 A. M., with a sense of insecurity in rectum. Sudden diarrhœa in morn-

ing on rising, followed by a feeling as if more ought to come. Involuntary: With passage of flatus; during micturition; although solid. Of gelatinous mucus. Diarrhœa, with hunger, < after eating. Loud, copious emission of hot, offensive flatus.

Anus, etc.—Weakness of sphincter, with loose sensation therein and fear lest stool should escape with flatus. Soreness, after stool. Itching hæmorrhoids; protrude during stool; > by cold water.

Urine.—On rising must run quickly to urinate.

Sexual Organs.—Determination of blood to pelvic organs, uterus, etc. Menses of dark, clotted blood, too early, too profuse and lasting too long. Increased sexual desire. Emissions without dreams.

Throat.—Hawking up thick, lumpy mucus, easily loosened.

Chest.—Stitches under mammæ.

Heart and Circulation.—Pain in cardiac region extending to left scapula. Varicose veins.

Neck.—Tension, with compression in nape behind ears.

Back.—Pain in, with heaviness in uterus. Lumbago alternating with headache. Heaviness with pressure. Bruised feeling in coccyx. Worse: Sitting or lying on back. Better: Motion.

Extremities.—Jerking, drawing and dull sticking in finger, knee and elbow joints. Weariness and heaviness. Weak ankles and wrists. Bruised pain in tendo-achilles.

Generalities.—General mental and physical relaxation, especially affecting the veins, intestinal canal and sphincters, with a sense of insecurity in the latter or involuntary evacuations. Determination of blood to liver, head, chest and pelvic viscera. Sensations of heaviness, heat, dryness and crawling predominate in all parts of body. Gelatinous secretions from mucous membranes. Produces its effects slowly.

Worse.—Stepping hard; heat; afternoon, especially the symptoms of mucous membranes.

Better.—Open air; cold applications.

Skin.—Golden yellow. Furuncles. Crawling, itching and biting in.

Sleep.—Interrupted by hæmorrhoidal irritation and sexual excitement. Dreams of having an involuntary stool.

Fever.—Chilliness during stool. Cold feeling in occiput. Shivering through whole body, with griping about umbilicus.

Allied Remedies.—Crot-t., Gamb., Gel., Hyos., Mur-ac., Nat-s., Nux-v., Oleand., Phos-ac., Pod., SUL.

ALUMINA.

Mind.—Inability to think connectedly. Continued great weakness of memory. Mental activity alternating with inability to think. Great anxiety and apprehension. He takes everything in bad part. Alternate paroxyms of laughing and weeping. He views everything in a gloomy and discouraging light.

Head.—Severe stitches in brain with inclination to vomit. Throbbing and pulsating in, or compressive pain over eyes, as if coming from temples, with congestion to eyes and nose and shaking chill. Humid scurf on temples. Worse: In early morning; walking in open air in evening. Better: Lying quiet; after eating.

Eyes.—Pressure in, which impedes opening them. At night they are agglutinated, by day full of tears. Squint of both.

Ears.—Stitches in. One ear is hot and red in evening. Purulent discharge from. Crepitation in when chewing.

Nose.—Redness and swelling of. Ulceration in. Sense of smell diminished.

Face.—Tension in skin as if egg albumen had dried thereon. Pale. Bulbous excrescences or boils on, and on nose.

Teeth.—Feel too long. Ache when chewing.

Mouth.—Painful soreness of entire mouth when eating. Constrictive sore throat when swallowing. Difficult, painful swallowing of food, as from narrowing

of œsophagus. In the evening and at night the throat pains are most intense, > by warm food and drink.

Appetite, etc.—Changeable. Bad effects of potatoes.

Eructation.—Sour, and heartburn.

Nausea.—And qualmishness when talking.

Stomach.—Constriction in, extending into throat and chest. Pressure in, in evening.

Hypochondriæ.—Painful soreness in hepatic region extending to epigastrium, when stooping. Pain in kidneys.

Abdomen.—Sticking pains in, extending up into chest. Cutting pains in bowels, > by warmth. Lead colic. Inguinal hernia.

Stool.—Difficult from want of peristaltic action and inactivity of intestinal canal. Of mucus.

Anus.—Varicose hæmorrhoids and itching of.

Urine.—Increased discharge of watery urine with burning.

Sexual Organs.—Excessive sexual desire. Frequent pollutions. All complaints are worse after pollutions.

Menses.—Too scant, too early and too short. Abdominal colic before and during. Acrid, corrosive leucorrhœa before and after.

Cough.—Early in the day, dry; later with expectoration. Short, dry, with arrested breathing.

Larynx.—Suddenly appearing hoarseness not > by hawking, mostly in afternoon and evening.

Chest.—Pressing pain in, at night. Constriction of when stooping. Thrusts at heart.

Back.—Pain in as if a hot iron were thurst thro' lowest vertebræ. Sticking in. Bruised pain in lumbar region when at rest.

Upper Extremities.—Paralytic heaviness of arms. Tearing from shoulders to fingers. Pain in arms extending to fingers, as if a hot iron was thrust thro' them. Humid scurf on forearm. Cracks on palmer surface of hands.

Lower Extremities.—Nightly stiffness, deadness and numbness of legs. Heaviness of legs.

Generalities.—Involuntary motions and twitchings of head and other parts. Sensory illusions; i. e., as if certain parts of body had become larger. Extraordinary lassitude and fatigue, particularly from talking. Sense of constriction in internal organs. He is > on alternate days. Many complaints are < in afternoon and when sitting. He feels best during moderate exercise, in evening and in open air.

Skin.—Herpes with itching, in evening. Humid tetters. Cracked. Skin symptoms are renewed at full and new moon. Brittle nails.

Sleep.—At night, unrefreshing and entirely too light. Sleeplessness before midnight. Many anxious, frightful dreams at night.

Fever.—Pulse: Full and somewhat accelerated. Chill: Predominant and mostly toward evening, even in bed and by a warm stove, as well as after eating warm soup, often with heat of face. During day, and heat at night. In evening, following the chill there is Heat which spreads from face, but sometimes only attacks the right side of the body. Evening fever with prevailing chill. Sweat: At night, especially in early morning in bed, most profuse on face, often on right side of face only, with anxiety. Entire inability to.

Allied Remedies.—BRY., Cal-c., Cham., Ign., Ip., Lach., Lyc., Nat-m., Phos., Plb., Pul., Verat-a.

AMBRA.

Mind.—Animated phantasies of which he cannot rid himself. Difficult thinking and comprehension. Restless and hasty. Long after excitement after talking. Despair and satiety of life. Embarrassed in company. Sadness. Great seriousness with aversion to talking and laughing.

Vertigo.—Intense, in open air.

Head.—Aching in temples from congestion thereto. Rush of blood to, also when listening to music. Tearing in, with

ulcers on scalp. Violent (pressing) headache on alternate days, with fear of going mad. The hair falls out and is painful to touch. Smarting soreness of scalp early on awaking, followed by numbness thereof, as well as of skin of entire body.

Eyes.—Pressure, as if they had been closed too firmly. Imflammatory redness of sclerotic.

Ears.—Tearing in. One sided deafness.

Nose.—Nose-bleed in early morning. Cramp in wings of. Stopped coryza with smarting pain inside of.

Face.—Jaundiced color. Flushes of heat in. Spasmodic trembling and twitching of muscles of, and of lips.

Teeth.—Tearing pain in hollow, < by warmth. Bleeding of, and of gums.

Mouth.—Dry and numb inside, early on awaking. Fetor from, early in morning. Excoriative, smarting pain in a nodule (ranula) under tongue. Early in morning there is much gray mucus in throat necessitating hawking, thereby causing gagging and vomiting.

Thirst.—Entirely absent.

Eructation.—Abortive. Sour. Heartburn, particularly after drinking milk.

Hypochondriæ.—Pressive pain in (r.), and in stomach. Splenic pain, as if something were torn loose there.

Abdomen.—Pressure and heaviness in. Distension of, after every meal. Cold sensation on one side of. Pain in upper and lower.

Stool.—Constipated and retarded.

Anus.—Itching and crawling in, and in rectum.

Urine.—Frequent micturition at night. Turbid, with brown sediment. Sour odor of.

Sexual Organs.—Burning, itching and smarting sensations in, with violent voluptuous feelings. Early in bed, erections with numbness in parts. Inflammation of internal sexual organs.

Menses.—Too early and too profuse, with varices.

Respiration.—Short, with tightness of chest.

Cough.—Dry, spasmodic, with eructations and hoarseness (particularly in emaciated persons). Nightly, from tickling in throat. In long paroxysms coming from deep in chest; dry in evening; expectoration of grayish-white, seldom yellow mucus, of a salty or sour taste in morning.

Trachea, etc.—Hoarseness from much thick mucus in. Itching, scratching and soreness in, and in larynx.

Chest.—Compression in, and in back. Pressure in and on, particularly in cardiac region. Palpitation with a pale face. Itching in.

Neck.—Itching in thyroid gland.

Upper Extremities.—Asleep sensation with numbness of arm on which he lies at night. Gouty tearing in joints of arms and hands. Shriveled finger tips.

Lower Extremities.—Tearing from lumbar region throughout entire right thigh, it is impossible to step, and limb seems shorter than the sound one. Nightly cramps in calves. Burning in soles.

Generalities.—The arms and limbs easily go to sleep. Tearing pains particularly in joints, often onesided. Spasms and twitchings in muscular parts. Benumbed sensation of entire surface of body, in morning. Many complaints appear during sleep and disappear after rising. Many complaints are > by slow exercise in the open air and by lying on painful parts. Particularly adapted to elderly and emaciated persons.

Skin.—Dry. Itching and burning in many localities. Burning herpes.

Sleep.—Disturbed by coldness of body and twitching of limbs at night. Full of reveries, with anxious dreams and phantasies.

Fever.—Pulse: Accelerated and ebullition ot blood. Chill: In forenoon, with weariness and sleepiness, > by eating. At night, preventing falling to sleep. Of single parts, with heat of face. Anxious, flying. Heat: Recurring every fifteen minutes, most violent toward evening. Sweat: Profuse, at night, mostly after midnight; on affected side. Profuse, especially on abdomen and thighs, during motion.

Allied Remedies.—Bell., Calc-c., Lyc., Nux-v., Puls., Staph., Sul.

AMMONIUM CARBONICUM.

Mind.—Difficult thinking. Easily makes mistakes in talking and writing. Forgetful and distracted. Sadness and weeping with fears and presentiments of impending evil. Very feverish and ill-humored during cloudy weather. Satiety of life. Disobedient.

Vertigo.—With nausea, toward evening.

Head.—Chronic headache with nausea. Feeling as if brain were loose. Beating and pressing in forehead, as if head would burst. Heaviness and fulness in forehead. Worse: Evening; after eating; after motion in open air. Better: Half-reclining position; external pressure; warmth.

Eyes.—Burning in, with photophobia. Dim vision with glimmering. Nearsighted. Cataract.

Ears.—Difficult hearing with suppuration and itching of. Hard swelling of parotid gland.

Nose.—Congestion of blood to tip, when stooping. Nosebleed. Chronic coryza, can breath through mouth only. Stopped coryza at night.

Face.—Deathly pale, bloated. Itchy eruption with swollen cervical glands. Herpes about mouth. Many freckles. Dry, cracked lips, with burning pains.

Teeth.—Jerking, tearing ache, < by biting teeth together. Sticking ache. Loose. Swollen gums, which bleed easily.

Mouth.—Swelling of inner surface of cheek. Blisters in, also on tongue. Throat, sore, as if a foreign body had lodged there.

Appetite, etc.—He cannot eat without also drinking. Great desire for sugar. Continual thirst.

Taste.—Bitter, in morning.

Eructation.—Scratchy heartburn after eating.

Nausea.—And vomiting after every meal.

Stomach.—Pressure in with nausea and sensitiveness of pit after eating. Intolerant of pressure of clothes on.

Abdomen.—Spasm in, with contractive sensation, nausea and collection of water in mouth.

Stool.—Constipated. Retarded, hard, knotty.

Anus.—Hæmorrhage from, during and independently of stool. Moist hæmorrhoids. Itching of.

Urine.—Nightly; also involuntary urination.

Sexual Organs.—Pollutions follow a forcing and drawing in testes.

Menses.—Too scant and too short, of blackish acrid blood. Too early and too profuse. Many complaints during. Burning, acrid, watery leucorrhœa.

Respiration.—Tightness of chest with palpitation, particularly during exercise and when ascending steps. Asthmatic symptems of dropsical persons.

Cough.—Dry, as from feather down in throat, with hoarseness. Night cough. With bloody expectoration after previous sweetish (blood) taste in throat, with violent respiratory symptoms.

Chest.—Congestion to. Sticking in left side of, < lying thereon. Hydrothorax. Palpitation.

Back.—Drawing through entire length of, from lumbar region to nape.

Upper Extremities.—Distended bloodvesssels and blue hands after washing with cold water or letting them hang down. Deadened sensation in arms and fingers. Pain in wrist which had been formerly sprained. Skin peels from palms.

Lower Extremities.—Bruised pain in hip joints and thighs. Twitching in knees. Cramp in soles of feet. Painful redness and swelling of great toe, in evening.

Generalities.—Wrenching, tearing in joints > by warmth of bed. Restlessness of body in evening. Inclination to stretch limbs. Aversion and unusual sensitiveness to open or cold air. Emaciation. Aversion to motion. Symptoms are intensified in evening. Right side of body is mostly affected. Worse: Washing.

Skin.—Violent itching and burning vesicles after scratching. Freckles. Ganglion. Chafed skin in children.

Sleep.—Day sleepiness. Nightly nausea and ebullitions of blood.

Fever.—Pulse: Hard, tense and rapid. Chill: Attacks of in evening, often alternating with heat, till toward midnight. In open air. Heat: Most in evening, especially on face, with cold feet. Sweat: In early morning, most on joints. Persistent, day or night sweats.

Allied Remedies.—Bro., Calc-c., Flu-ac., Hep., Phos., Sec-c.,

AMMONIUM MURIATICUM.

Mind.—Irritable and fretful in forenoon, but in better humor in afternoon. Anxiety with weeping. Low spirited from care and grief.

Vertigo.—Dizzy, disappearsing in open air.

Head.—Sense of heaviness and fullness in forehead, early in morning.

Eyes.—Burning of, in twilight, disappearing in artificial light. Burning in canthi with photophobia, early in morning, disappearing after washing. Flying spots before.

Ears.—Outward sticking in, especially in open air. Running ears with difficult hearing.

Nose.—Sensitiveness and ulcerative pain deep in nasal cavity. Fluent coryza with discharge of acrid water, stoppage of nose and loss of smell.

Face.—Burning heat of, in room. Violent tearing in zygoma. Angles of mouth ulcerated. Dry cracked lips with denuded spots thereon. Throbbing pain in swollen submaxillary glands.

Mouth.—Sticking pain in throat when swallowing. Burning vesicles on tip of tongue.

Thirst.—Much, particularly in evening.

Taste.—Bitter, in mouth early in morning.

Eructation.—Bitter. Hiccough with stitches in chest.

Vomiting.—Mucus, early in morning.

Abdomen. Pinching bellyache. Twitching about naval and in hypochondriæ.

Stool.—Constipation. Bellyache about naval before.

Urine.—Diminished discharge of. Frequent nightly urination.

Menses.—Too early and too profuse, with abdominal and lumbar pains.

Cough.—Dry, from tickling in throat, early in the morning. Chronic straining cough coming from deep within chest. When lying on back, in evening and at night.

Larynx.—Hoarseness with burning in.

Neck.—Tearing in sides of, extending into clavicle. Painful stiffness of nape.

Back.—Extraordinary lumbar pain as tho' beaten, at night. Stitches in scapulæ when breathing.

Upper Extremities.—Blisters which become scabby, on wrists. Peeling of skin between fingers. Painful fingertips (panaritia).

Lower Extremities.—Contraction of tendons of popliteal spaces and stiff knee joints. Deadness of legs. Ulcerative pains and tearing in heels. Painful tips of toes. Fetid footsweat.

Generalities.—Ulcerative pains in many parts of body. Tightening in joints, as from contraction of muscles. In the morning hours the parts are as if contracted, it disappears during rapid walking in open air. The right side is principally affected. Chest and head symptoms are < in morning, abdominal symptoms in afternoon, and pains in extremities, skin diseases and fever in evening.

Bones.—Tearing in, at night.

Skin.—Vesicular eruptions finally forming scabs. Peeling off, of skin of many parts of body.

Sleep.—Sleepless after midnight.

Fever.—Pulse: Constantly accelerated day and night. Chill: With external coldness in evening, and from uncovering at night. Coldness runs up back. Alternating with heat every half hour. Heat: With puffy red face, especially in a warm room and after physical exer-

tion. Frequent attacks of overrunning h., each time ending with sweat, which breaks out most profusely on face, palms and soles. Sweat: After previous heat, at night as well as during day. Profuse night sweat over entire body, most violent after midnight and in early morning in bed.

Allied Remedies.—Ars., nux-v., Pul., Rhus-t.

ANACARDIUM.

Mind.—Imagines himself double, or that someone lies beside him. Feels possessed of two wills, one of which hinders him from doing that to which the other impels him. His reason and will are at variance. Great weakness of comprehension and memory. Imbecility. Awkward, foolish conduct. Anxiety. Despondency and fear of approaching death. Cruelty and inhumanity. Want of moral feeling. Inclination to swear. Irascible and illnatured. Inclination to laugh about serious matters. Anthropophobia. Hysteria and hypochondriasis after excessive sexual indulgence.

Head.—Congestion to. Pressive ache like a painful inward pressure in temples with decreased vision and hearing, some hours after eating. Pressure as of a nail, mostly in temple (eyes and ears). Tearing headache. Stitches in brain. Pain in occiput from making a misstep and from noise. Worse: Mental exertion; stepping hard; after eating; in cold. Better: While eating.

Eyes.—Pressure on balls. Dim vision. Halo about light in evening.

Ears.—Painful swelling of external. Earache with tearing and sticking. Deafness.

Nose.—Absence of sense of smell. Illusions of smell: Like pigeon dung or smouldering tinder. Violent coryza with fever. Much sneezing and long-continued excitation thereto.

Face.—Pale, with hollow eyes encircled by blue rings. Herpetic skin about mouth.

Mouth.—Fetid odor from, of which he is not conscious. Difficult speech, from swelling and stiffness of tongue.

Appetite, etc.—Violent thirst with arrested breathing when drinking.

Taste.—Loss of.

Vomiting.—Of food, which >.

Stomach.—Pressure in, after eating. Weak digestion with hypochondriacal humor after eating. Shattering in pit at every step, after eating.

Abdomen.—Bursting pain in.

Flatulence.—Rumblings in abdomen with pinching and urging to stool.

Stool.—Ineffectual urging to. Passed with difficulty from inactivity of rectum, although soft.

Anus.—Painful hæmorrhoids in.

Urine.—Frequent passage of scanty, watery urine, with burning.

Sexual Organs.—Discharge of prostatic fluid during stool and after urination.

Respiration.—Tightness of chest and oppression, with internal heat and anxiety, driving him into open air. Suffocative attacks.

Cough.—Attacks of shattering cough every 3 or 4 hours, excited by crawling in trachea; dry at night, during day with a mucous expectoration, mostly of a flat, sweetish taste, often bloody, then again yellow purulent, sometimes also gray and acrid. With arrested breathing. With stitches in head and vomiting of ingesta. Continued yawning and sleepiness after.

Chest.—Pressive pain as from a plug in. Stitches extending from cardiac into lumbar region. Scratching and soreness in.

Back.—Tearing and sticking between scapulæ. Pressure as of a load upon shoulders.

Upper Extremities.—Cramp-like pain in wrist and finger joints. Numbness of fingers. Weakness of arms and knees. Clammy sweat on palms.

Lower Extremities.—Restlessness and stiffness in legs, as if knees were bandaged. Twitching and trembling about knee, with paralytic weakness. Intermittent, cramp-like pressure in thighs and calves. Cold feet.

Generalities.—Pressive pain like the inward pressure of a plug, in many parts. Trembling limbs. Sensitive to drafts and easily takes cold. Paralyses from apoplexy. Symptoms generally appear periodically. During dinner most symptoms vanish, but reappear afterward. Diminution of sight, hearing, taste and smell. Almost exclusively adapted to illnatured persons.

Skin.—Want of both sensibility and irritability of.

Fever.—Pulse: Accelerated, with throbbing in bloodvessels. Chill: And chilliness with trembling, especially in open air, disappearing in sunshine. Shuddering over back, as if cold water were poured over it, with heat of face. Internal, even in a warm room. Heat: External with internal chill. Of upper part of body, with cold feet, internal shuddering and hot breath. Daily from 4 P. M. until evening, disappearing at supper time. Sweat: In evening, on head, abdomen and back, even when sitting still. On abdomen and back at night. Sticky, on palms of hands, especially on left. Cool, with internal heat.

Allied Remedies.—Calc-c., Coff., Con., Nat-m.

ANGUSTURA.

Mind.—Extraordinary distraction. Great crowding of thought like a waking dream in afternoon. Disheartened and want of self-confidence. Over-sensitive to offenses. Extraordinary agitation and cheerfulness.

Head.—In evening (pressing) head pains with hot face. Cramp-like headache. Tensive pain in temporal muscles when opening jaws.

Eyes.—Tension and pressure in, as from too strong a light. The lids stand spasmodically wide open. Short sight.

Ears.—Cramping pain in. Diminished hearing.

Face.—Hot and bluish red. Tension in muscles of. Cramp-like pain in zygomæ and in masseter muscles. Trismus: Lockjaw with widely retracted lips, exposing teeth. For awhile after attacks, lips and cheeks remain blue. Periostitis of lower jaw.

Throat.—Cramped feeling in, compelling clearing it, but no expectoration.

Appetite, etc.—Entire loss of, for solid food; he desires only coffee. Aversion to pork. Thirsty without desire to drink. Irresistible longing for coffee.

Taste.—Bitter, in mouth after eating and smoking.

Stomach.—Cutting, smarting pain in. Cramping pain in pit.

Abdomen.—Cramping pain in. Cutting in, after drinking milk.

Stool.—Mucus. Diarrhœa with cutting in abdomen.

Sexual Organs.—Violent itching of.

Respiration.—Intermittent, spasmodic. Oppressive tightness of chest when running and ascending.

Cough.—Dry, with scratching and rattling in chest.

Trachea, etc.—Tenacious mucus in, which is not easily disloged. Hoarseness from mucus in. Faint, soft voice.

Chest.—A cutting ache in both sides of, at first only on inspiration, afterwards increased to cutting shocks which continue, even when patient holds his breath. Painful spasm in muscles of. Bruised pain in muscles of, when moving arms. Violent palpitation with anxiety.

Back.—Painful stiffness between scapulæ and in nape. Violent itching along back. Opisthotonos. Bruised pain in lumbar region, early in morning.

Upper Extremities.—Cramp-like drawing through arms into fingers.

Lower Extremities.—Cramping pain and bruised feeling in legs. When stepping, pain on inner side of ankles, necessitating limping.

Generalities.—Tonic spasm excited by touch, drinking and noise. Stiffness and stretching out of limbs. Spasmodic twitchings. Paralyses.

Bones.—Caries and very painful ulcers which affect the bones and extend into the marrow.

Sleep.—Sleepiness early in evening, followed by great vivacity until after midnight.

Fever.—Pulse: Accelerated, spasmodic, irregular and sometimes intermittent. Chill: Early in morning in bed and in forenoon, after previous thirst. Violent internal, every afternoon (3 o'clock). Repeated shivering chill over diseased parts. Shivering chill over back in forenoon (9 o'clock). Heat: In evening, most in face, after entering a room and after supper. After midnight (3 o'clock), which disturbs sleep, soon followed by shuddering. Sweat: Only in early morning, and on forehead.

Allied Remedies.—Bry., Calc-c., Lyc., Rhus-t., Verbas., Tab.

ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM

Mind.—Imbecility. Insanity. Ecstatic love and sentimental reveries in the moonlight. Apprehension and solicitude concerning his fate. Restlessness. Inclination to suicide by shooting.

Head.—Stupefying ache with nausea in throat. Congestion to. Distensive pressing ache. Bone pains in cranium, the periosteum is painful and swelled and the bone itself feels swollen. Takes cold in, from getting wet or bathing in cold water. Worse: Evening; warmth; becoming heated; after bathing; after eating; after his accustomed smoke. Better: Walking in cool, open air; at rest.

Eyes.—Inflammatory redness of, and of lids. Sticking in. Eyegum in canthi. Aversion to daylight.

Ears. Deafness as if a leaflet were lying before tympanum.

Nose.—Sore, cracked, crusty nostrils. Sensation of coldness in, on inspiration.

Face.—Sad expression. Vesicular, suppurating eruptions on, which form a yellow crust. Angles of mouth are sore and cracked. Swelled submaxillary glands.

Teeth.—Bleeding from about, and from gums. Jerking pain in hollow teeth < cold water. Gnashing.

Mouth.—Salty saliva. Salivation. Dirty, white-coated tongue. Hot breath.

Appetite, etc.—Long continued loss of. Loathes all food. Desires sour things. Intense thirst particularly at night.

Taste. Flat, disagreeably insipid. Bitterness in mouth.

Eructation.—Tasting of ingesta.

Nausea, etc.—Loathing, qualmishness and nausea after derangement of stomach. Qualmishness after drinking wine. Gagging. Tasteless vomiting. Vomits mucus and bile. Vomits, drinks only.

Stomach.—Pain as from overloading. Deranged by gluttony. Spasm in, with sensitive pit and thirst. Weak.

Abdomen.—Distended and full after eating. Violent cutting in upper. Ascites.

Flatulence.—Much, with grumbling and rattling in abdomen.

Stool.—Hard, difficult. Feces too large. Diarrhœa: Alternating with constipation (in the aged); papescent or watery, with cutting bellyache.

Anus.—Hæmorrhoids in. Continuous flow of mucus from.

Urine.—Profuse discharge, containing mucus, with burning in urethra and lumbar pains. Dark. Involuntary urination when coughing. Kidney calculi.

Sexual Organs.—Lustfulness and great sexual excitement. Uterine hemorrhage.

Respiration.—Deep, sighing. Suffocative oppression of chest.

Cough —Seeming to come from deep in abdomen, the coughs gradually grow weaker as if from increasing closure of throat by a plug. Dry in evening; in morning expectoration of a flat-tasting tenacious mucus mixed with dark blood.

Larynx.—Heat in, during exercise in open air. Very weak voice. Aphonia from becoming heated.

Neck.—Rheumatic pain in.

Chest.—Burning and sticking pain in.

Upper Extremities. Rheumatic pain in arms. Swelling, sticking and tension in deltoid. Inflammatory swelling of forearm. Slowly growing finger-nails.