Characteristics Spongia – Taraxacum

SPONGIA.

Mind.—Attacks of anxiety. Great tendency to be easily frightened. Obstinancy. Excessive mirth. Great inclination to hum and sing. Disposition to weep.

Head.—Congestion with pressure in forehead. Distensive, pressive ache as tho' it would burst. Outward pressure in (r.) frontal eminence. Throbbing and pulsation in, especially in forehead. Bent or sunken backward, with painful stiffness of nape, anxious whistling breathing and a dry barking cough (croup). Sensation as if hair stood on end. Worse: Sitting; entering a warm room after walking in open air; looking intently. Better: Lying horizontally, especially on back.

Eyes.—Pressure and sticking in. Headache and tears in e., from continued staring at a single point. The lids feel heavy and draw shut.

Ears.—Suppuration of external. Difficult hearing.

Nose.—Dry nasal catarrh.

Face.—Pale, with sunken eyes. Red, with an anxious mien. Swollen cheeks. Eruption on lips. Swelling and tension of submaxillary glands.

Mouth.—Painful vesicles on inside of cheeks and on tongue. Salivation. Brown, dry tongue.

Appetite, etc.—Insatiable hunger and thirst.

Taste.—Bitter in throat, not in mouth.

Vomiting.—After milk.

Stomach.—Intolerance of tight clothing about. Stitches in, from least pressure thereon. Feeling of laxness, and as if it stood open.

Hypochondria.—Pressure in.

Abdomen.—Drawing pains in lumbo-abdominal region, starting from small of back. Swelling of inguinal glands. Grumbling and grunting in.

Stool.—Hard, scanty, with urging in anus.

Anus.—Crawling, with discharge of ascarides.

Urine.—Involuntary discharge. Frequent urging with a scanty discharge.

Sexual Organs.—Swelling of testes and spermatic cords.

Menses.—Too early and too profuse. Palpitation before.

Respiration.—Difficult, as from a stopper or valve in larynx, without rattling. Oppressed, > bending upper part of body forward. Whistling, rattling, anxious inspiration with violent exertion of abdominal muscles. Wheezing (not rattling) inspiration. Loss of breath.

Cough.—Deep, dry, hollow, barking c., during day and night, excited by an irritation like a plug or valve high up in the larynx, in the morning only there is detached a scanty, tenacious yellow or hardened mucus, of a faintly sour taste, which can't be ejected but must be swallowed. With painful soreness and burning in chest.

Larynx, etc.—Sensitive to touch. Roughness and burning dryness with sensation of constriction in larynx and trachea. Inflammation of mucous membrane of trachea. Membraneous croup. Laryngeal and tracheal phthisis. Hoarseness. Husky, weak voice which fails when talking and singing.

Neck.—Painful stiffness of nape and neck, felt especially when turning head. Large goitre with pressure and crawling therein.

Chest.—The slightest exertion causes violent congestion to, with obstructed breathing, anxiety and qualmishness. Constriction, with violent oppression of breathing. Burning and soreness in.

Back.—Pressing pain in sacrum.

Upper Extremities.—Large blisters on forearm. Swelling and redness of single finger joints which are tense when bent. Numbness of finger tips.

Generalities.—Stiff extremities. Bruised feeling in arms and legs. Heaviness of body. Sensation of numbness of lower half of body. Great mental and physical relaxation. Many complaints, except those of respiration, are ameliorated when resting in a horizontal position.

Glands.—Swollen and indurated.

Skin.—Dry, hot. Itching sticking, when becoming warm in bed. Herpes.

Sleep.—Reveries and phantasies on falling asleep.

Fever.—Pulse: Very quick, full and hard. Strong ebullition of blood and swelling of bloodvessels. Chill: With shaking, even by a warm stove, most on back. Heat: Great, soon after the chill, with dry burning skin over whole body except thighs, which remain cold, numb and chilly. Attacks of overrunning, flying h. Anxious h., with red cheeks, weeping and inconsolable mood. Sweat: Cool on face, in evening. Over whole body, in early morning hours.

Allied Remedies.—Brom., Dros., HEP., Iod., Kali-bi., Lact., Phyt.

STANNUM.

Mind.—Extraordinary restlessness and anxiety. Despondency. Quickly passing ebullitions of anger. Irritability, silent peevishness, anthropophobia and aversion to talk. Hopelessness.

Head.—Pressive, stupefying ache, moving about in forehead. Burning in forehead with qualmishness > in open air. Throbbing in temples. Painful jerks thro' forehead and occiput, leaving a dull pressure behind, > from motion.

Eyes.—Weak, dim, sunken. Nighly purulent agglutination. Sticking and pressure in lids. Lachrymal fistula Styes.

Ears.—Ulcerated ringholes. Shrieking noise in, when blowing nose.

Nose.—Stoppage in upper nasal cavity. Unilateral stuffed coryza with inflamed nasal cavities.

Face.—Pale, sunken, with deep seated eyes. Drawing facial pain in malar bone and orbits. Swelling of upper jaw and cheek. Cramp in jaws. Painful swelling of submaxillary glands.

Mouth.—Bad odor from. Sticking, dry sensation in throat. Hawking of mucus with painful soreness in. After hawking mucus, the voice for singing is much higher. Speech difficult and weak from debility.

Appetite.—Great hunger and thirst except in evening. Loss of, in evening.

Taste.—Bitter, of all food.

Nausea, etc.—Sweet risings in throat. Bitter vomiting after eating. Violent retching followed by vomiting of indigested food. Hæmatemesis.

Stomach.—Violent pressure in, with painful soreness thereof to touch. Cramps, with bitter eructations, sensation of hunger therein and diarrhœa. Bruised pain in pit. Empty sensation in.

Abdomen.—Spasmodic colic about navel. Hysterical spasms in. Empty or full feeling in. Sensitive to touch.

Flatulence.—Flatulent distension of abdomen. Obstructed flatus.

Stool.—Frequent, ineffectual urging to. Hard, dry and knotty. Scanty, greenish. Mucus diarrhœa.

Urine.—Scanty discharge. The excitation to urinate fails, as from insensibility of bladder, only a fulness in lower abdomen indicates its necessity.

Sexual Organs.—Increased sexual desire. Violent, voluptuous irritation to discharge semen.

Menses.—Increased. Anxiety and low spirits before. Debilitating, mucous leucorrhœa.

Respiration.—Crowing, snoring. Great tightness of chest, with anxiety in evening; it necessitates loosening the clothes. Want of breath from every movement, but also when lying down. Taking a deep breath causes a transient sense of agreeable lightness.

Cough.—Tickling, deep, hollow c., returning periodically in fits of three coughs, excited by mucus in chest and stitches and dryness in trachea. Violent, dry c., in evening in bed, until midnight. During day, with copious, greenish, repulsively sweetish foul or sometimes salty or sour expectoration. Phthisis mucosa.

Larynx, etc.—Roughness and hoarseness in. Tickling and soreness in. Much mucus in trachea, which is easily expectorated. Soreness in trachea. Tracheal phthisis.

Chest.—Tickling itching in. Piercing and soreness in. Stitches in l., when breathing or lying thereon. Sense of

emptiness and weakness in. Ulcerative phthisis. Hydrothorax. Tension and painfulness throughout entire external c.

Upper Extremities.—Swelling of hands in evening. Violent burning in hands. Frost bites. Hangnails.

Lower Extremities.—Great weakness in thighs. Swelling of ankle in evening. Violent burning in feet.

Generalities.—Paralytic heaviness in extremities. Paralyses of arms and legs. Pressive drawing in limbs. Burning heat in limbs. Lassitude with trembling. Extraordinary weakness of body (and mind), with tremulousness felt more during slow motion. Greatly indisposed and affected after long continued speaking. Emaciation. Hysterical and hypochondriacal spasms, with pains in abdomen and region of diaphragm. Epileptic attacks in evening, especially in teething children. Motion > and rest < the symptoms; the debility only is felt while walking. Pains which gradually increase,then gradually decline in the same way.

Sleep.—Day sleepiness. Late falling to sleep. Nightly restlessness with very many dreams.

Fever.—Pulse small and quick. Chill: In evening, especially over back, after previous heat with sweat. Shuddering c. daily in forenoon (toward 10 o'clock). On head only. With the lightest shuddering chill the teeth chatter as from convulsions of masseter muscles. Marked numb feeling in finger tips during the shuddering chill in the morning. Heat: In afternoon (from 4 to 5 o'clock), recurring daily, with co-existent sweat. Burning h., in limbs, strongest on hands, every evening. Anxious h., in repeated attacks, as tho' sweat would break out. Anxious feeling of h., from the least motion. Predominating feeling of h., internally. Sweat: Very exhausting at night and in the morning hours, most profuse on neck. Very exhausting general s. from the least motion. Musty or mouldy smelling,

Allied Remedies.—Ars., Chin., Lach., PULS., Seneg., Sul., Valer.

STAPHYSAGRIA.

Mind.—Chaotic, incapable of any mental exertion. Weak memory. Bad effects of righteous anger and indignation (he flings away what he has in his hand). Great angriness. Fixed dissatisfaction over his own as well as the deeds of others. Ill humor over events. Tearful mourning, with grief and fear for the future. Hypochondrical indifference (of onanists). Tetchiness Thoughts full of solicitude.

Head.—Stupefying pressive ache, as tho' brain were pressed together. Pressure as of a heavy lump or ball fixed within forehead. Feeling: As tho' brain were rent asunder; as if head would burst, especially in forehead. Worse: Early, on awaking; motion; stooping. Better: Reclining head; rest; warmth; after much yawning; after breakfast.

External Head.—Painfully sensitive, with desquamation of epidermis. Moist, (seldom dry) foul, erosive, creeping, itching eruption on occiput and behind ears, scratching causes the itching to change place, increases the moisture and makes it burn. Itching dandruff. Pressive, sticking and tearing in bones and perioteum of skull, especially in occiput and behind ears, ending in swelling and suppuration, with foul day and night sweats. Hair falls out most on nape and behind ears, with a foul, moist eruption or scales on, (also after illness induced by vexation). Worse: Becoming warm in bed; warm wraps; touch; motion; evening; at night; after rising, sometimes after the siesta. Better: After breakfast; reclining it upon something; after lying down.

Eyes.—Biting and burning in inner canthi. Dryness of balls and lids. Inflammation of edges of lids, with nightly agglutination. Nodes in edges of lids. Dim vision. Lachrymation. Halo about candlelight at night.

Nose.—Nasal and aural polypi. Ulcerated nostrils. Coryza with ulcerated nostrils. Stoppage of upper nares. Acrid coryza, with obstruction of choanæ. Sneezing.

Face.—Sickly, sunken or debauched countenance, with hollow eyes encircled by blue rings. When getting angry it turns brown and blue. Inflammation of bones of. Scurfy, burning, painful lips. Easy dislocation of maxillary joint. Painful submaxillary glands with or without swelling.

Teeth.—Exfoliate and turn black. Very sensitive to touch and cold drinks, not felt when biting them together violently. Painful, whitish swelling and ulceration of gums. Nodosities and excrescences on gums. Bleeding gums.

Mouth.—Stomatitis. Dryness and scraping in throat and fauces, with painful soreness when talking and swallowing. Painful drawing extending from hyoid bone downward into throat. Salivation. Feeble voice on account of weakness of vocal organs and after anger. Nasal speech from obstruction of choanæ. Continued swallowing while talking. Offensive breath.

Appetite, etc.—Excessive. Ravenous hunger with waterbrash, when stomach is full. Desire for thin, liquid food only; for brandy and tobacco.

Taste.—Flat, in mouth. Bitter, of all food.

Eructation.—Bitter, salty e., after eating meat. Bitter, after sour food. Hiccoughy, during which bitter water comes up into mouth. Waterbrash. Retching.

Hypochondriæ.—Anxious, suffocative pressure and tension transversely across h., early in morning while fasting.

Abdomen.—Spasmodic cutting in a., every time he eats or drinks. Weak feeling in, as tho' it would fall away. Contraction of. Pot belly, especially in children. Colic, with urging to urinate. Painfully swollen inguinal glands. Inguinal hernia descends when coughing. Flatulent symptoms.

Flatus.—With odor of rotten eggs.

Stool.—Constipation, with urging to s. Slow altho' soft. Dysenteric. Urging sometimes with hard, sometimes with soft stool. Evacuations with much flatus.

Urine.—Urging to urinate, with painful discharge of scanty, dark red urine, passed drop by drop. Urging to urinate, with discharge of much clear, watery urine. Involuntary urination when coughing.

Sexual Organs.—Inflammation of testes or ovaries. Painful sensitiveness of female sexual organs, especially when sitting. Excited sexual desire. Frequent pollutions. Bad effects of onanism.

Cough.—Nightly, with expectoration of yellow, pus-like, flat-tasting mucus. Dry, hollow, spasmodic c.,from tickling crawling in larynx and trachea. Dry by day.

Larynx, etc.—Adherent mucus in, and in trachea. Rawness in, from much talking. Sensation of pressure and constriction in throat-pit after anger, < swallowing. Tearing pain in, and in trachea. Soreness in trachea. Weak voice.

Neck.—Stiff nape. Painfully swollen glands of throat and neck.

Chest.—Constricting dyspnœa. Scratching, soreness or ulcerative pain, < coughing. Great restlessness in. Spasm of diaphragm after anger. Tremulous palpitation from least motion or music.

Back.—Pain in small of, as tho' broken, during rest and when rising from sitting.

Upper Extremities.—Painfully swollen axillary glands. Paralytic, pressive drawing in arms. Scabby herpes on elbows. Insensible finger-tips.

Generalities.—Painfulness of muscles to touch, and of joints to motion. Unilateral paralysis from anger. Early in morning, great weariness and stiffness of all joints, mostly in shoulder, lumbar region and hips. Continual inclination to lie down. Heaviness of limbs and dulness after the noon-day nap. Nightly twitchings. Faintness. Effects of onanism or the abuse of Mercury.

Glands.—Painfully (or painlessly) swollen.

Bones.—Swelling and suppuration of, and of periosteum.

Skin.—Itching herpes which burns, after scratching, in evening. Dry, crusty

herpes upon joints. Chronic miliary eruptions, with nightly twitchings. Unhealthy, diseased s. Incised wounds. Gouty nodes on joints; on fingers.

Sleep.—Violent yawning and stretching, with tears in eyes. Extraordinary day sleepiness. Sleepless before midnight. Anxious dreams full of peril, after midnight.

Fever.—Pulse: Very quick, but small and often tremulous. Chill: And coldness predominate. And coldness in evening, often without subsequent heat. Violent, in evening, with shuddering and shaking and heat of face. Shuddering in afternoon (3 o'clock), > motion in open air. From back up over head, even when near a warm stove. Running down back. Constant chilliness or (in alternate action) sweat, day and night. Heat: External, with thirst after midnight, then chill toward morning. Nightly, burning h., especially on hands and feet, with inclination to uncover. With violent thirst and profuse sweat. Sweat: Profuse; also great inclination thereto. Inability to s., with headache and a pale face. Nightsweat smelling like rotten eggs. Cold, on forehead and feet. Great inclination to s., during day, even when sitting. Intermittent fever consisting almost solely of coldness. Violent hunger before and after paroxysm.

Allied Remedies.—Ars., Bism., COLOC., Kre., Merc., Merc-c., Phos-ac., Ran-b., Sil., Sul., Thuj.

STRAMONIUM.

Mind.—Extremely variable phenomena. Changing deliria of various sorts, frightful, loquacious, lewd, ridiculous, with pride, etc. Funny pranks alternating with sad demeanor. Loud laughing alternating with groaning and lamenting. Drollery alternating with earnestness. Premonitions of death alternating with attacks of rage. Ungovernable rage with great violence, howling, shrieking and striking about. Violent raving mania with frightful phantasies, visions, trembling and clonic spasms. Mental disturbances of drunkards. Extraordinary anxiety. Low-spirited, with weeping and fear of death. Melancholy. Inconsolate over trifles. Incessant idle talking. Constant restlessness. Want of memory. Insensible to mental impressions. Desire for light, company and sunshine. Illusions of fancy. Affectation.

Sensorium.—Reeling, stupefying vertigo, with vanishing of sight and hearing, and headache. Light feeling in head. Fainting, with a dry throat, and a pale, followed by a red-face.

Head.—Hot, with a glowing red face, cold hands and feet, convulsive twitching of body from every touch, and aversion to uncover. Extraordinary congestion to. Headache, with vanishing of sight and hearing. Heat and throbbing in vertex, with fainting attacks. Convulsive motions, frequently raises it from pillow, or moves it to and fro. Meningitis. Hydrocephalus. Worse: Touch. Better: Lying quietly.

Eyes.—Red, inflamed. Staring, sparkling. Distortion of; of lids. Inflammation of edges of lids. Dilated, insensible pupils. Short sight. Illusions of sight and hearing. Surrounding objects appear blue.

Face.—Alternately pale and deep red. Red, swollen, turgid. Stupid, disordered countenance. Anxiety and fear is expressed in countenance and actions. Deep folds and wrinkles on. Wasted countenance. Distortion of mouth. A yellow stripe on red part of lip.

Teeth.—Inclination to gnash.

Mouth.—Dry. Bloody foam at. Difficult swallowing from spasmodic constriction and dryness of throat. Swelling and paralysis of tongue. Stuttering with contortion of face. Complete aphonia.

Appetite, etc.—Violent thirst. Fear or aversion to water and all fluids.

Taste.—Bitter, in mouth. Tastelessness of food; it has no taste at all.

Hiccough.—Spasmodic.

Vomiting.—Of sour mucus. Of green bile.

Stomach.—Anxiety in pit with oppressed breathing.

Abdomen.—Hard, tensely distended. Painful to motion and touch. Hysterical spasms of. Bellyache, as tho' navel would be torn out, and diarrhœa.

Stool.—Retained. Cadaverous; stinking. Discharge of blood from anus.

Urine.—Suppressed. Involuntary discharge

Menses.—Increased, of coagulated, black blood. Rank stench of body during. Uterine hæmorrhage.

Cough.—Periodically recurring attacks of painless, barking, spasmodic dry cough, in a shrill screeching tone; excited by constriction of larynx and chest.

Respiration.—Difficult, oppressed. Frequent sighing.

Larynx.—Constriction of, and of chest muscles. Shrill screeching voice.

Chest.—Spasm of muscles. Too profuse secretion of milk in nursing women.

Back.—Bent backward.

Lower Extremities.—He falls over his own feet.

Generalities.—Trembling of limbs (also in drunkards). Increased and easier mobility of voluntary muscles. Twitchings in limbs. Crawling in limbs. Spasmodic attacks. Convulsions. Chorea. Eclampsia. The convulsions are excited by the least touch, as well as by glistening objects and light. Consciousness, with stiffness and immobility of body or with clonic spasms. The body is bent backward and the countenance distorted. Insensitive. Painlessness with most symptoms.

Skin.—Effects of suppressed eruptions.

Sleep.—Frightful phantasies during. Stupefying somnolency with snoring.

Fever.—Pulse: Extremely irregular; mostly full, hard and accelerated, then again small and quick; sometimes slow and scarcely perceptible; also intermittent and trembling. Chill: And universal coldness, often very long continued, with a red face and twitching. Extraordinarily sensitive to uncovering. Running down back. Universal coldness in afternoon, after previous heat of head and face, followed by general heat. Inflammatory fevers with deliria. Heat: Of whole body with vivid redness of face and mostly with concomitant sweat. Hot, red face with cold hands and feet. Anxious h., with vomiting. Sweat: Profuse, over entire body, even with the heat, with great thirst. Oily, offensive. General, cold s. Copious, at night.

Allied Remedies.—Ap., Bell., Cham., Cic., Gels., Hell., HYOS., Ign., Nux-v., Op., Plb., Verat-a.

STRONTIUM.

Mind.—Uneasiness and anxiety. Peevish and inclined to anger and vehemence.

Head.—Tensive pain externally as well as internally, as if it were distended and the scalp too small, it extends into the upper jaw increasing gradually and decreasing in the same way. Sticking headache. Sense of heat in and in the red face, with anxiety and sleepiness. Worse: Evening; lying with head low; in cold. Better: In warmth, especially of sun.

Eyes.—Pressive pain on upper surface of eyeball. Burning in. Pressive pain, after rubbing them, which causes one to see blue or red rings. Green spots before, when in the dark. Weak.

Nose.—Twitching and quivering of. Hardened, bloody nasal mucus.

Face.—Red with burning heat of. Violent boring and tearing pain in.

Teeth.—Jerking ache. Violent tearing, preceded by increased saliva. Toothache, like a screwing together sensation.

Mouth.—Numb sensation in. Inflammation of fauces and throat. Heat coming from mouth and nose, with thirst.

Appetite, etc.—Hunger after dinner. Great thirst, especially for beer.

Taste.—Like earth in mouth.

Qualmishness.—With burning heat of face.

Stomach.—Pressure in, which disappears after eating.

Abdomen.—Sensation of fullness. Cutting in, with diarrhœa and chill. Pains in umbilical region.

Stool.—Retarded, hard and lumpy, expelled with effort and great pain in anus. Burning in anus after s. Diarrhœa of yellow water.

Urine.—Diminished discharge of. Pale, smelling strongly of ammonia.

Menses.—Delayed; at first like meat juice, then passed in clots.

Respiration.—Tightness of chest with burning heat of face when walking.

Cough.—Violent, dry c., from irritation in trachea at night.

Chest.—Pressive pain in. Drawing pain in muscles of right side of. Palpitation.

Back.—Drawing pain in, and in loins, in evening. Bruised pain in, and in lumbar region, < stooping and touch.

Generalities.—Tearing pains in joints, especially in evening and at night in bed. Weak, tremulous sensation in body, early in morning and in evening. Impaired use of limbs as from one-sided paralysis (r.), in evening. Great emaciation. Many pains are like fleeting phantoms, so that one can scarcely designate their locality, yet they appear to be situated mostly in the cylindrical bones and marrow. The symptoms increase gradually and decrease just as slowly. The right side is most violently affected. He is better in open air, especially in warm sunlight and from warmth in general. His physical condition is worse in the evening.

Skin.—Itching, < scratching. Tension of; in many parts of body, in evening.

Sleep.—Starting up and jerking of body when falling to s. Frequent awaking at night, especially from coughing.

Fever.—Pulse full and hard, with strong throbbing in bloodvessels. Chill: In forenoon, running from lumbar region down back part of thighs. Shuddering over head and scapulæ. Heat: Dry, at night with thirst. Which streams from nose and mouth at same time. Sweat: In morning hours. At night, mostly on affected parts, with increased pains from uncovering.

Allied Remedies.—Phos., Plat., Sul.

SULPHUR.

Mind.—Mental preoccupation with difficult thinking. Inclined to philosophical, religious and political speculations. Weak memory. Great angriness and irritability in full blooded persons. Depression and despondency. Restlessness and haste. Anxiousness in evening. Frightened easily. Aversion to being washed, in children. Melancholy with solicitude for the salvation of his own soul but indifference to the fate of others. Weeping.

Vertigo.—Especially when sitting, with vanishing of sight and nosebleed.

Head.—Congestion from chest to h., with burning heat and gurgling, pulsating pain in brain, throbbings in neck and cardiic region, diminished hearing and flushes of heat in face. Hollow feeling in occiput. Buzzing and roaring feeling in. Stitches and bruised sensation. Bursting pain. Forehead: Outward sticking and pressure in; tearing and heat in > moving head; heaviness and fulness < raising or moving head; tension in and in eyes from every mental exertion or moving eyes. The head is stooped forward when walking. Worse: Open air; during stool; talking; early on awaking and in evening; stooping; after eating. Better: In warm room; at rest; external pressure; sitting; lying with head high.

External Head.—Bone pains like a band contracting about h., and as tho' flesh were loose thereon, ending in inflammation, swelling and caries. Open fontanelles. Agreeable crawling, itching (more on occiput and behind ears), burning, changing place or feeling > from scratching, but bleeding easily, then foul eruptions or ulcers which burn or smart as if raw, soon follow. Scalp or vertex sensitive to touch. External coldness. Hair dry; falls out, in child bed. Worse: Cold, wet weather; during rest; warmth of bed. Better: Motion; cool air.

Eyes.—Sunken, encircled by blue rings. Painful inflammation, from the recent presence of a foreign body. Stitches, especially in sunshine or artificial light.

Profuse lachrymation in open air, with disagreeable dryness thereof in a room. Vision lost, as tho' they had been obliterated. Like gauze before. Obscuration of cornea. Vesicles on cornea. Far-sighted. Photophobia with sticking, worst during sultry weather. Frequent inflammation of lids with burning and profuse secretion of mucus. Ulcerated lids. The lids are relaxed and hang down.

Ears.—Purulent discharge from. Drawing and sticking in. Humming and roaring in. Oversensitive hearing.

Nose.—Swelling and inflammation of. Herpes transversely across. Epistaxis. Odor like an old catarrh in. Dry; stopped nasal secretions. Burning fluent coryza with discharge of burning water in open air, but dry in house.

Face.—Pale, sickly color. Burning, seeming to rise from chest. Heat and spotted redness of. Erysipelas. Humid herpes. Milk crust. Swollen upper lip. Cancer of lip. Swollen of submaxillary glands.

Teeth.—Ache every evening. Sensitive tips Swelling of gums with throbbing pains. Dental fistula.

Mouth.—Stomatitis. Aphthæ of children. Chronic sensation of a plug or lump in throat. Dryness of throat. Frothy mucus on tongue. Offensive breath.

Appetite, etc.—Too great. But knows not for what. Constant thirst. Drinks much, eats little.

Taste.—Offensive, sweetish or sour, in mouth.

Eructations.—Offensive smelling, at night during sleep. Sour. Loud, whenever he presses on abdomen. Gulping up of ingesta. Heartburn.

Nausea, etc.—Qualmishness after eating. Tenderness of epigastrium after eating. Retching. Vomiting: First of water, then of solid food; of blood; sour or bitter, with cold sweat upon face.

Stomach.—Burning in. Contractive spams of, after eating. Burrowing in pit. Sensitive pit. Pressure and stitches in.

Hypochondriæ.—Stitches in hepatic region, both hypochondria and spleen.

Abdomen.—Stitches in (left) side of, when walking. Bellyache after drinking. Like a hard lump in. Hemorrhoidal colic. Ascites. Labor-like pains across the pubes. Incarcerated hernia. Loud rumbling and grumbling in. Obstructed flatus with pressure in (left) side of.

Stool.—Frequent, inffectual urging. Hard, knotty. Chronic constipation. Soft, blood-streaked s. Dysenteric, with violent tenesmus. Involuntary.

Anus and Rectum.—Prolapsus recti. Swollen anal hemorrhoids. Itching, sticking and burning in anus.

Urine.—Frequent, nightly urination, with discharge of much urine in a powerful stream. Nocturnal enuresis. Involuntary.

Sexual Organs.—Weak sexual power. Swelling of testicles. Hydrocele. Moisture on scrotum. Pressure on genitals. Swelling and painfulness of labia and vagina when sitting.

Menses.—Too early and too profuse. Suppressed, with congestion of blood to other parts. Headache before. Mucus or acrid milky leucorrhœa.

Respiration.—Difficult inspiration from a painless tightness of chest. Nightly suffocative attacks. Tightness of chest with visible palpitation and snoring-like sensation therein. Oppressed when bringing the arms together in front of body.

Cough.—Dry, with spasm of chest and retching, during day and night. Nightly, with tendency to diarrhœa. From crawling in larynx. Always in two quickly succeeding paroxysms of rapid coughing fits, excited by a tickling as of feather down in larynx. In evening and at night without, in morning and during day with expectoration of dark blood or yellow, greenish, purulent, often cold or milky-white watery mucus, ordinarily of a sourish or flat, foul or salty taste or like an old foul catarrh.

Trachea.—A rough nasal sound like snoring, in. Deep, rough voice.

Chest.—Pressure, tension, stitches, cutting, constriction, and a kind of bursting pain in. Fullness in. Congestion to. Spasm of. Roughness and soreness in. Oppression, as of a load on, after some foods. Feeling as if lungs touched back. Pains in entire c. Suppuration of lungs. Pulmonary phthisis. Violent, visible palpitation. Swelling and nodes in mammæ. Excoriated nipples. Cancer of mammæ.

Back.—Drawing in. Curvature of spine. Pain in lumbar region when walking or rising from sitting. Stitching pain and tension in sacrum. Stitches in scapulæ.

Upper Extremities.—Drawing in joints of arms, hands and fingers. Cracks on hands, especially between fingers and on palms. Erysipelatous swelling of fingers. Hangnails. Cold trembling hands.

Lower Extremities.—Heavy legs. Erysipelas on lower legs. Stiff ankles. Bruised or dislocative pain in shoulder (1). Feet cold or covered with cold sweat.

Generalities.—Great debility from speaking. General emaciation. Sensitive to open air. Restless limbs. Sticking pains in joints. Tearing in limbs with yawning and anxious sweat. Gouty arthritis with heat and swelling. Flying pains in extremities which often suddenly disappear for a time. Paralyses of limbs. Epileptiform twitchings, with an aura, as of a mouse running up arm or back. Symptoms appear mostly during rest and disappear during motion. Standing causes the greatest aggravation. Changes of weather, and especially wet weather, intensify the symptoms. Cold intensifies and warmth ameliorates the pains. Useful as an intercurrent in cases where the carefully selected remedy fails to act because some foreign controlling influence (Psora) requires to be subdued in order to allow the previous remedy a free scope to develop its power.

Glands.—Inflamed, swollen, indurated and suppurating. Swollen cervical glands.

Bones.—Pain in, as tho' flesh were loose thereon. Inflammation and swelling of. Caries. Curvature and rhachitis.

Skin.—Erysipelatous inflammations with pale, hot swelling. Nettlerash. Black pores. Bluish spots like ecchymoses. Itching and burning herpes. Scaly herpes. Liver spots. Panaritia. Boils (especially on buttocks). Spongy proud flesh in ulcers. Dropsy. Cracked. Chafing of children. Unbearable itching, especially from warmth. Itch which itches intensely in evening and from warmth (often recurs in springtime). Eruptions: Receding; tendency to.

Sleep.—Great day sleepiness, especially in afternoon and after sunset, with sleeplessness at night. Late falling to. Long but unrefreshing s., in morning. Nightly jerking and twitching in body during. Nightmare.

Fever.—Pulse: Full, hard and accelerated, sometimes intermittent. Violent ebullitions of blood throughout entire body. Chill: And chilliness, principally internal and without thirst, mostly evenings, but also at other times of day. External, with concomitant internal heat and redness of face. Severe, at night in bed. In forenoon; in afternoon heat with cold feet. With thirst, after previous heat. Spreading from toes. Running up back. Heat: Afternoons and evenings, with dry skin and great thirst. Frequent attacks of flying h. Great, at night, without thirst, often preceding chill with thirst. Sweat: Nights and mornings. Copious sour smelling s., the whole night. In evening, most on hands. Copious, from least movement. Anxious, debilitating, of an empyreumatic, sour, seldom offensive, sometimes also cold. Nightsweat, only on nape and occiput.

Allied Remedies.—Aco., Ag-c., Alo., Ambr., ANT-C., Ap., ARS., Bell., Bor., CALC-C., Carb-v., CAUST., Cham., Chel., Chin., Coff., Dulc., Ferr., Graph., Hep., Iod., Kre., MERC., NAT-S., Nit-ac., Nux-v., Petr., Pod., PSOR., PULS., Ran-b., Rhus-t., Sars., Selen., SEP., Sil., Stann., Staph., Stront., Thuj., Valer.

SULPHURICUM ACIDUM.

Mind.—Peevishness. Seriousness alternating with too great hilarity. Great tearfulness. Restlessness and impatience. Great irritability.

Head.—Sensation as of smoke in one side. Concussion, as if brain were loose. Painful jerks and thrusts in forehead and temples. Headache, as if a plug were rapidly thrust by increasingly severe blows into h. Dull sticking, or pressive head pains, increasing gradually, then suddenly disappearing. Worse: Forenoon and evening; walking; in open air; standing; sitting. Better: Sitting quietly in a warm room.

External Head.—Hair turns gray early and falls out, with an eruption and erosive sore pain on scalp, which changes place when scratched.

Eyes.—Burning pressure in. Tears in, when reading. Difficult opening of lids. Short sight.

Ears.—Diminished hearing, as though a leaf lay before. Roaring, in evening.

Nose.—Dark nosebleed in evening. Stuffed coryza, with loss of taste and smell.

Face.—Pale. Swollen sensation in, accompanied by a feeling as tho' white of egg had dried thereon. Peeling lips. Pain extending from lower jaw into tongue, as tho' glands were swollen. Swelled submaxillary glands.

Teeth.—Dull. Tearing ache, worst in evening after lying down, intensified by cold and ameliorated by warmth.

Mouth.—Sense of dryness in. Aphthæ, in children. Roughness in throat. Profuse salivation. Burning in œsophagus.

Appetite, etc.—Desire for fresh fruit, especially plums.

Eructation.—Sour or bitter. Violent heartburn. Sweetish gulping up (after every cough). Waterbrash.

Nausea.—In stomach, with the chill. Vomiting, first of water then ingesta.

Stomach.—Grasping in, every evening, as after taking cold. Sensitiveness of pit. Pressure in pit. Unless mixed with a little spirits every drink chills stomach.

Hypochondriæ.—Stitches: In hepatic region; in spleen.

Abdomen.—Sense of warmth in umbilical region. Nightly cutting in. Labor-like pains extending into hips and small of back. Flatulent colic with a feeling as tho' a hernia would appear. Violent protrusion of an inguinal hernia.

Stool.—Ineffectual urging to. Delayed, compact, hard, nodular and black. Hacked (in children). Green, curdled diarrhœa, smelling like rotten eggs. Very foul smelling.

Urine.—Diminished discharge of brown urine, which, upon standing, becomes turbid like loam water.

Menses.—Too early and too profuse. Acrid, burning leucorrhœa.

Cough.—Asthmatic, excited by an irritation in the chest; dry in evening, in morning, with expectoration of dark blood or a thin, yellowish, sometimes blood streaked mucus, generally sour, but often salty or sweet. Dry, early in morning after rising. Chronic hæmoptysis. Much worse in open air. Always followed by eructations.

Larynx.—Roughness in. Hoarseness.

Chest.—Stitches. Tight. Extraordinary sense of weakness in. Stitches in heart. Palpitation with or without anxiety.

Back.—Stiff, early in morning when rising.

Generalities.—Drawing and tearing thro' entire body, even in face. Stitches in joints. Pain, as of an instrument pressing against part, gradually increasing then suddenly ceasing. Effects of pressure, blows or contusions of dull instruments. Weakness of entire body with, a feeling as tho' he were trembling. He is not so well in open air. The left side is principally affected. Most symptoms appear or are aggravated in the afternoon or toward evening. Very suitable for females, especially in the climacteric. Aggravation of most symp-

toms from the odor (not use) of coffee, and pains which suddenly vanish, furnish indications which hardly ever deceive.

Glands.—Painfully sensitive.

Skin.—Bluish spots, like extravasations of blood after contusions. Easy excoriation from walking or riding. Red, itching spots upon shin bone. Frost bites. Eating pain in ulcers.

Sleep.—He falls to sleep late and awakens early. Sleeplessness, as from activity.

Fever.—Pulse: Small and weak, but accelerated. Chill: During day, mostly when in a room, > motion in open air. Frequent shudderings run down over body. Heat: In evening, also after lying down in bed. Frequent flashes of h., in evening, especially after motion. Attacks of over-running h., with concomitant sweat (during climacteric period). Sweat: Most profuse on upper part of body. Profuse, in early morning. From every exertion, continuing long after sitting down. Sour. Cold, immediately after eating warm food.

Allied Remedies.—Ars., (CAUST.), Chin., Dig., Fer., Flu-ac., Ip., Merc-c., Plb., PULS.

TABACUM.

Mind.—Despondency. Apprehension. Cowardice and terror of death. Morose and fretful. Full of projects, but mind is confused. Loss of memory, hunts his words. Conscious, but unable to move. Profound stupor. Worse: When alone. Better: Bathing head in cold water; weeping; vomiting.

Vertigo.—Excessive, even to unconsciousness; as if drunk; felt in occiput. Sudden faintness on rising, even hemiplegia. Worse: Opening eyes.

Head.—Confused and heavy. Violent ache, like something shaking within. Aching, with vomiting when urinating. Compression, especially in occiput, or as of a band around. Pain, as if struck with a hammer. Rush of blood to, with momentary unconsciousness. Hair falls out. Better: In open air.

Eyes.—Sunken and encircled by blue rings. Turned up. Divergent squint. Coldness, with a kind of burning in. Boring. Pupils irregular. Transient blindness. Vision > in twilight.

Ears.—Red and burning. Violent earache, with giddiness and overpowering sleepiness. Gnawing in. Sensitive hearing.

Nose.—Fluent coryza, with keen smell. Incessant sneezing.

Face.—Drawn; pinched; sunken. Deathly pale, collapsed and covered with cold sweat. Livid; pale gray. Expression of stupefaction. Transient feeling, as if parts were dead. Violent shooting in bones of. Lips cracked, burning; upper feels elongated; retracted over teeth.

Mouth.—Gums swell and bleed. Intolerably violent, throbbing toothache. Tongue numb; feels swelled. And throat full of white tenacious mucus. Dry. Salivation. Throat: Scraping and crawling in. Œdema of uvula. Feeling of a plug in; as if clutched. Difficult swallowing.

Appetite, etc.—Incessant, ravenous hunger, is nauseated if she don't eat. Can eat immediately after vomiting. Loathes water. Craves stimulants, narcotics, etc. Great thirst, especially at night, but drinks only a little at a time.

Taste.—Of rancid oil; of burnt milk.

Eructation.—Regurgitation and heartburn.

Nausea.—Paroxysmal, as if seasick, with vertigo and cold sweat; faint-like; incessant, with violent vomiting, < least motion. Retching. Worse: Motion; hawking. Better: In open air.

Stomach.—Faint sinking, or weak, relaxed feeling in. Shocks in pit, as often as he falls into a slumber. Sensation: As if it would turn over; of writhing; of coldness in, and along spine; of clawing; as if the bolus were forced thro' too small an opening (Op.). Gastralgia. Hypochondriacal dyspepsia.

Hypochondria.—Needle-like stitches in liver, preventing stretching, better stooping. Pressure, as of a heavy, round body beneath short ribs.

Abdomen.—Cramp-like retraction of navel. Intestines contracted. Painfully sensi-

tive. Violent convulsions, head retracted and contraction of abdominal muscles; excited by pressure on abdomen. Patient desires to uncover abdomen.

Stool.—Urgent, painless, profuse and watery; cholera-like; acrid smelling. Involuntary stool and urine. Constipation alternating with diarrhœa.

Anus.—Straining and violent burning in, during soft stool.

Urinary Organs.—Urine suppressed. Itching in urethra.

Sexual Organs.—Flabby. Nocturnal emissions. Loss of vitality. Discharge like meat water from vagina.

Respiration.—Difficult; suffocative; jerking; stertorous.

Cough.—With burning in larynx; with hiccough and suffocation; with dyspnœa. Better: Eating.

Neck.—Stiff. Neuralgia, with tightness of throat. Heaviness and pain in nape.

Chest.—Sudden, violent constriction, as if squeezed by a vise. Pain, as of a knife sticking in sternum. Heaviness on sternum. Violent, sore pain in mammæ, and a feeling as if nipple were bitten off. Heart: Darting pain from heart to vertex. Feeling as if a knot were twisted around h. Soreness about. Trembling. Palpitation: With pain in or between shoulders; with throbbing in head. Pains extend from heart to arms, with a sense of suffocation. Angina pectoris. Worse: Lying on left side.

Back.—Tender along spine. Heat or coldness along. As of some one blowing on. Pulsation beneath right shoulder. Backache, < lying, > walking.

Extremities.—Outstretched, relaxed and powerless, with trembling and convulsive twitchings. Stiff.

Upper Extremities.—Aching in arms. Burning and fuzziness of finger tips; swollen finger tips. Fingers feel longer and calves feel as if dropping away. Coldness of one hand and heat of other.

Lower Extremities.—Gait slow, shuffling, tottering like an old man. Burning and feeling of pins in knee, < touch. Legs icy cold below knees (Carb-v.).

Generalities.—Profound weakness, with relaxation of the voluntary, but spasm of the involuntary muscles; especially exciting the muscular activity of the alimentary canal, hence causing violent colics, vomitings and purgings. General or localized convulsions, tremblings or twitchings. Jerky movements. Numbness. Constrictive sensations about cavities, heart, chest, etc. Neuralgia, < during low barometer and wind, > hot applications. Body feels bruised. Burning pains and a sense of heat internally predominate, altho' patient may be cold objectively. Great emaciation. Extreme restlessness. Worse: Extremes of heat and cold; stormy weather; walking or riding in a carriage or railway train, the jar aggravates. Better: Open air; vomiting; sweating.

Skin.—Slight wounds inflame intensely, burn and are long in healing. Itching blisters. Ecchymoses. Trembling, as if being torn. Itching like flea bites.

Sleep.—Stupefying, with profuse sweat.

Fever.—Pulse: Weak and small. Chill: With cold sweat and thirst. Cold skin. Coldness between shoulders. Heat: Of one cheek and paleness of the other. External, with internal shivering. With sweat. Sweat: Cold, profuse, clammy. Everywhere except on forehead.

Antidotes.—Acids. Gels.

Allied Remedies.—Aco., Agar., Ant-t., Ars., Coccl., Con., Gels., Hydrocy-ac., Ip., Jabor., Lobel., Phos., Sec-c., Verat-a.

TARAXACUM.

Mind.—Irresolution. Despondency and discontent. Averse to work. Loquacity, with inclination to joke and laugh.

Vertigo.—Reeling on walking in open air.

Head.—Pressive pains. Sensation of constriction or distension of brain. Tearing in occiput. Only when walking or standing is he sensible of headache.