Characteristics Antimonium Tartaricum – Baryta Carbonica

Lower Extremities.—Rheumatic pain in legs. White swelling (hydrarthrosis) of knee. Soles sensitive when stepping. Large callous corns on ball of foot. Inflammatory redness of heel.

Generalities.—Excessive corpulency (or emaciation). Dropsical swelling of entire body. Shattering of whole body. When they recur, complaints alternate from side to side of body (Lac-c.). Gastric symptoms return most violently in afternoon, the others are < from motion and warmth. Effects of wine, especially if sour.

Skin.—Fatty itch. Papular and vesicular eruption like insect stings. Nettlerash. Chicken-pox. Arthritic nodes. White swelling. Fistulous ulcers. Liver spots and freckles.

Sleep.—Great day sleepiness. Somnolency particularly in forenoon.

Fever.—Pulse: Exceedingly irregular, now accelerated, now slow, alternating every few beats. Chill: Predominates by day, even in a warm room. Toward noon violent shaking chill with thirst (for beer). Exquisitely cold sensation in nose during inspiration. Heat: Predominating at night, but with cold feet until midnight. Great, from slightest motion, especially in sunshine. Sweat: In morning when awaking, wrinkles the finger-tips. Returning at the same hour, usually on alternate mornings. Intermittent fever with loathing, qualmishness, vomiting, bitter taste in mouth and diminished (or excessive) thirst.

Allied Remedies.—Ars., Bism., Bro., HEP., Ip., MERC., Pul., Sep., SUL.

ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM.

Mind.—Stupefying confusion of head with sleepiness. Restlessness and solicitude concerning the future. Despair and hopelessness, with somnolence. Weeping and crying. Cheerful by day, but fearful and anxious in evening.

Sensorium.—Stupefaction. Faintings preceded by coldness in the epigastrium and followed by sleep.

Head.—Pressive ache in forehead, with inclination to close eyes. Tensive ache in forehead and one side, as if brain were rolled up into a ball. Throbbing in right side of forehead. Sticking headache. Heat and sweat of. Long-continued trembling of (and hands), especially when coughing. Worse: Evening; night; at rest; sitting bent; warmth, getting warm in bed; lying; after eating. Better: Rising up, sitting upright; in the cold; lying with head high; motion; washing head.

Eyes.—Inclination to close, as if weary and sleepy. Are drawn shut. Pressure on. Glimmering before, with dim vision. Chronic optic-nerve paralysis.

Nose.—Fluent coryza, with loss of taste and smell, chilliness and somnolency.

Face.—Pale, sunken. Twitching of muscles. Dry, cracked lips.

Teeth.—Chattering of.

Throat.—Pains in pit of.

Appetite, etc.—Great, for fruit and sour things. Loathes milk. Thirstlessness. Desires cold drinks.

Taste.—Salty in mouth. Food is tasteless.

Eructation.—Empty. Nightly, as of rotten eggs.

Nausea, etc.—Constant, anxious qualmishness, and inclination to vomit. Violent retching, with sweat on forehead. Vomiting of food, with great exertion, followed by exhaustion, chill and sleepiness (Æth.); of mucus, with mucus diarrhœa.

Stomach.—Gastric pains, as from overloading it. Pressure in, and in pit, with great sensitiveness thereof. Throbbing in pit.

Abdomen.—Throbbing and pulsation in. Bellyache, with intense mental and physical restlessness. Pressure, as of stones lying in, when sitting bent forward.

Flatulence.—Cutting, flatulent colic, worse sitting bent forward.

Stool.—Papescent, mucus or bloody diarrhœic. Watery diarrhœa follows bellyache. Diarrhœa with restlessness.

Perineum.—Violent tension in.

Urine.—Dark, brown, red. Violent, painful urging to urinate, with scanty (often at end bloody) discharge Burning in urethra after micturition.

Respiration.—Difficult, necessitating an upright position. Short, from retained expectoration. Paralysis of lungs. Suffocative attacks, with sense of warmth about heart.

Cough.—Short coughs following each other in quick succession, excited by tickling and creeping in throat and larynx; dry in evening; with expectoration of tenacious mucus, generally somewhat salt, often only flat or sour in morning. With vomiting of food and sweat on forehead. With suffocative attacks. Rattling, hollow. Whooping cough after eating or anger (in children). Nightly, with expectoration of mucus. After the paroxysms, dizziness, sweat on forehead, yawning and great sleepiness.

Trachea.—Much mucus rattling in.

Neck.—Weakness of muscles. Eruption on nape.

Chest.—Oppression of. Rattling in. Perceptible palpitation with (or without) fear.

Back.—Pain as from fatigue in, and in lumbar region.

Upper Extremities.—Twitching of muscles of arms and hands. Trembling hands. Burning of hands. Deadness and coldness of finger-tips.

Generalities.—Great weakness and feebleness. Fainting attacks. Sense of internal trembling. Beating and pulsating in all bloodvessels. Convulsive twitches. Sensitiveness of body to touch. The symptoms are intensified toward evening and when sitting.

Skin.—Pustules like those of smallpox or cowpox. Eruption of pocks as large as a pea containing pus.

Sleep.—Jerks and shocks thro' body during. Intense and irresistible somnolency, with deep, stupefying sleep. Sleepiness, with involuntary closure of eyes. Much yawning.

Fever.—Pulse: Full, hard and accelerated, sometimes intermittent. Strong throbbing in bloodvessels. Often slow and imperceptible during decline of fever. Extraordinarily accelerated from the slightest motion. Chill: And external coldness predominate at all times of day, with somnolency; mostly with trembling and shaking, often as if water were poured over one. Alternating with heat during day. With a pale face. Heat: Violent, but of short duration after a long chill, increased by every movement. Long-continued, after a short chill, with somnolency and sweat on forehead. Sweat: All over, most profuse on face, also at night. Often cold and clammy. Most profuse on suffering parts. ntermittent fever, with thirstlessness and somnolency.

Allied Remedies.—BELL., Chin., Coccl., Con., Ip., NIT-AC., Op., Pul., Sep.

APIS.

Mind.—Anxiety and premonition of death. Irritability and violent anger, everything goes wrong. Extraordinary nervous restlessness, does not know what to do with herself, so that tears come to her eyes; overbusy and inconstant. Screaming or stupidity interrupted by sudden piercing shrieks. Unconsciousness. Absent minded, impaired memory; indifferent. Suspicion and jealousy.

Head.—Bursting, expansive pain in, with vertigo and mental confusion. Brain feels tired, gone to sleep and crawling in. Headaches > from pressure and diarrhœa. Scalp: Sensitive. Hot sweat on.

Eyes.—Burning and itching of. Inflammatory or œdematous swelling of lids. Lids everted. Profuse lachrymation. Photophobia. Desire to rub. Better: Bathing in cold water.

Ears.—Purple. Swelling of lymphatic gland behind.

Nose.—Cold tip. Itching and frequent sneezing.

Face.—Puffy. Erysipelatous redness of. Red stripes on. Lips greatly swollen.

Mouth.—Dry with burning raw feeling, as it scalded in, and in throat, followed by vesicles on edge of tongue, without thirst. Adhesive mucus in, and in throat. Fiery redness and painful tenderness of buccal cavity and throat. Swelling, especially of tongue.

Throat.—Sense of constriction, soreness, stinging or itching in. Breathing and swallowing very difficult, every drop of liquid put upon the tongue nearly suffocates him. Swelling of, and of glands of; worse from hot drinks

Eructations.—Tasting like yolk of egg, during headache.

Nausea, etc.—Progressing to vomiting, with fainting. Vomiting with abdominal symptoms or diarrhœa.

Thirst.—Generally absent, but occasionally it is intense.

Stomach.—Hot vapor seems to rise from. Prickling as from needles. Oppression at pit. Burning in.

Abdomen.—Bruised soreness of, < pressure, sneezing or touch. Inflated sensation in. Rumbling in. Heaviness in.

Anus, Rectum and Stool.—Diarrhœa, with feeling of rawness in anus ; with extreme weaknes. Stools pass with every motion of the body, as if anus stood open. Stools contain lumps of bloody mucus. Tenesmus.

Urine.—Burning and soreness when urinating. Frequent, profuse urination. Suppressed or scanty. Strangury. Brickdust sediment.

Sexual Organs.—Sexual excitement. Uterine hemorrhage with yawning. Miscarriage. Flow of menses relieves burning in abdomen. Ovaries: Stinging, drawing, cutting or sore pains, more in right, < from coition, standing or walking.

Respiration.—Suffocation: With a sensation that he would not be able to breathe again; can bear nothing about throat, wants to be fanned; < lying down. Oppression of, with desire to take a deep breath. Respiration and cough are < lying on left side.

Cough.—Violent shocks of cough from a crawling irritation near the throat pit; increased headache at every shock. Worse: In a warm room, after lying and sleeping. Better: By a little expectoration.

Larynx, etc.—Hoarseness: in morning; with difficult breathing.

Chest.—Stinging or stitches in. Bruised soreness; < coughing Fulness in. Heart: Feeble heart beat. Violent, audible palpitation. Acute pain below heart, extending towards right chest.

Neck and Back.—Neck stiff. Nettlerash on. Bruised feeling in. Odor from axillæ greatly intensified.

Upper Extremities.—Sensitiveness of. Painfulness of bones. Numb finger-tips. Sensation as if nails were loose Blood settles under nails. Burning, pricking, especially in finger-tips. Swelling of.

Lower Extremities.—Feel paralyzed. Sore pains. Sensation in feet and toes, as if too large, swollen and stiff. Painful fulness in soles, as if walking on cushions. Crawling in. Numb.

Generalities.—Swelling of affected parts, with burning, itching, stinging or shooting pains. Œdema ; dropsy, anasarca, etc ; puffing up of the whole body. Sense of tightness in many parts, especially abdomen. Bruised soreness all over. Sensitiveness of mind and body, or apathy, numbness and anæsthesia with awkwardness causing her to drop things. Lassitude, weakness and sudden prostration. Trembling. Sensations: Of sudden stinging or stabbing; of swelling, soreness, rawness, drawing, prickling, crawling or as if parts were going to sleep. Pain causes fainting. Symptoms often move from right to left. Want of thirst predominates.

Worse.—Touch ; heat.

Better.—Cold ; open air.

Glands.—Swelled. Redness of lymphatics.

Skin.—Stinging, prickling, burning, smarting and itching all over. Exceedingly sensitive, even the hair is painful to touch. Red spots, like bee stings on. Swelling and erysipelatous redness of, then desquamation of whole surface.

Appearance of a nettlerash like eruption > the other symptoms. Receding or suppressed eruptions. Wheals. Urticaria. Burning like fire in spots, altho' parts may be cold. Better: Rubbing.

Sleep.—Somnolency: With prostration; with nervous restlessness. Screaming out, or terrified starting during. Dreams: Full of laborious ; of heat ; of flying ; quarrels, etc.

Fever.—Pulse: Full and accelerated; more seldom small and thready; occasionally intermittent and imperceptible. Chill: Severest towards evening. Shivering c., in afternoon (3 or 4 o'clock) increased by warmth. Shivering from least motion, especially towards evening, with heat of head and hands. Heat: Without thirst. Dry, toward evening. The sensation of heat is greatest on chest and epigastric region. Sweat: Alternating with dry skin.

Antidotes.—Canth., Carb-v.

Allied Remedies.—Apoc., ARS., Bell., Canth., Chin., Coccl., Dulc., Ferr., Graph., Hell., Hep., Iod., Kali-c., Kali iod., Lach., Lyc., Merc., Millef., NAT-M., PULS., Rhus-t., Sep., Sul., URT-U.

ARGENTUM METALLICUM.

Mind.—Anxiety driving him from place to place. Dejection. Taciturnity.

Vertigo.—With dim vision.

Head.—Crawling and whirling in, as from intoxication. Hollow feeling in, with soreness of whole brain. Pressing, tearing in skull, especially in temporal bones. Smarting soreness on external. Pressure and tearing in skull bones. Worse: Pressure ; touch. Better: Open air.

Ears.—Gnawing itching of external.

Nose.—Nosebleed preceded by crawling in. Severe, fluent coryza with frequent sneezing.

Face.—Red. Pressing and tearing in bones of. Swelled upper lip.

Mouth.—Raw, and sore smarting pain in throat when coughing, less when swallowing. Inflammation and narrowing of throat (after abuse of mercury), so that food passes through with difficulty. Sore throat, as tho' swollen internally. Sore, burning vesicles on tongue.

Appetite, etc.—Unusually good. Aversion to all food, even when thinking thereof.

Abdomen.—Painful distension of. Flatulent colic.

Stool.—Frequent, soft, but always scanty.

Urine.—Frequent urging to urinate with copious discharge. Polyuria.

Sexual Organs.—Pollutions almost every night.

Cough.—By day, with easy expectoration.

Larynx, etc.—Raw, sore pain in. Much gelatinous gray mucus in trachea, which is easily expectorated.

Upper Extremities.—Tension and tearing in arms, especially in bones of hands and fingers.

Lower Extremities.—Stitches in hip when walking. Pain in knee when sitting. Tearing in bones of feet and toes.

Generalities.—Bruised pain in joints. Asleep or stiff sensation in extremities. Pain in internal organs, as if raw or sore. Epileptic attacks. Effects of abuse of mercury (and of onanism). Symptoms recur each noon.

Bones.—Tearing pains in.

Skin.—Corrosive, burning itching here and there.

Fever.—Pulse: Accelerated in evening after lying down. Chill: In afternoon and evening until falling to sleep, also before midnight from slightest raising of covers. Spreads from the back. Heat: In forenoon, over the entire body, it is true yet less on head. Without thirst. Sweat: On abdomen and chest only.

Allied Remedies.—Merc.

ARGENTUM NITRICUM.

Mind.—Imbecile appearance, shy and childish. Weak memory, confusion of thought. Falters in speech. Anxiety: With gastrointestinal symptoms ; with palpitation ; apprehensive, hurried and impulsive. Distraction. Taciturn. Timid. Builds air-castles by day and has monstrous dreams at night.

Vertigo.—As if intoxicated; with confusion; with headache ; with buzzing in ears, weak limbs and trembling ; with blindness.

Head.—Enlarged feeling, as if to burst, with eructations and chilliness. As if in a vise. As of a cool current in. Unilateral radiating, digging or boring pains so violent that he loses his senses, with sour taste and vomiting. Worse: Mental exertion and in open air. Better: Tight bandaging.

Scalp.—Extremely troublesome itching and crawling. Roots of hair feel pulled upward.

Eyes.—Ophthalmia with sticking pains and swelled carunculæ, conjunctiva bloodred, swollen or puckered. Agglutinated lids. Filled with mucus. Dilated pupils. Misty vision. Serpents, gray spots or fiery bodies before. Chemosis. Opacity of cornea. Worse: From heat of fire. Better: In cool air.

Nose.—Coryza with chillness. Sneezing excited by tingling in and in posterior nares. Obstructed in room but flowing a thin mucus in open air. Bruised pain in bones of. Violent itching, rubs until it becomes raw. Blows bloody, purulent mucus from, as cough improves. Dull sense of smell.

Face.—Sickly, sunken, pale or bluish. Aged expression.

Teeth.—Grumbling digging in < from cold or sour things. Loose. Readily bleeding gums.

Tongue.—Red, painful tip, with prominent papillæ.

Mouth.—Dry. Salivation.

Taste.—Astringent, metallic, like ink, sweetish or clayey; straw-like to food.

Throat.—Dark red. Thick, tenacious mucus in, obliges hawking. As of a splinter in. Rawness, soreness or roughness in. Tickling in, causing lachrymation. Cramps, choking or astringent sensation in.

Appetite.—Irresistible for sugar.

Eructations.—Violent, tasting of ingesta.

Nausea.—With gnawing in stomach and shuddering. Retching > from eating.

Stomach.—Pit: Painful swelling of ; sense of a lump in. Radiating, twisting, griping, ulcerative gnawing or dragging pains, > from diarrhœa, < touch, drinking, after food and by deep inspiration. Sense of being filled unto bursting, > copious eructations.

Abdomen.—Flatulent distension, > passing flatus. Gurgling in. Feeling of a ball rising into throat from. Drawing extending into groins ; dragging in. Stitches. Intolerance of lacing. Worse: Lying on right side.

Anus.—Creeping with burning in.

Stool.—Scanty, watery or of greenish, fetid mucus with noisy flatus or flatulent colic. Diarrhœa from eating sugar, after mental motions or drinking. In flakes like spinach.

Urine.—Can't pass urine in a projecting stream. Urethra: Feels swollen, hard and knotty ; cutting from behind forward in; stretched feeling in, during coition.

Sexual Organs.—Chancre-like ulcers in prepuce. Desire wanting, with shrivelled genitals. Painful coition.

Respiratory Organs.—Hoarseness. Cough: With lachrymations from tickling in throat and palate ; with suffocation ; worse from tobacco smoke.

Chest.—Burning.—Heaviness. Worse while lying down and in evening. Palpitation: Irregular heart beat, < thinking thereof, > from motion in open air.

Back.—Lumbar pain, < rising from sitting, > walking. Heaviness in sacrum.

Extremities.—Chorea-like motions. Startings in. Paralysis.

Generalities.—Great debility: With trembling; with rigidity and bruised feeling in calves and loins. Incoherent ideas and incoordinate movements. Feeling of a hot fluid running along parts, skin, urethra, etc. Sensation: Of expansion; of bursting; as if bones of head were separating or sacral bones were loose; as of a band about parts. Boring pains. Pains in spots. Heaviness. Emaciation. Many left-sided symptoms. Splinter-like sensations.

Worse.—Emotions ; mental strain ; thinking ; in a warm room.

Skin.—Tense and hard. Leaden hue.

Sleep.—Sleepless from fancies. Dreams of serpents, with horror.

Fever.—Chills: Along spine; creeping, with nausea. Heat: With burning, in spots. With chillness on uncovering. Sweat: On palms, lower abdomen and inside of thighs.

Complementary.—Puls.

Antidote.—Nat-m.

Allied Remedies.—Arg-m., Aur., Bar-c., Gel., Hell., Hep., Lyc., Merc., Merc-c., Nit-ac., Pul., Thuj.

ARNICA.

Mind.—Unconsciousness. Distraction and inability to think. Great fear and restlessness. Lachrymose humor. Oversensitive. Refuses to reply to anything. Rage. Peevish, willful, quarrelsome mood. Anger, followed by screaming and weeping.

Sensorium.—Whirling vertigo with nausea when rising up and during motion; > lying. Fainting after physical injuries.

Head.—Congestion to. Burning or heat of, with coldness of rest of body. Pressing pain in forehead. Tearing and inward sticking in temples and forehead. Compressive ache. Stitches in. Concussion of brain. Aching over one eye, with vomiting of green water, after overlifting. Cutting like a knife through head, followed by a cold feeling and bristling hair. Feeling: As if brain were rolled into a lump; as if a nail were thrust into one temple; of crawling in forehead over orbit, also upon vertex. Worse: Forenoon and evening; motion; shaking; coughing; mental exertion; midnight; after eating; raising eyes; becoming cold. Better: Rest; lying horizontally or on painful side.

External Head.—Crawling, tearing in the bone itself, most severe in region of temples (after trauma). Crawling in vertex. Tension from vertex down to brows. Scalp adheres tightly to cranium. Worse: Touch. Better: Warmth; rubbing; wrapping up warmly.

Eyes.—Inflamed and bloodshot after injuries. Dim, lustreless. Swollen, ecchymosed lids. Burning tears. Photophobia.

Ears.—Stitches in, and behind. Difficult hearing, with roaring before. Earache, as from a contusion.

Nose.—Crawling in. Pain in, as if crushed. Swelling and ecchymosis of. Epistaxis.

Face.—Pale, sunken. Heat of, with coldness of body. Unilateral redness and swelling of cheeks. Crawling about eyes, in cheeks and lips. Bursted, burning lips. Swollen, submaxillary glands.

Teeth.—Aching, with crawling in gums and a swelled cheek.

Mouth.—Offensive odor from, early in morning. Bleeding from. Burning in throat. Swallowing impeded by a sort of qualmishness. Noisy deglutition. White-coated tongue.

Appetite, etc.—Craving for vinegar. Violent thirst for cold water, without heat.

Taste.—Foul or bitter.

Eructation.—Foul or bitter. Like rotten eggs. Regurgitation of bitter mucus.

Nausea, etc.—Qualmishness and empty retching. Vomiting: Of ingesta (often mixed with blood) after drinking; of dark, coagulated blood.

Stomach.—Cramp in. Fulness in. Stitches in pit, with pressure extending into back and constriction of chest.

Hypochondria.—When walking stitches in spleen with arrested breathing.

Abdomen.—Hard, distended. Pain in after overlifting (also during pregnancy). Contusive pain in sides of. Pain about

navel during motion. Colic with retained urine.

Flatulence.—Torturing. Discharged flatus has odor of rotten eggs.

Stool.—Retained, with ineffectual urging. Undigested. Unnoticed. Involuntary. Diarrhœa with tenesmus. Ineffectual tenesmus.

Urine.—Retention of, from spasm of sphincter vesicæ. Brownish-red, with brick-red sediment. Hæmaturia. Ineffectual urging to urinate. Involuntary urination at night in bed and during day when walking.

Sexual Organs.—Bluish-red swelling of penis and scrotum. Hot swelling of testes (after contusion). Hydrocele. Inflamed vagina and uterus after (difficult) childbirth. After pains too painful and too long continued.

Respiration.—Anxious oppression of. Foul smelling breath.

Cough.—Dry, excited by crawling in trachea, with stitches in head. When coughing, inability to expectorate, on the contrary must swallow what is loosened. Hæmoptysis, of bright foamy blood mixed with small clots. Expectoration of black blood in coagulated lumps, without cough, after every exertion. Expectoration of badly tasting slime in evening. Wailing, crying and weeping precede and follow the paroxysm.

Larynx.—Scraping in.

Chest.—Bruised pain and compression in. Burning in. Stitches in < from coughing and motion, > by external pressure. Rawness in. Stitches in (left side). Bruised feeling in ribs. Jerking heart beat. Erysipelas and inflammation of female mammæ. Excoriated nipples.

Back.—Crawling in. Stitches in loins. Bruised sensation in, and in lumbar region.

Upper Extremities.—Bruised sensation in arms. Crawling in arms. Sprained pain in joints of arm and hand. Distended bloodvessels on hands.

Lower Extremities.—Bruised feeling in legs. Crawling in legs. Tension and weariness in thighs. Pale swelling of knee. Hot, erysipelatous inflammation and painfulness of feet. Podagra.

Generalities.—Bruised pain with crawling in entire body, from every motion. Stiffness of limbs after excessive exertion. Oversensitiveness of entire body. Constant restlessness of body and tossing about. Shifting pains in joints quickly change place. Twitching muscles. Ebullitions of blood. Apoplexy with exudation. Ecchymosis and hemorrhages of internal and external parts. Complaints (also inflammations) after blows, falls or contusions. The symptoms are intensified in the evening and at night, as well as from touch, motion and even from noise.

Bones.—Drawing in periosteum, before fever.

Skin.—Numerous small boils. Hot, hard, glistening swelling (i. e., as from insect stings). Ecchymoses. Wounds. Excoriations (bed sores) of invalids.

Sleep.—Day sleepiness, with inability to sleep. Somnolency, with flightiness. Anxious dreams.

Fever.—Pulse: Very variable, mostly full, hard and accelerated. Sometimes very weak and slow. Alternate quick and slow action of pulse and heart. Strong pulsation thro' whole body in evening. Chill: Internal coldness with external warmth. With great thirst, which often precedes it, as if cold water were poured over one, for the most part in the evening. And coldness of lower parts of body, with heat of upper, especially of head. Universal, with heat and redness of one cheek. After every nap. From slightest lifting of covers. Alternating with heat. Cold sensation of side on which he lies. Heat: Dry, which is either general or only running over the face or back. Burning in single parts of body, which feel cold externally. Or coldness, now here now there. In evening, with pains in limbs. Internal with external coldness. Sweat: for the most part sour or offensive smelling; sometimes cold.

Allied Remedies.—Acon., Ap., Ars., Bry., Cann., Caps., Chin., CIC., Ferr., Ign., IP., Merc., Millef., Phyt., Pul., Rhus-t. Sabi., Samb., Scill., Seneg., Verat-a., ZINC.

ARSENICUM.

Mind.—Anxiety, restlessness and cold feeling from vexation. Inclined to hang himself. Derangement mental weakness and satiety of life in drunkards. Anxiety at night which allows him no rest. Anxiety and despair · often mounting to madness during pain. Attacks of great fear of being alone, (of thieves, ghosts,) or death. Mad brutal obstinacy. Takes everything in bad part. Inclination to talk about faults of others ; love of scandal. Malice. Capricious disposition. Crying and whining of children.

Sensorium.—Fainting from weakness with a scarcely perceptible pulse. Chaotic condition and heaviness of head, when in a room.

Head.—Burning and shocks in. Swelling of. Throbbing pain in forehead with nausea. Pressure as of a load bearing down on brain, with exhaustion and humming in. Worse: Night; in morning when standing or sitting in room ; motion, raising up. Better: transiently, from cold bathing, permanently in open air and from warmth.

External Head.—Burning, itching most on bregma but also on occiput, less on sides, scratching causes bleeding, more violent burning and some moisture, later foul festers among many dry whitish, burning, itching, bran-like scales appear. Burning itching gatherings on, with festering pain when touched and sensitiveness of head to touch and cold. Erysipelatous burning swelling of entire head, face (and genitals) with general coldness, chill, aversion to uncovering, great exhaustion and nightly aggravation.

Eyes.—Red, inflamed with burning pains. Inflammation on inner surface of lids, impedes opening them. Spots on cornea.

Ears.—Difficult hearing for the human voice, everything else is distinctly heard.

Nose.—Swelling and burning of. Ulcers in. Cancer of. Violent, fluent coryza with discharge of acrid burning water.

Face.—Earthy, pale or yellow color. Distorted, deathly countenance. Blue and puffy, especially about eyes. Unnatural redness of. Milk crust. Drawing sticking here and there. Cancer of, and of lips with burning pains. Blackish, fissured lips. Crawling sensation on denuded lower lip, as of something alive there. Swollens ubmaxillary glands.

Teeth.—Nightly aching > external warmth. Bleeding gums.

Mouth.—Bad odor from. Thrush. Inflammation of œsophagus. Burning and roughness in fauces. Dry, black, fissured tongue. Gangrene of tongue.

Appetite, etc.—Desire for sour things and brandy. Continual craving for fluids, drinks frequently but little at a time.

Taste.—Bitter: In mouth after eating and drinking ; of bread.

Nausea, etc.—Retching. Qualmishness rising into throat. Vomiting: chronic, of food immediately after eating; after every drink; black, with anxiety in epigastrium.

Stomach.—Burning in, with bitter eructations. Great painfulness in pit. Pressure in. Cancer of. Stomachache with anxiety.

Hypochondriæ.—Indurated liver. Stitches.

Abdomen.—Distended, hard. Burning in. Stitches in sides of. Nightly twitching pains in. Ascites. Bruised pain in. Indurated mesenteric glands. Painfnl swelling of inguinal glands.

Stool.—Burning evacuations with intense cutting in abdomen. Diarrhœa : Very offensive, with persistent coldness ; dysenteric; white; involuntary; burning; chronic, watery and painful. Constipation.

Anus, etc.—Burning pain in rectum. Burning hæmorrhoids.

Urine.—Retention of, or difficult urination. Burning.

Sexual Organs.—Painful swelling of Erysipelatous inflammation of scrotum.

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

Respiration.—Tightness of chest during

motion. Suffocative attacks in evening after lying down. Oppression of chest when ascending and when in cold air. Shortness of, when walking or turning over in bed.

Cough.—Clear, ringing, crowing or whistling, excited by burning tickling as from sulphur vapor in trachea and throat pit; dry at night; by day, expectoration of a scanty, mostly foamy, mucus, or in lumps of varying taste and color, sometimes mixed with bright red blood, returning periodically with increasing violence. Without expectoration, especially after drinking. Immediately on lying down. Nightly hemoptysis with heat.

Trachea.—Phthisis of, with scanty secretion of mucus. Constriction of larynx.

Chest.—Burning (or chilliness) in. Constriction of, with want of breath, from every movement. Distension of. Itching in. Nightly anxious palpitation. Cancer of breast. Hydrothorax. Sticking and pressing in sternum.

Back.—Intense burning. Nightly tearing.

Upper Extremities.—Nightly tearing in arms from elbows to shoulders. Black pimples on arms. Nightly sensation ot fulness and swelling in palm of hand. Chafing between fingers. Discolored nails.

Lower Extremities.—Twitching in hip. Tearing sticking in hip, lumbar region and thigh. Nightly tearing in legs. Bruised sensation in knee-joint. Old ulcers on legs, with burning and sticking, especially at night. Itching herpes in popliteal spaces. Hard, burning swelling of feet. Painfulness of balls of toes, as if rubbed sore when walking. Podagra. Varicose veins.

Generalities.—Burning pains in various parts. Tearing pains in limbs are most violent at night and during rest after previous overexertion, are only endurable when walking about and from external warmth, which he craves. Extraordinarily rapid sinking of strength. Great restlessness in limbs. Emaciation. Tremblings. Elastic swellings. Convulsions. Worse: During rest, especially after previous violent exercise; by addressing others; after eating and lying down; immediately after midnight. Better: By external warmth and exercise. It sometimes rescues when all appears lost, but only when given in the smallest doses and a high potency.

Skin.—Dry, cold. General œdema. Flat ulcers, with burning pain and ichorous discharge. Gangrenous ulcers, vesicles. Cold swellings.

Sleep.—Frequent starting up and twitching in. Somnolency in evening. Sleeplessness, with constant restlessness and tossing about. Inability to fall asleep after once awaking at night. Anxious dreams.

Fever.—Pulse: Weak and small, but greatly accelerated, often imperceptible and entirely wanting or intermittent. Quick, early in morniug, slow in evening. Burning or cold sensation in bloodvessels. Chill: (And heat) indistinct, either concomitant or alternating. In forenoon, which nothing relieves. Internal, with external heat. And shuddering after every drink. Without thirst. External coldness, with cold, clammy sweat. During the chill (and heat) many concomitants which before were only of slight importance now appear in severity. General coldness of body or of diseased parts. Shivering in evening, with tearing in limbs and anxious restlessness. Heat: Internal, burning, dry. Dry in evening and at night, with thirst for frequent drinks, but only a little each time. Nightly, as if dashed with hot water. Sweat: At end of the fever, with disappearance of all symptoms, even the concomitants. When first falling to sleep, or thro' whole night. Cold, clammy, sour or offensive smelling. Unquenchable thirst during.

Allied Remedies.—Aco., Am-m., Ant-c., Arn., APIS, Bar-c., Brom., Bry., Calc-c., Carb-v., CHAM., Chin., Coff., Colch., Dig., Dulc., Euphor., FERR., Graph., HEP., Ign., IOD., IP., Kali-bi., Kali-c., KRE., Lach., LYC., Mag-c., MERC., MERC-C., Mos., Mur-ac., Nat-m., NUX-V., Petr., Phos., Phos-ac., Plb., Ran-s., (RHUS-T.), Samb., Scill., Sec-c., Sep., Sil., Stam., Staph., SUL., Sul-ac., Verat-a.

ASAFŒTIDA.

Mind.—Very excitable and sensitive disposition with indifference to everything. Hypochondriacal and hysterical restlessness and anxiety. Vacillating mood, and inconstancy.

Head.—Congestion to, with throbbing. Fleeting stitches in forehead, sides or temples, which jerk outward thro' head. Pressure as of a dull instrument or plug in sides and temples. Outward pressure, with pressing over eyes as if sleepy. Stupefying tension, most in left side. Worse: Afternoon and evening; rest; in room; after lying down; sitting bent. Better: Walking in open air; raising up; touch.

Eyes.—Burning in balls, also extending from within outward. Dry feeling in.

Ears.—Difficult hearing, with suppuration of.

Nose.—Pressure in, as if it would burst. (Ham.) Sense of numbness in bridge of. Offensive, purulent discharge from.

Face.—Sense of tensive numbness in bones of. Pressive numb feeling in chin.

Mouth.—Dryness and burning in, and in pharynx. Sensation of a body ascending into throat.

Eructation.—Acrid, rancid, as after fat food.

Stomach.—Pressure in, after eating. Feeling of fulness in region of. Pulsation in pit of. Disordered, after fat food.

Hypochondia.—Pressive or sticking pains from within outward in liver.

Abdomen.—Sticking pain from within outward in sides of.

Flatulence.—Pinching flatulent colic. Much stinking flatus.

Stool.—Ineffectual urging to. Foul smelling diarrhœa with bellyache and discharge of stinking flatus.

Urine.—Brown, acrid smelling. Spasm of bladder during and after urination.

Respiration.—Compression of chest with rapid breathing and a small pulse. Spasmodic tightness of chest, as if lungs could not be sufficiently expanded.

Chest.—Pressure, with difficult respiration. Throbbing in. Sticking from within outward in. Palpitation.

Back.—Sticking in scapulæ, muscles of back and loins.

Upper Extremities.—Twitching of muscles of arms and hands.

Lower Extremities.—Twitching of muscles of legs and feet. Swollen ankles. Sticking and throbbing in great toe.

Generalities.—Jumping and quivering of muscles in many parts. Continued dull sticking pains from within outward. Puffiness and heaviness of body. Chorea. Hysterical attacks. Most of the pains are associated with a numb feeling in affected parts. Great sensitiveness to touch. The pains are ameliorated or change place from touch, but on the other hand are not affected by a change of position.

Bones.—Painful osteitis. Softening and curvature of (rachitis). Interstitial distension of. Caries with thin, ichorous, fetid pus.

Skin.—Hot, dark-red swelling of single parts. External inflammations with inclination to suppuration. Gangrenous ulcers with unhealthy pus and painful areolæ.

Sleep.—Unusually great desire for.

Fever.—Pulse: Small, but greatly accelerated and irregular. Chill: Coldness and dry skin. In afternoon, shuddering running over body, especially over back. Heat: Of face after dinner, with anxiety and sleepiness, but without thirst. Sweat: Entirely wanting; only seldom a somewhat cold moisture on skin.

Allied Remedies.—Arg-n., Aur., Caust., CHIN., Men., MERC., Nit-ac., Phos-ac., Plat., Puls., Sep.

ASARUM.

Mind.—Pressive confusion in head. Vanishing of thought. Melancholy peevishness. Tearful sadness. Nervous excitement with great liveliness.

Head.—Pressive pain in forehead with qualmishness, < by every mental exertion. Attacks of unilateral arthritic headache, every afternoon at five o'clock. Compressive pain in forehead, temples

and behind ears, with lachrymation and burning in eyes. Worse: Afternoon ; walking. Better: Sitting ; washing.

External Head.—Entire scalp so tense that the hair feels painful, and the nerves are affected. Worse: Warm dry air. Better: Bathing in cold water.

Eyes.—Burning and sense of dryness within. Red conjunctiva with sticking in canthi. Sense of coldness in. Bleared, inflamed. In evening when in room, burning as from brandy in, with constant lachrymation. Cold air feels agreeable, but sunshine, light and wind are unendurable. Staring. Dim vision.

Ears.—Pressure and tension on orifice of auditory canal. Diminished hearing.

Mouth.—Much, cool, watery saliva in.

Taste.—Bread and tobacco taste bitter.

Eructation.—Foul. Heartburn with sour eructations which dull the teeth.

Nausea.—Violent, empty retching which < all symptoms. Vomiting in violent efforts, with anxiety and chilliness.

Hypochondriæ.—Smarting, excoriating pain in spleen.

Abdomen.—Pinching pain in left, extending into back. Intense colic with vomiting. Inguinal hernia.

Stool.—Cutting in abdomen before. Prolapsus recti during. Discharge of black, thick blood during. After stool, pressing, with discharge of white, tenacious, bloody mucus. Diarrhœa : Of tenacious, mucus, with blood; of undigested food, especially potatoes. Soft, with ascarides and reddish mucus.

Sexual Organs.—Suppressed sexual desire.

Menses.—Of black blood, too early and too prolonged. Violent pain in small of back, so that she can hardly breathe, at start of.

Respiration.—Short, as tho' one were breathing in a sack.

Cough.—From irritation in larynx, with copious expectoration of mucus.

Larynx.—Constriction of, with shortness of breath.

Neck.—Sensation as if cravat were to tight. Contractive cramp in neck, nape and limbs.

Chest.—Contractive squeezing in lungs. Stitches in lungs during inspiration.

Back.—Bruised feeling in.

Upper Extremities.—Drawing in wrists and fingers.

Lower Extremities.—Chronic pressive pain in hips, which impedes stepping. Cramp in thighs. Weariness in knees. Stitches in ankles.

Generalities.—Excessively sensitive nerves, scratching on linen, silk, etc. is unendurable. Sense of lightness of limbs, when walking he imagines himself floating in air. Symptoms from worms. Many symptoms disappear upon washing (the face) with cold water. Evening aggravations.

Sleep.—Late falling to sleep on account of ebullition of blood.

Fever.—Pulse: Quick and strong. Chill: Sensation of coldness in forenoon, after eating, drinking and in open air, mostly with heat of head. Much shivering during day. Coldness and chilliness without thirst. Coldness alternating with flushes of burning heat. Heat: In evening after lying down, especially on face and palms of hands. Sweat: Sour smelling, increased at night, and otherwise when sitting still, most profuse in axillæ. Generally very easy, especially on upper part of body.

Allied Remedies.—Cupr., Nux-v., Phos.

AURUM.

Mind.—Debility from mental labor. Melancholy mood with restlessness and longing for death. Irresistible inclination to weep. Religious melancholy with praying. Melancholy with rancor. He does nothing but ask questions. Great anguish driving him to suicide. Despair of himself as well as others. From slightest opposition he flies into a heated passion and anger. Alternate laughing and crying, or alternate anger and sadness. Unfortunate love. Hypochondriasis. Taciturnity. Scrupulosity.

Head.—Intense congestion to, with heat therein. Bruised pain in forepart of, on awaking, causing confusion of ideas. Tumult and roaring in. Pain in skull bones. Worse: Everv mental exertion; stooping; cold. Better: Raising up ; warm wrapping ; in open air.

External Head.—Exostoses, boring painfully of themselves, but worse when touched or lain upon. Boring tearing in skull bones readily passing into inflammation and necrosis. Worse: Becoming cold. Better: Warm wrapping ; external pressure.

Eyes.—Tensive pain in. Inflammation and suppuration of. Protruding. Fire and sparks before. Paralysis of optic nerve. Horizontal half vision.

Ears.—Discharge of foul-smelling pus from. Humming in. Caries of mastoid.

Nose.—Caries of nasal bones. Bone pain in bridge of. Cancer of. Fetid odor from. Greatly heightened sense of smell.

Face.—Glistening, puffy. Swelled cheeks. Osteitis. Tensive pain in upper jaw. Painful swelling of submaxillary glands.

Teeth.—Ulcerated gums with toothache and heat in head.

Mouth.—Foul odor like old cheese from. Caries of hard palate.

Appetite, etc.—Excessive hunger and thirst with sore feeling in stomach.

Abdomen.—Protruding inguinal hernia. Disagreeable feeling in.

Flatulence.—Nightly flatulent colic.

Stool.—Nightly diarrhœas. Copious.

Urine.—Painful retention of, with urging and pressing in bladder. Copious, watery.

Sexual Organs.—Indurated testes. Swelling of under part of testes. Increased sexual desire. Nightly erection and pollutions. Prolapsus uteri.

Respiration.—Suffocative attacks with constrictive oppression of chest. Great tightness in thorax, with necessity to take a deep breath.

Chest.—Anxious palpitation from congestion thereto.

Back.—Intense backache.

Upper Extremities.—Tearing in joints of hands and fingers.

Lower Extremities.—Paralytic weakness in knee, as if bandaged. Tearing in joints and bones of feet and toes.

Generalities.—Paralytic tearing in joints, early, on awaking, and when parts become cold. Gouty nodes. Dropsical swelling of body. Strong ebullition in blood throughout entire body, with violent palpitation. Over sensitive to cold and every pain. Desire for open air. Hysterical spasms with alternate laughing and weeping.

Bones.—Bone pains. Osteitis. Caries.

Skin.—Cracked. Mercurial ulcers, which also attack the bones.

Sleep.—Sleepiness after dinner. Restless, with anxious dreams. Nightly delirium.

Fever.—Pulse: Small, but accelerated. Much ebullition of blood in entire body, and strong congestion to head and chest. Chill: Predominating. And coldness of hands and feet, also when in bed, often continuing the whole night. In evening in bed, general shaking chill without thirst and not followed by heat. Coldness of entire body, with nausea. Heat: Mostly in face, only alternating with chill. Sweat: In early morning, most profuse on and about sexual organs.

Allied Remedies.—Asaf., Cal-c., Coff. Merc., Nux-v., Phos., Pul.

BARYTA CARBONICA.

Mind.—Averse to playing. Disposed to weep. Sudden ebullitions of temper with cowardice. Mental weakness in old people. Extraordinary forgetfulness. Critical and irresolute. Want of selfconfidence. Dread of man (especially strangers). Excessive activity and restlessness.

Vertigo.—With nausea while stooping.

Head.—Pressive ache just over the eyes. Tension in occiput. Sticking headache, when near stove.

External Head.—Painfully sensitive on side lain on, and to every touch. Feeling of blood extravasating beneath. Tension in skin of scalp and face, as if egg albumen had dried thereon, with swelling thereof. Crawling eating and