Characteristics Calcarea Phosphorica – Chelidonium

CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA.

Mind.—Loss of memory. Stupid, slow comprehension. Confusion, with flatulency, > washing in cold water. Violent screaming. Peevish; fretful, goes from place to place, likes to be alone.

Vertigo.—Accompanies many symptoms; with running from nose and aching in bones, worse in windy weather.

Head.—Vertex: Burning heat in, running down to toes; crawling over; as if ice were on upper occiput, with hot head and smarting of roots of hair. Pain along sutures. Both fontanelles open. Throbbing headache and diarrhœa during menses. Worse: Motion, stepping and exertion. Better: After eating, sneezing or applying cold water.

Eyes. — Protruding; squinting; balls feel sore or distended. Hot feeling of lids, with sweat on, and on brows. Worse : Artificial light, or when others talk about it.

Ears.—Excoriating discharges. Pains in, with, or alternating with rheumatism in other parts. Worse: Touch.

Nose.—Feeling of a foreign body in. Bleeding in afternoon. Coryza.

Face.—Pain in upper jaw bone.

Mouth.—Teeth: Contracted feeling as if a draft of wind came from roots. < Fresh air; warm or cold things. Tip of tongue sore, burning, with little blisters on. Salivation: With coryza; with a sense of dryness; copious acid saliva.

Taste.—Bitter at start of menses; disgusting, worse when hawking.

Throat.—Much hawking. Enlarged tonsils. Weakness and emptiness in fauces and throat.

Stomach. —Easy vomiting: In children; when hawking. Expanded feeling in. Burning and waterbrash. Infantile indigestion. Emptiness and sinking in, and in abdomen. Flabby. Loud eructations which alleviate the pains. Pains are better after food.

Abdomen.—Formication over: Asleep sensation in lower, in sacrum, and in lower limbs; numbness and quivering in walls Weakness in lower. Worse: After eating; cold drinks; while passing stool or urine. Better: Eructations; after passing flatus, stool and urine; lying.

Anus and Rectum.—Fistula. Throbbing in. Hemorrhoids, oozing a yellow fluid.

Stool.—Watery, burning, offensive, flatulent, with white points like flakes of pus. Cholera infantum with acute hydrocephalus. Worse: From juicy fruit; cider; during dentition; after vexation.

Urine.—Copious, with weakness.

Genitals.—Throbbing, with increased desire. Upward pressure over mons. Burning from vagina up into chest. Aching in uterus; in vagina, after nosebleed. Leucorrhœa: Albuminous; > bellyache. Profuse, dark menses. Labor-like pains, going into thighs, with involuntary stool and passing of blood when nursing child. Worse: Taking cold; while passing stool or urine.

Respiratory Organs.—Suffocation, > lying down, < raising up. Involuntary sighing.

Chest.—Milk, acid. Constriction in; > lying, <, getting up.

Neck.—Rheumatic pain, with stiffness, after being in a draft. Cramp-like pain in one side. Aching sore pain in region of parotid gland.

Back.—Ache, with uterine pains. Scapular pains. Feeling as if sacro-symphysis were separated. Worse: Lifting.

Upper Extremities.—Numbness of left arm in afternoon. Paralytic loss of power in affected part. Ulcerative pain in roots of nails.

Lower Extremities.—Caries of hip-joint with stinking pus. Inability to walk after vexation; child no longer walks; infant is unable to stand. Cramp in calves when walking.

Generalities. — Emaciation. Cretinism. Acid saliva, milk, heartburn, etc. Shifting pains. Sensations of soreness predominate. Sensations in small spots. Many symptoms go from right to left.

Bilateral pains; on both sides of throat, bladder, uterus, and chest, all going upward; upward pressure in many parts. Conditions marked by numerous concomitants or alternating symptoms.

Worse.—During dentition. Thinking of his complaints. Weather changes; cold, wet, damp weather. Sensitive to dampness. East winds. When snow melts. When menses are increased. Better: Rest.

Bones.—Pains in, especially in shin-bones, along sutures and symphyses. Slow or absent ossification of fractures, fontanelles, etc. Caries. Exostoses. Rachitis. Deficient formation of.

Skin.—Dark brown, yellowish. Red, with prickling like nettles after a bath.

Sleep.—Day sleepiness.

Fever.—Chill: With uterine pains or motions of scrotum. Coldness behind eyes; of prominent parts, ears, nose, etc.; with hot face. Heat: Running downward, without thirst. On mammæ. With many complaints. Sweat: On single parts. On palms. Cold.

Complementary: China.

Allied Remedies.—Calc-c., Calc-f., Phos., Sil.

CAMPHORA.

Mind.—Vanishing senses. Raving. Great fears, Hopeless despondency. Hurried manner. Madness.

Sensorium,—Reeling, vertigo. Stupefied and unconscious.

Head.—Violent congestion to. Constriction and throbbing in brain, especially in occiput. Meningitis from sunstroke. Convulsively drawn sideways and backward. Worse: Motion; cold; fresh air. Better: Lying down; thinking of the pain.

Eyes.—Troubled, fixed look. Sunken. Distorted. Greatly contracted pupils. Strongly reflecting and very bright objects cause photophobia.

Ears.—Hot and inflamed, externally. Suppurating ulcers in.

Face.—Deathly pale, alternating with redness. Icy cold, bluish-pale. Erysipelas on. Distorted facial expression. Trismus from spasm of masseter muscles.

Mouth.—Burning in, and down throat into stomach. Foam from.

Appetite, etc.—Thirstless. (Intense thirst.) Repugnance to tobacco.

Taste.—Bitter, of food. Of all food is intensified.

Stomach.—Burning in. Great sensitiveness of pit to touch, it causes him to scream aloud.

Abdomen.—Burning heat in entire.

Stool.—Difficult, on account of narrowing rectum. Constipation, as from want of peristaltic action of intestines.

Urine.—Retention of, with tenesmus of neck of bladder. Yellowish-green, musty smelling. Thin, weak urinary stream.

Sexual Organs.—Want of sexual desire. Complete impotency.

Respiration. — Asthmatic oppression of chest (also from copper and arsenical fumes). Intense oppression of chest, with constriction of larynx, as from sulphur vapor.

Larynx.—Crying and whining in a hollow, hoarse tone.

Chest.— Audible palpitation after eating. Trembling of heart.

Upper Extremities.—Convulsive rotation of arms. Icy cold hands.

Lower Extremities.—Great weakness of lower legs. Tensive pain in calves of legs and feet.

Generalities.—Generalized tonic spasm with unconsciousness. Epileptic and convulsive attacks of a tonic kind, he falls to the ground unconscious. Unusual and rapid sinking of strength. Insensibility. Great tendency to take cold. Great sensitiveness to cold and cold air, all the symptoms are intensified thereby. Most pains are felt only when in a partly inattentive (self-abstracted) state.

Skin.—Erysipelatous inflammations. Dry.

Sleep.—Stupefying somnolence with raving. Sleeplessness at night, as though from nervous excitement. Snoring.

Fever.—Pulse: Small, weak and slow, often imperceptible. Diminished flow of blood

to parts distant from heart. Chill: Chilliness and sensitiveness to cold air. With shuddering and shaking. General icy-coldness of entire body, with a deathly pale face, and congestion of blood to head and chest. Heat: With distended bloodvessels, increased by every movement. Sweat: Cold often clammy, always debilitating.

Allied Remedies.—Brom., Canth., Glo., OP., Sec-c'., Verat-a.

CANNABIS.

Mind.—Ideas seem to stand still. Too great rush of ideas. Sad, dejected mood. Takes everything in bad part. Cheerful, alternating with grave mania.

Vertigo.—Causing him to fall sidewise. Dizziness in head.

Head.—Violent congestion, with throbbing and agreeable warmth therein. Headache as of a stone lying on skull. Sensation of cold water dropping on scalp.

Eyes.—Inflamed, with diminished visual power. Weak, with indistinct vision. Opacity of cornea. Cataract.

Ears.—Throbbing and forcing in.

Nose.—Nosebleed follows a sense of warmth within the dry nose. Swelling and coppery redness of. Dryness and heat of.

Mouth. — Dry, without thirst. Difficult speech.

Taste.—Clay-like, in, mouth.

Eructation.—Gulping up of a bitter, sour, scratchy fluid.

Vomiting.—Of green bile.

Stomach.—Ulcerative pain in, from touch, disappearing after eating. Spasm of, with a pale, sweaty face.

Hypochondriæ.—Inflammation, and ulcerative pain in region of kidneys.

Abdomen. — Bruised pain in. Throbbing from within outward in upper. Ascites.

Stool.—Constipation and hard stool. Diarrhœa with colic.

Urine.—Retained, as from paralysis of bladder. Discharge scant, bloody, burning, passed drop by drop. Turbid.

Sexual Organs.—Urethral gonorrhœa. Painless discharge of mucus from urethra. Sticking, burning and biting in urethra during and after urination. Inflammatory swelling with dark redness of prepuce. Painful erections. Intensified sexual desire. Impotency with cold genitals.

Respiration. —Suffocative, asthmatic attacks, wherein he can breathe when sitting in an upright position only. Shortness of, and tightness as of a load on chest, with whistling or rattling breathing.

Cough.—Without, or with a tenacious, green expectoration.

Trachea, etc.—Catarrh of. Loss of voice.

Chest.—Inflammation of lungs, with stitches low down in the left side of. Heart beat is felt too low down. Thrusts and blows in cardiac region. Cardiac inflammations. Anxious palpitation.

Back.——Backache which impedes talking and obstructs breathing.

Upper Extremities.—Bruised pain in arms during motion.

Lower Extrenities.—Pain in legs, as from great exhaustion. Weariness with clumsiness and staggering when walking, and with a dull pain in knees like that from very great exhaustion. Slipping of patella when ascending steps.

Generalities.—Great weakness after meals and after motion. Exhaustion after physical exertion. Debility after talking and writing. Tonic spasms, especially of trunk and upper limbs.

Bones.—Rheumatic drawing during motion, as if in periosteum.

Sleep.—Unconquerable day sleepiness. Unrefreshing night sleep. Sleepless at night because of anxiety and heat as though dashed with hot water.

Fever.—Pulse: Very weak, slow, often almost imperceptible. Chill: Predominant, with thirst and shaking. Shaking c. over entire body. External coldness of whole body except face. Heat: In face only and very slight. Nightly burning. Sweat: Entirely absent.

Allied Remedies. — Ap., Arg-n., Arn., Bell., Calc-c., Canth., Coloc., Euphor., Men., Merc-c., Nat-m., Nit-ac., Puls., Thuj.

CANTHARIS.

Mind.—Madness like hydrophobia, renewed by looking at glistering things (water), and by touching larynx. Foolish gestures. Attacks of rage. Restless anxiety with timorousness. Pusillanimous and fainthearted. Angriness. Madness with shrieking, barking and striking about. Lamenting, whining and anxious restlessness. Amorous insanity with lewd, shameless behavior.

Head.—Painful soreness and burning in brain. Tearing ache. Meningitis, with a sense of burning, rawness and smarting in head. Inward striking most violent in forehead and occiput. Headache, as if it arose from the nape and would pass out at forehead, with vertigo. Worse: Morning and afternoon ; talking ; motion ; standing and sitting. Better : Walking; lying quietly.

Eyes.—Painful soreness and burning in. Involuntary spasmodic motion of. All objects appear yellow, with yellowness of eyes.

Nose.—Redness, burning and swelling of.

Face.—Glowing redness and swelling of. Yellow. Trismus.

Teeth.—Suppurating gums. Dental fistula.

Mouth.—Inflammation in buccal cavity and throat. Burning in throat < drinking water. Foamy saliva streaked with blood flows from. Painless inability to swallow, especially liquids. Sore throat when swallowing from inflammation and suppuration of tonsils. Feeble voice from weakness of vocal organs.

Appetite, etc.—Repugnance and aversion to all food. Thirst with aversion to all fluids.

Eructations.—Hiccoughy, which recede toward stomach. Heartburn < drinking.

Stomach.—Inflamed, with intense burning pains. Agony and restlessness in, with sensitiveness of pit.

Hypochondriæ.—Inflamed kidneys with intense burning pains. Stitches and tearing in region of kidneys. Inflammation of liver. Pain in, from obstructed flatulence.

Abdomen.—Inflamed, with burning pain and sensitiveness to touch. Burning here and there, especially in upper, with yellow spots upon painful parts.

Stool.—Dysenteric, mucus, like scrapings of intestines. Diarrhœa : Bloody; foamy, followed by cutting in abdomen.

Urine.—Retained with spasmodic pains in bladder. Suppressed secretion of, with ineffectual urging. He urinates blood drop by drop. Discharge of bloody mucus from bladder. Inflammation of bladder and urethra.

Sexual Organs.—Inflamed, tending to gangrene. Painful gonorrhœa. Suppressed gonorrhœal discharge. Intense sexual desire with incessant painful erections. Inflamed ovaries.

Menses.—Of black blood, too early and too profuse.

Respiration.—Great sense of weakness in respiratory apparatus. Tightness of breathing from constriction of larynx.

Larynx.—Burning and sticking in trachea when hawking tenacious mucus loose. Hoarseness. Weak, indistinct voice.

Chest.—Burning and sticking in. Inflammation of.

Back.—Tearing in. Spasm, with alternate emprosthotonos and opisthotonos.

Upper Extremities.—Tearing in arms.

Lower Extremities.—Tearing in legs. Gout in hip joints, with spasmodic bladder and urinary symptoms.

Generalities.—Intense, painful soreness combined with burning in all parts of, especially the cavities, of the body. Urinary spmptoms with tearing in limbs, > rubbing. Sense of dryness in joints. Most intense debility, bordering on paralysis. Over-sensitiveness of all parts. Jaundice. Dropsy. Most complaints occur on right side. Symptoms are > when lying down. Attacks recur every seven days. Coffee and oil < the symptoms.

Skin.—Scabious, itching vesicles which burn when touched. Erysipelatous inflammations.

Sleep.—Great sleepiness in afternoon. Nightly sleeplessness.

Fever.—Pulse: Very variable, mostly hard, full and accelerated, sometimes, also intermittent; more seldom weak, slow and almost imperceptible. Pulsation throughout the trembling limbs. Chill: With general coldness, attacks mostly in evening, not relieved by external warmth. Fever often consisting of chill only, with subsequent thirst, without heat. Running up the back. Heat: Burning, with anxiety and thirst. At night merely external, not sensible to patient. Sweat: From every movement. Cold, especially on hands and feet On genitals, of a urinous odor.

Allied Remedies. — ACO., Ap., Bell., Calad., Cam., Cann., Laur., LYC., PULS.

CAPSICUM.

Mind.—Dulness of all senses. Awkwardness. Exceedingly changeable moods. Self will. Reproachful. Timidity. Inclination to be jocular and given to witticism. Homesickness, with red cheeks and sleeplessness. Capricious, takes things in bad part.

Sensorium.—Intoxication and reeling, especially during the chilly stage, and on awaking in the morning.

Head.—Throbbing ache in forehead or temples. Hysterical migraine; attacks of unilateral pressive headache, with qualmishness ending in vomiting. Tearing head pains, mostly in forehead. Bursting headache during motion. Worse: Evening; moving head or eyes; cold; walking; stooping. Better: Continuous gentle motion in open air; warmth; lying with head high.

Eyes.—Dilated pupils. Dim vision. Progressive paralysis of the optic nerve.

Ears. — Swelling behind. Diminution of hearing.

Nose.—Nose-bleed, early in morning in bed. Diminished sense of smell. Stuffed coryza with crawling in.

Face.—Hot, red, often alternating with paleness. Fothergill's prosopalgia; a benumbing pressure on zygoma, excited and < by touch. Swollen, cracked lips.

Mouth. — Aphthæ. Burning vesicles in. Bad odor from. Sore throat when not swallowing. Spasmodic constriction of throat.

Appetite, etc. — Immoderately ravenous hunger alternating with aversion to food. Thirstless.

Taste.—Sour. Heartburn.

Nausea.—Coming from stomach.

Stomach.—Burning in, after eating. Swelling of pit.

Abdomen.—Distension of, with pressive, tensive pain, which takes his breath. Flatulent colic.

Stool.—Of bloody mucus, with tenesmus. Nightly diarrhœa with burning in anus. Dysenteric.

Anus.—Moist hemorrhoids with burning.

Urine.—Urging to urinate with tenesmus of neck of bladder. Discharge of blood from urethra. Burning urination.

Sexual Organs.—Purulent urethral gonorrhœa. Cold scrotum, with impotency.

Respiration.—Tight, as from fulness of chest. Tightness of chest, which seems to come from stomach. Involuntary forcible expirations. Inclination to take a deep breath. Bad smelling breath when coughing.

Cough. — Violent, dry, with concomitant symptoms and pains in other parts, especially in ears and throat, in evening and at night.

Back.—Tearing pain in.

Lower Extremities.—Pain in thigh.

Generalities.—Cracking and squeaking in joints. Stiffness and painfulness of all joints when beginning to walk. Averse to all motion. Very sensitive to cool air, especially to drafts. Persons of relaxed fibre and phlegmatic temperament. Many symptoms are < after eating and drinking, reach their greatest intensity at the beginning of, and are > during continued motion.

Sleep.—Sleepless after midnight.

Fever.—Pulse: Very irregular, often intermittent Chill: Predominates, almost always with violent thirst. With shuddering, after every drink. With heat of face. In cold air, especially in drafts. Evening chill. Diminution of natural bodily heat. Feeling of a cold sweat on thighs. Heat: With coexistent sweat and thirst. Internal, with cold sweat on forehead. Heat and sweat first, then chill with shuddering and chattering teeth. Sweat: Accompanies the heat. After the chill, without previous heat.

Allied Remedies.—Arn., CALAD., Cham., Chin., CINA., Ign., Merc-c., Nux-v., Puls.

CARBO ANIMALIS.

Mind.—Liveliness as from overexcitement, alternating with peevish sadness. Easily startled, timidity. Anxiety in evening and fear in the dark. Homesickness with tearfulness.

Vertigo.—Especially early in morning.

Head.—Numbness in. Stupefying pain or heaviness in occiput with dull confusion therein. Feeling as if brain were loose. Pressive ache, < in cold air. Scaldhead. Tightness of scalp on forehead and vertex with great sensitiveness of these parts to cold, dry, open air. Worse: Moving head; after eating; early in morning; in cold, moist air; external pressure, touch. Better: After dinner; in warm, open air; in a warm room; at rest.

Eyes.—Feel loose in their sockets. Pronounced farsightedness with dilated pupils.

Ears.—Destructive suppuration of. Roaring in. Difficult hearing, the tones commingle and nothing is heard distinctly.

Nose.—Tip cracked, red and burning. Painful nasal bones. Stuffed coryza with complete stoppage. Nosebleed. Sneezing.

Face.—Copper-colored eruption on. Smooth, elevated, erysipelatous spots on. Erysipelas of. Fissures and vesicles on lips. Swollen, burning lips.

Teeth.—Loose. Gums: Swollen, red and painful; pustules on.

Mouth.—Burning vesicles in, and on tongue. Offensive odor from.

Appetite.—Aversion to tobacco and fat food.

Taste.—Bitter, in mouth in early morning.

Throat.—Roughness in Soreness and rawness in.

Eructations.—Ineffectual, with pain.

Nausea, etc.—Qualmishness at night. Faint-like squeamishness at stomach.

Stomach.—Great weakness of digestion, almost all foods cause distress. Pressure in, even when fasting, and in evening when in bed. Grasping and clutching in. Constrictive spasm of. Audible growling in.

Hypochondria.— Pressure and cutting in hepatic region.

Abdomen.—As if shattered. Soreness in. Outward pressure in.

Flatulence-—Audible rumbling in abdomen. Flatulent colic. Obstructed flatus. Protrusion of inguinal hernia from flatulence.

Stool.—Hard, knotty. Constipation with ineffectual urging, he passes offensive flatus only.

Anus.—Burning and sticking in. Burning hemorrhoids. Oozing of a sticky, odorless moisture from perinæum.

Urine.—Intense urging to urinate with increased discharge. Involuntary discharge of offensive urine.

Menses.—Too early. Leucorrhœa staining the linen yellow.

Respiration.—Wheezing, with rattling in chest. Tightness of chest early in morning, and after eating.

Cough.—Suffocative, hoarse, excited by rawness and dryness in larynx and trachea. In evening after falling to sleep. Dry at night, but by day, with a gray-greenish sometimes purulent expectoration, of an offensive, somewhat sour taste.

Larynx, etc.—Loss of voice at night. Hoarseness in early morning. Constriction of.

Neck.—Painful swelling and induration of cervical and parotid glands.

Chest.—Ulcerative pain in, with suppuration of lungs. Cold feeling in. Sticking and constriction in. Rattling in. Palpitation. Erysipelatous inflammation of breasts of nursing women. Hard, painful nodes in female mammæ.

Back.—Stitches in lumbar region when breathing deeply.

Upper Extremities.—Much moisture in axillæ. Indurated axillary glands. Burrowing pains in bones of arms. Gouty stiffness of finger joints.

Lower Extremities.—Tension in popliteal space and groin. Feet and toes turn under easily. Frostbites on feet and toes, with burning pains as tho' inflamed.

Generalities.—Numbness of all limbs. Gouty stiffness in joints. The joints are weak and snap easily. Parts are easily sprained. Burning pains. Very sensitive to dry, cold, open air.

Glands.—Inflamed, swelled and indurated.

Skin.—Erysipelatous swelling with burning pains. Itching of entire body, in morning while in bed.

Sleep.—Full of vivid fancies, with weeping, groaning and talking. Inability to go to sleep in evening, on acconnt of restlessness, anxiety and frightful visions.

Fever.—Pulse: Excited and accelerated, with throbbing in bloodvessels, mostly toward evening. Chill: Especially in afternoon, after eating and in evening. Shuddering every other day in evening, continuing while in bed. In evening, then sweat during sleep. Heat: Following every chill, mostly at night in bed. Sweat: After the heat, usually toward morning. During day, from slightest motion, even when eating. Nightsweat, offensive, debilitating, staining the linen yellow. Most profuse on thighs.

Allied Remedies.—Carb-v., Rhod., Thuj.

CARBO VEGETABILIS.

Mind.—Slow flow of ideas. Periodical weakness of memory. Full of unnatural voluptuous fancies. Easily aroused to anger and vehemence. Anxiety and restlessness in evening. Attacks of anxious despondency, amounting to despair, in evening. Fear of ghosts at night.

Vertigo.—When moving head.

Head.—Pressive ache now here now there, with lachrymation and painful eyes when moved. Violent congestion to. Headache from overheating. Heavy. Tight, crampy feeling in brain. Draw-pain extending from nape forwards, with qualmishness. Thrusts and stitches in. Worse: Afternoon; after eating.

External Head.—Tearing, especially on occiput and forehead. Very painfully sensitive to pressure, i. e., of hat, etc. Pressive burning, tearing, especially in muscles of occiput, nape and forehead. Sense of contraction in integuments. Hair falls (after severe illness or abuse of Mercury), with violent itching. Takes cold in, especially after it has been hot and sweating. Worse: Early on awaking; evening, becoming warm in bed; every chilling of; becoming heated; touch. Better: Uncovering; sitting quietly in a warm room.

Eyes.—Pain from eyestrain. Pressure and burning in. Hemorrhage from. Nightly purulent agglutination of. Myopia. Lachrymation.

Ears.—Heat and redness of concha every evening. Offensive discharge from. Deficient wax.

Nose.—Scurfy red tip. Continuous, violent nosebleed, especially early in evening, preceded and followed by a pale face. Crawling in, with coryza and hoarseness. Stopped in evening. Fluent coryza in evening. Sneezing.

Face.—Pale. Greenish-yellow. Swelled face and lips. Cracked lips. Drawing in cheeks.

Teeth.—Contractive or tearing ache excited by salty food. Persistently loose. Gums

are detached and retracted from about incisors. Gums bleed easily and frequently; scorbutus.

Mouth.—Aphthæ.

Throat.—Scraping and burning in. Sense of constriction in, impeding swallowing. Much mucus in, easily dislodged by hawking. Sore, on swallowing. Redness in, and in fauces.

Appetite, etc.—Either excessive hunger or thirst. Long-continued repugnance to fat food and meat. Craves coffee.

Taste.—Bitter, in mouth. Salty. Sour, in mouth after eating. Foods taste too salt.

Eructation.—Prolonged, of ingesta, especially of fat food. Retching.

Nausea.—In early morning. Vomits: Blood and bile; ingesta, in evening; mucus.

Stomach.—Spasm in, with a sense of burning pressure, much flatulence and great sensitiveness of pit. Cramps in, after loss of vital fluids, i. e., in childbed.

Hypochondriæ.—Sticking in ribs, especially in hepatic region. Bruised pain in, especially in hepatic region. Jaundice. Intolerance of tight clothes around.

Abdomen.—Heat, with great inflation and tenseness of, from flatus. Pinching below navel, moving from left to right side, with paralytic sensation in right thigh. Bellyache from riding. Sticking in.

Flatulence.—Extraordinary generation of flatus. Excessive discharge of foul smelling flatus. Flatulent colic.

Stool.—Thin, pale, mucus. Difficult, although soft, with violent urging and burning in anus. Constipation.

Anus.—Itching and burning in. Hæmorrhoids which burn and bleed with each stool. Excoriation and moisture on perineum.

Urine.—Red, dark. Frequent, anxious urging to urinate, day and night. Polyuria. Nocturnal enuresis.

Sexual Organs.—Too frequent pollutions. Itching, burning and soreness of pudendum. Varicose veins on pudendum.

Menses.—Of pale blood, too early and too profuse, preceded by spasmodic abdominal colic. Acrid leucorrhœa.

Respiration.—Short when walking. Oppression of chest with hydrothorax.

Cough.—In short fits and infrequent (4 to 5) daily attacks, as if excited by sulphur fumes or a crawling irritation in throat or larynx; dry in evening; in morning, with yellow-greenish or purulent, sometimes brownish bloody, rarely tenacious white mucus, or watery expectoration, of a foul, sour or salty taste and bad odor. Persistent in evening. Hemoptysis with burning in chest.

Larynx, etc.—Hoarseness, especially in early morning or evening, < by continued talking. Phthisis of larynx and trachea. Soreness and ulcerative pain in, and in trachea. Voice fails when talking. Aphonia at night.

Neck.—Tearing in muscles of, and in nape. Ulcerative pain in thyroid gland.

Chest.—Constriction. Rawness in. Whistling and rattling of mucus in. Pressure. Burning and painful soreness in. Brownish spots on. Hydrothorax. Pulmonary phthisis Inflammation of female mammæ. Palpitation.

Back.—Rheumatic tearing in. Stitches in.

Upper Extremities.—Tearing in forearms and wrists. Burning heat in hands. Paralytic weakness of fingers when grasping anything.

Lower Extremities.—Paralytic tearing in legs. Sweaty feet. Red, swollen toes with sticking pains as tho' frozen.

Generalities.—Asleep sensation in limbs. Bruised pain in limbs, in early morning after rising from bed. Paralytic tearing in limbs with flatulent symptoms. Burning pains in limbs, bones and ulcers. After effects of over-lifting or taking cold. Consequences of loss of vital fluids or abuse of China. Sense of great general physical relaxation, towards noon. Weariness on beginning to move. Worse: Motion; walking in open air. Damp cold or cold frosty weather. Better: In a warm room.

Skin.—General itching on becoming warm

in bed in evening. Burning in many spots on. Easily bleeding and offensive ulcers with burning pain and biting, ichorous pus.

Sleep.—Day sleepiness, especially in A. M., disappearing during motion. Late falling to sleep and nightly sleeplessness on account of physical restlessness.

Fever.—Pulse: Weak and languid, often imperceptible. Intermittent. Irregular, at times greatly accelerated, then again, as if entirely suppressed. Chill: And shivering, mostly in evening, usually with thirst, sometimes on left side only. Extraordinary weariness during. With icy coldness of body. Heat: After the chill, but also in evening or atnight in bed, with many concomitants. Attacks of flying, burning heat in evening, usually without thirst. Sweat: Profuse, mostly offensive or sour smelling. Great inclination to, even while eating. Night-sweat. Sour smelling in early morning. Cold, on face.

Allied Remedies.—Arg-n., Ars., Bry., Carb-a., CHIN., Dulc., Ferr., Ign., Ip., Kali-c., Lach., MERC., Nat-m., Nat-s., Nit-ac., Nux-v., Op., Petr., Puls., Rhod., Sep., Sul., Verat-a.

CAUSTICUM.

Mind.—Sorrowful thoughts with weeping, day and night. Timorous anxiety and apprehension. Fear at night. Peevish, quarrelsome and self-opinionated.

Vertigo.—Dizzy, with weak feeling in head.

Head.—Congestion to, with roaring in head and ears. Loose feeling in brain. Feeling of an empty space between frontal bone and brain. Stitches in vertex and both temples. Tensive ache externally as well as internally, most in forehead and temples. Worse: Evening; early, on awaking; walking in cold, open air; lying on back; sitting upright; reading. Better: Lying in bed; warmth; opening eyes.

External Head.—Itching sticking in many parts of. Numbness on occiput. Tensive tearing in muscles especially of sides and behind ears. Tension and tightness of skin of. Worse: Drafts; dry or open air; cold wind; scratching; rubbing. Better: In a warm bed or room; moist weather; washing.

Eyes.—Inflamed eyes and lids. Ulceration of. Pressure, as of sand in. Warts in brows. Sees a dark web suspended before. Incipient cataract and amaurosis.

Ears.—Earache as tho' everything would be forced out. Painful swelling of external. Roaring and humming in head, and before ears.

Nose.—Eruption on tip. Warts on. Continued, stuffed coryza and obstruction of both nostrils. Coryza, dry at night, fluent in daytime.

Face.—Yellow, especially on temples. Eruption on, and on cheeks. Unilateral facial paralysis. Convulsive sensations in lips. Tension and tearing in lower jaw and chin. Trismus.

Teeth.—Tearing in, and through upper and lower jaw. Elevated in their sockets, and very painful. Sticking in. Suppurating gums and dental fistula.

Mouth.—Dry. Much mucus in, and in pharynx. Inclination to swallow, with a swollen feeling in throat. A sense of coldness rising in throat. Roughness of throat. Soreness and burning in fauces. Voiceless, from paralysis of vocal organs. Difficult speech.

Appetite.—Averse to sweet things. Thirst: For cold drinks; intense, with a small appetite.

Taste.—Unctious, greasy, in mouth.

Eructation.—Empty. Abortive, with retching.

Nausea, etc.—Qualmishness during and after eating. Vomits sour water followed by sour eructations.

Stomach.—Pain, with heat of head and shivering over entire body, > lying. Spasm of. Pressure, after eating bread.

Hypochondriæ.—Stitches in liver. Clothes are oppressive about.

Abdomen.—Painful distension of. Protuberant, hard belly in children. Painfully swollen navel.

Stool.—Too slender in form. Painful, ineffectual urging to, with anxiety and a red face. Anxiety after. Chronic constipation.

Anus.—Itching. Hemorrhoids. Rectal fistula.

Urine.—Thirst with frequent scanty micturition. Involuntary urination: When coughing, sneezing and walking; day and night.

Sexual Organs.—Aversion to coitus in women.

Menses.—Too late, but profuse, during which the blood passes in coagula. First menses are delayed at puberty. Profuse leucorrhea.

Respiration.—Spasmodic tightness of chest. Intolerance of tight clothes about chest, they obstruct the breath.

Cough.—Incessant, short, hollow, from crawling, tickling and much mucus in throat; mostly dry by day; loosening an acrid, greasy tasting mucus by night, which must be swallowed; > by cold drinks. Pain in hip while coughing. With sore pain in chest.

Larynx, etc.—Chronic hoarseness with a low, muffled voice. Aphonia from weakness of laryngeal muscles. Painful soreness in, and in trachea when not swallowing. Laryngeal phthisis.

Neck.—Goitre-like swelling of glands of. Moist herpes on. Stiffness and tension in nape, and down the back.

Chest.—Rattling. Burning, sticking and soreness in. Pressure in. Oppression at heart with low spirits. Stitches about heart. Palpitation.

Back.—Painful stiffness of, especially when rising from sitting.

Upper Extremities.—Drawing and tearing in arms and hands. Sense of fulness in hand when grasping anything tightly. Shortening and induration of tendons of fingers.

Lower Extremities.—Pain in the hips as if luxated. Dislocative pain in the hip joint when stepping. Tension in knee and ankle joints. Marbled skin on legs. Children have an unsteady gait and fall easily. Shortening of muscles of and tension in instep. Swollen feet.

Generalities.—Gouty and rheumatic tearing in limbs, > in bed and from warmth. Contraction of flexor muscles. Distortion and paralysis of limbs. Paralytic, tremulous weakness of limbs when not in bed. Insufferable restlessness thro' entire body in evening. Epileptic spasms. Chorea. Sensitive to drafts and cold. The symptoms are intensified in evening, in open air and after drinking coffee. The primary action appears later, and the secondary symptons continue relatively longer, than in other antipsoric remedies.

Skin.—True itch. Moist tetter. Excoriated, in children. Painful varicosities.

Sleep.—Somnolency in daytime. Nightly sleeplessness with anxiety, dry heat and frequent starting up. Frequent waking on account of cough. Anxious dreams.

Fever.—Pulse: Somewhat excited toward evening only, from ebullition of blood. Chill: And chilliness predominate, often with coldness of entire left side of body. Great internal; quickly followed by sweat, without previous heat. Strong, internal, about midnight. Shuddering, spreading from face. Heat: In evening from six to eight o'clock. Overrunning body, then chill. Sweat: Profuse, when walking in open air. Sour smelling nightsweat. In early morning, about four o'clock.

Allied Remedies.—Asaf., Bell., Bry., Calc-c., Clem., Coccl., Coloc., Cupr., Gel., Graph., Hep., Ign., Kali-bi., Kre., LACH., Lyc., NAT-C., (NIT-AC.), Nux-v., Phos., Plat., (PLB.), Puls., Rhod., Rhus-t., SEP., Sil., SUL., (SUL-AC.).

CHAMOMILLA.

Mind.—Stupidity. Day dreams. Mental obtuseness. Great, anxious excitability, weeping, howling and tossing about. Great anxiety at heart. Impatience. Peevishness, with incessant screaming and howling. Bad effects of anger, with vehemence and wrath: Glowing heat of face; hot sweat on head; spasms; fainting attacks with vertigo; qualmishness, or paralysis of legs. Aversion to music.

Vertigo.—On raising up.

Head.—Tearing in one side, or in forehead and temple, extending into jaws, waking one from sleep about midnight. Congestion to, with throbbing therein, more on one side. Heavy. Aches from suppressed sweat. Hot, sticky sweat on scalp and over forehead. Worse: Night; open air, especially in the wind. Better: Warm applications; walking about in room; after rising.

External Head.—Wags it to and fro. Very sensitive to fresh air, wind and touch. Erysipelatous swelling, mostly one sided, of face, temples and head, with unbearable pain. Takes cold in, especially when sweating. Worse: Night; open air; wind; scratching. Better: Warm wraps; gentle motion in a warm room.

Eyes.—Burning heat in. Inflammation of, until they bleed, and of lower lids, with swelling of latter. Distorted, with twitching lids. Spasmodic closure of lids. Aversion to bright light.

Ears.—Earache, with sticking and tearing pains. Sensitive hearing.

Nose.—Nose-bleed. Ulcerated nostrils. Most extreme acuteness of smell. Fluent coryza.

Face.—Red, puffy. Heat of; also with coldness of body. Swelling of one cheek. Redness of one cheek, paleness of the other. Twitching facial muscles and lips. Wrinkling of forehead. Deep cracks in lower lip.

Teeth.—Unendurable, drawing ache at night, with thirst and hot, red, swollen cheeks. Toothache < from warm drinks, especially coffee. Burning and swelling of gums during toothache. Spasms in children suffering with symptoms of the teeth.

Mouth.—Foul breath. Sore throat with swollen parotids. Frothing at. Inflammation of soft palate and tonsils. Inability to swallow solid food when lying, also in general. Food lodges in throat pit. Dryness in throat. Red, fissured tongue. Convulsive motions of tongue.

Appetite, etc.—Anorexia and repugnance to food. Great thirst for cold water.

Taste.—Putrid or bitter, in mouth.

Eructations.—Sour, which intensify the symptoms. Bitter.

Nausea, etc.—Great qualmishness. Inclination to vomit after drinking coffee. Vomiting: Of bile; sour, of mucus or drink.

Stomach.—Violent pressure, as from a stone in, after every meal. Spasm of, after anger. Fulness in pit of, with anxiety.

Hypochondriæ.—Inflation of. Inflammation of liver.

Abdomen.—Cutting, burning and tearing in upper, with shortness of breath. Cramps in. Painful distension of, with inflamed intestines.

Flatulence.—Colic from, especially at night.

Stool.—Diarrhœa: At night, with frequent but small stools; greenish, hacked, or curdled; undigested; mucus; with bellyache and inflation of abdomen.

Urine.—Hot. Anxious urging to urinate.

Sexual Organs.—Labor-like pains in uterus. Anxiety and restlessness, with feeble labor pains during parturition.

Menses.—Uterine hemorrhage, of bad smelling clots. Discharge of blood between menses. Acrid leucorrhœa.

Respiration.—Rapid, rattling. Short. Tightness of chest, in region of throat pit.

Cough.—Dry, after catching cold (in children in winter). Dull, suffocative, from, tickling in chest, throat, larynx and throat-pit; dry at night, during sleep; during day, with expectoration of a scanty, tenacious mucus of a bitter or foul taste.

Larynx.—Sticking, burning in. Whistling and wheezing in trachea. Hoarseness.

Neck.—Inflammatory swelling and induration of cervical glands.

Chest.—Burning stinging pain and bursting feeling in. Spasm of. Excoriated nipples. Scirrhous induration and swelling of mammæ. Pus and cheesy milk in mammæ. Tickling and stinging pain in throat pit. Palpitation.

Upper Extremities.—Arms go to sleep easily when grasping anything tightly. Convulsions of arms with clenched thumbs. Cold sweat on palms.

Generalities.—Nightly paralytic, tearing pains with numb feeling in limbs. Convulsive twitches in limbs. Extremely sensitive to cool air and great aversion to wind. Oversensitive to pain, it seems unendurable and drives him to despair. Hyperesthesia of all the senses (especially also after coffee or narcotic palliatives). Pains are most intense at night and are accompanied by heat and thirst. When the pain begins he quickly sinks down from prostration. Violent effects of anger, particularly if he eats or drinks at that time. Opisthotonos. Emaciation. The child always desires to be carried.

Glands.—Inflammatory swelling of.

Skin.—Yellow, over entire body. Unhealthy. Excoriated, in children. Eruption with itching at night.

Sleep.—Somnolency with short breath, starting and groaning. Nightly sleeplessness with visions and anxiety. Crying out, starting up, tossing about and weeping during sleep. Yawning and stretching.

Fever.—Pulse: Small, but tense and accelerated; often very irregular and for a time weak. Chill: And shuddering usually only of single parts, with heat of others. Shivering with internal heat. And coldness of entire body, with burning heat of face and hot breath. Alternate shivering and coldness of some, with heat of other parts. Of posterior half, with heat of the other half of the body, or the reverse. Shivering whenever he uncovers, and in cold air. Heat: Mingled with shuddering, mostly with one red and one pale cheek. Anxious, with sweat on face and hairy scalp. Long-continued, with intense thirst and frequent staiting up in sleep. Burning, with sour sweat and furious delirium, most intense at night. Sweat: In sleep, most profuse on head, mostly sour; and smarting the skin. Recession of, consequently entirely wanting. Clammy.

Allied Remedies.—ACO., Alum., Ap., Ars., Bell., Bor., Caps., Chin., Cina, COCCL., Coff., Coloc., HEP., IGN., Ip., Kre., Lyc., MAG-C., NUX-V., Petr., PULS., Rhe., Rhus-t., Stram., Sul., Valer.

CHELIDONIUM.

Mind.—Depression and sadness, even to weeping. Restlessness and solicitude concerning the present and future.

Head.—Coldness in occiput, rising from neck. Headache as if pressed asunder. Crawling in, and upon. Milk crust on. Worse: Motion. Better: Rest.

Eyes.—Downward pressure on upper lids. Inflammatory redness and nightly purulent agglutination of. Contracted pupils. Albugo. Opacity of cornea. Lachrymal fistula.

Ears.—Sensation of wind streaming from. Hearing vanishes when coughing.

Nose.—Stuffed coryza with stoppage of one nostril.

Face.—Red, without heat. Tension and drawing in zygoma. Itching over entire face and forehead. Herpes, especially on chin.

Throat.—Choking in, as after swallowing too large a morsel; < breathing. Difficult swallowing, as from pressure of larynx on œsophagus.

Appetite, etc.—Much thirst for milk, which is especially beneficial. Bad effects of clabber.

Eructation.—Tasting of juniper berries.

Qualmishness.—Rising from stomach, with a sensation of warmth therein, and over entire body.