Materia Medica A

Region:

• Nerves.
• Nutrition.
• Veins.

Worse:

• Cold air.
• Wet.
• Checked secretions.
• Night.
• Fogs.

Better:

• Loose stool (Nat-s. Zin.).
• Motion.

Numb, weak, tremulous and paretic. Can't hold up head. Exudations, into pleura, joints, from navel, etc. True metastases; receding gout, etc. Alternations; piles with rheumatism (Coll. Sabi.). Rheumatism, after diarrhœa. Emaciation; ascending; of legs. .................... Cross, irritable children. Pale hollow eyed, old face. Distended veins; on forehead. Nosebleed; of youths. Vomits much offensive fluid. Stomach floats in water (Buf.). Bloated abdomen. Pains in left ovary. Nightly backache. Weak joints; can't hold up head. Face cold, dry and wrinkled. Cold, prickling, numb fingers and toes. Flabby skin. Protruding piles; burn on touch.

Related: Chin. Led.

Region:

• MIND: Brain.
• NERVES: Medulla. Sympathetic. Vagus. Respiratory centre.
• HEART: Arterial. Circulation.
• Viscera: Larynx. Chest. Abdomen.
• Joints.

Worse:

• Violent emotions: FRIGHT. SHOCK. Vexation.
• Sleeping in sun.
• Chilled by: COLD, dry winds. While sweating.
• Pressure and touch.
• Noise.
• Light.
• Dentition.
• During menses.
• Night; in bed, P.M. lying on side.

Better:

• Open air.
• Repose.
• Warm sweat.

Robust habit. Sudden, violently acute, painful effects, a big storm that soon blows over. Tension. Congestion; often apoplectic. Excited nervous and vascular systems. Inflammation. Congestion to head and chest: acute. Inflammation: internal; rheumatic. Bright red hæmorrhage (Bell.). Acute senses. Sticking, tearing pains. Parts feel numb, big, burn, tingle, prickle or crawl; remain sore or numb after the pains. Neuralgia. Crepitation. Painfully sore externally, with internal heaviness. Collapse. .................... TERROR. ANXIETY. AGONIZING FEAR; of death, crowds, etc. RESTLESS**, excited, nervous, feverish, impatient and anxious.** Beside himself; frantic from intensity of the pain; WITH FEAR; screams, moans, gnaw the fist, bites the nails (Ars.), wants to die. Delirium. Convulsions. Forebodings; predicts time of death. Sensitive. Music saddens. Anxiety, congestion and pain. Head heavy. As of a hot band about head, or boiling heat in brain. Hair seems on end. Violent squeezing or bursting, in forehead or eyes; crackling in, throbs in l. forehead (r. Ant-t. Bell. Ign.); aches, with more urine; burning in. Shooting in eyeballs. Numb nose; with epistaxis (Bell. Med.). Nose runs hot water. Coryza. ANXIOUS LOOK (Spo.). Eyes glitter; stare; bleared; foreign bodies in. Hot, red cheeks. Face: ghastly look; alternately red and pale; one cheek red and hot, other pale and cold. Face pales on rising. Faintness. Toothache. Throbbing in teeth and in head. Everything tastes bitter. Water has a bad taste. Chokes on swallowing. BURNING THIRST; craves acids, beer; < after ices. Appetite: milk agrees. Projectile vomiting (Ver-v.). Violent bilious or bloody vomitus. Stools of pure blood; slimy, grass green, or white; < hot days and cold nights (Dul. Merc-c.). Dysentery. Itching, sticking at anus. Retained, scanty, red or bloody urine. Agonizing dysuria. Cystitis. Urethral chill. Orchitis. Suddenly suppressed menses. Respiration short; during sleep; anxious; hard; sits erect. Dry, hoarse, painful cough, or short, barking, ringing, or whistling cough, < from every inspiration. Grasps larynx; < night or drinking. Laryngitis. Croup with fever. Violent rushes of blood to chest. Pneumonia. Stitches in chest. Oppression of left chest. Pleurisy. Heart feels swelled. Carditis. Complaints of heart worse from sitting erect. Palpitation, anxious; with pain down l. arm. Red finger-tips. Powerless legs. Red, shining swelling. DRY, HOT SKIN, or as if ice water on it. Miliary eruptions. Sleepless and nervous. Pulse fast, bounding, shaking, forcible and tumultuous or wiry. Pulse very irritable. Arterial tension (Ver-v.). CHILL; in waves; alternates with heat. HIGH FEVER. Dry, burning heat; in eyelids; nose, mouth, throat, lungs; on palms; must uncover. Sweat: on uncovered parts; wants covers; drenching. Back and sacrum feel bruised. Remote effects of fright (OP.). Cries out and grasps genitals. Complementary: Sul.

Related: Bell. Cham. Cof.

(Cimicifuga Racemosa)

Region:

• Mind.
• Occiput.
• Vertex.
• Nape.
• NERVES AND MUSCLES: Cerebro-spinal. Eyesballs. Ovario-uterine. Heart.
• FEMALES.
• Joints.
• Left side; ovary, chest, etc.
• Front of thighs.

Worse:

• Menstruation; suppressed.
• During labor.
• Emotions.
• Alcohol.
• Night.
• Air: Damp. Cold. Wind. Drafts.
• Change of weather.
• Heat and cold.
• Sitting.
• Puberty and climaxis.

Better:

• Warm wraps.
• Open air.
• Pressure.
• Continued motion.
• Grasping things.
• Eating.

A depressing irritant, causing exhaustion and low spirits, combined with oversensitiveness, < during pain (Nux-v.). Plumpness. Irregular, changeful or alternating symptom groups; utero- rheumatic (Caul.), etc. Violent pains; achings; shooting, here and there; shock-like, with cries, faints, etc.; up nape, about thorax, ovary to ovary (Arn.); lumbar spine, etc.; or alternating with other states. Myalgia. Ovaralgia. Lumbago. Bruised, sore or heavy, aching muscles; behing eyeballs, uterus, neck; with a general sick feeling. Grippe. Variola. Trmbling, twitching; of part lain on, tongue, fingers, etc. Chorea; cardiac. Compressive pain; temples, feet, etc. .................... Insanity before menses. Melancholy. Agitation. Alternate mental and physical effects. Nervous, fidgety, excitable and jerky. Annoyances drive her crazy. Depressed and talkative, with constant change of subject. Suspicious. Gloomy forebodings; of death; insanity, etc. Sees rats. Sees various colors and forms. Mania; alcoholic, puerperal, etc. Deathly fear, of rats, etc.; agitated. Weak will. Waving in brain (Glo.). Head retracted. Vertex; as if to fly off; as of a cold draft or heat on. Occiput; like a blow or pressive pain, ascends to eyes (l). Eyeballs ache; feel big. Sees red flashes, with black borders. Tinnitus; violent with deafness. Pale, hot face. Thick saliva. Mucus on teeth, or coppery mucus hawked up. Burning in throat. Nausea in A.M.; of pregnancy or alcoholism; in bowels; < pressure on spine. Vomits green; holds head and groans. Profuse, clear urine; weakening; with yellow sand. Menses irregular in time and amount; more flow more pain. Slow labor with nervous shivers. Uterine atony (Alet.). After-pains. Sore and tender along track of pains. Nervous; urination, shuddering, cough, etc. Delicate, sensitive women. Spasms of cerebro-spinal fever. Thyroid aches before menses. Incessant, dry night cough; < speaking. Sharp stitches in l. chest. Pleurodynia. Left inframammary pain. Heart sore; swelled; needle-like pains; backward from or to l. arm. Muscles fatigue. Neckache. Throws head back. Arms numb, cramp down; l. seems bound to side. Irritable, sensitive spine; < lying on it. Stiff, contracted neck, back (Agar.) or Tendo Achilles. Pain at angle of l. scapula (Chen.). Heavy, pulsative lumbar pain, through hips and down thighs. Cramps in limbs; in calves. Alternate mental and rheumatic symptoms. Itching soles. Sleepless or dizzy, drunken sleep; with arms over head or yawning. Pulse weak, irregular; drops every 3rd or 4th. beat. Chilly females. Cold sweat on hands and feet.

Related: Bap. Caul. Gel. Ign. Pul.

Region:

• Joints: Wrist. Small.

Worse:

• Change of weather.
• Slight exertion.
• Cold.
• Night.
• Touch.

Old age. Tingling. Weakness. .................... Joints swell; can not move. Paralytic weakness of affected parts. Hypersensitive to cold. Complementary: Caul. Colo. Sabi. Stic. Viol.

Region:

• HEART.
• Spine.
• Epigastrium.
• Kidneys.
• Skin.

Worse:

• Cold.
• Lying.

Better:

• Exertion.

Wandering pains. .................... Apprehension. Vertigo, < when in motion; with palpitation. Aching occiput. Tight scalp. Tongue as if scalded. Thirstless. Faint in epigastrium, with vertigo. Bowels as if to break; < bending. Urging to urinate. Albuminuria. Dropsy. Dyspnœa; < touching back. Dry, tickling cough; from heart. Heart weak, fatty, arrhythmic. Spine and nape stiff; with a tired ache. Vesicles on skin. Sleepless; from rambling thoughts.

Related: Buf.

Region:

• Veins: Liver. Naso-pharynx. ABDOMEN (R). RECTUM.
• Mucus membranes: Naso-pharynx.
• Occiput.
• Sacro-iliac region.

Worse:

• Morning, on waking.
• After stool.
• Lying.
• Stooping.
• Urinating.
• Walking.

Better:

• COOL: Open air. Bathing.
• Bleeding (piles).
• Kneeling.
• Continued exertion.

Reflex rectal symptoms. Rectum: painful constriction; as of a knife sawing up and down. HOT, DRY, STIFF, ROUGH or full feeling internally; throat, abdomen, anus, etc. Purple puffy parts. Venosity. Pains, sticking; like hot lightning. .................... Irritable. Crushing in occiput. Nose sensitive to cool inspired air; it burns. Congestive catarrh. Follicular pharyngitis. Throbs, deep in abdomen. Stool, hard, dry; of several colors. RECTUM: sore, as of a burr or sticking pains long after stool; as of a bug crawling from anus (Sul.). Piles, purple, painful, external; with BACKACHE (Nux-v.), chest pains, etc. Laming, dull, lumbar pain; small of back gives out; repeated efforts at rising; < walking. Lumbar region or back: as if to break. Bruised pain in sacrum and hips. Paralytic heaviness: of arms, spine, feet. Complementary: Carbo-v. Lach. Mur-ac.

Related: Alo. Collin. Pul.

Region:

• BRAIN.
• Nerves.
• Digestion.
• Occiput.
• Neck.
• Glands.
• Liver.

Worse:

• MILK.
• Hot weather.
• Dentition.
• Frequent eating.
• Over-exertion.

Violent onset, profound exhaustion and lack of reaction, even speechless; as in cholera infantum, convulsions, etc. Can't stand or hold head up. Weak, nervous and prostrated; from over-work. Can't fix attention. Parts feel screwed together. Lancinating pains. Distress in occiput and nape. Violent convulsions. .................... Weepy; < as disease progresses. Dizzy and drowsy (Gel.). Squeezing headache, > passing flatus. Eyes turn down. Face sunken. Deathly aspect; blue white palor about lips. White linea nasalis. Tongue feels too long. Nibbling appetite. Regurgitates food long after eating (Kre.). Violent sudden vomiting of milk. DEATHLY NAUSEA. VOMITS LARGE, HARD CURDS, THEN LIMPNESS AND DEEP SLEEP. Retching. Digestion ceases from brain exhaustion. Stomach seems turned upside down. Bubbling at navel. Yellow-green, slimy diarrhœa. Watery menses. Lymphatics swelled, like a string of beads. Eruptions that itch from heat. Ecchymoses. Cool, clammy skin. Heat without thirst. Sweat (cold) with aversion to uncovering. Complementary: Calc-c.

Related: Ant-c. Cic.

Region:

• SPINAL AXIS: OCCIPUT. NERVES. Lumbar region.
• Peristalsis.
• Heart.
• Circulation.
• Respiration.
• Chest.

Worse:

• Air: COLD. FREEZING. OPEN. Stormy.
• Exhaustion: Mental. Coition. Debauchery.
• Alcohol.
• Pressure.
• Touch.
• Morning.
• During menses.

Better:

• Gentle motion.

Gradual onset**. Many symptoms** (Tub.). IRREGULAR, ANGULAR, UNCERTAIN AND EXAGGERATED MOTIONS (Ign.); he reaches too far, staggers or steps too high, drops things, etc. TREMBLING, TWITCHING, JERKING or fibrillar spasm; here and there; < EYELIDS or tongue. Shuddering. Nervous and restless. Chorea. As of cold needles, a cold drop or a weight on parts. Painful twitching, then parts stiff and cold. .................... Hilarious or dull and dizzy; as if drunk. Turns head to and fro. Headache, > after stool or urine. Oscillating eyeballs. Gum in canthi. Musca volitantes. Angle of mouth droops. As of a lump in epigastrium. Rumbling and fermenting in bowels. Hot flatus or semen; cold urine. Isolated coughing attacks, then sneezing; as if from spine; easy expectoration of flocculi or balls of mucus. Indistinct, jerky speech. Palpitation during coition; depressed afterward. Premature ejaculation. Pressure or burning sticking from heart to left scapula. Angina pectoris, has excessive pain only. Metastases from suppressed milk. Single vertebra sensitive to heat. Spine sensitive, > pressure or touch; shooting, burning along; seems short (Sul.), < stooping; stiff. Restless arms. BURNING-ITCHING (Ap.), < IN SKIN; AS IF FROZEN; changing place on scratching. Skin pains when cold. Chilblains. Yawning; before pains or spasms; as a concomitant. Chills or sweats easily. Sweats on alternate sides. Night sweats. Itching, over affected part. Cold buttocks. Antidotes: Coff. Pul. Complementary: Calc-c.

Related: Phys. Tub.

Region:

• SEXUAL ORGANS.
• MIND.
• Nerves.
• Eyes.

Worse:

• VENERY.
• Sprains.

IMPOTENCY AND PREMATURE OLD AGE. Jaded rakes. .................... Distraction. BAD MEMORY. Sad and despairing; repeats that he will soon die. Cold, relaxed genitals. Spermatorrhœa. Gnawing-itching; < eyes. Agalactia.

Related: Old. Pho-ac.

Region:

• BLOOD.
• THROAT.
• Skin.
• Mind.

Worse:

• Suppressions.
• Raising up.
• Sight of food.

Better:

• Hot drinks.

Aching. Rapid prostration advancing MALIGNANCY AND STUPOR. Fetor and LIVIDITY. Sepsis. Acridity. Thinness. .................... Dullness. Sighing. Faint on raising up, or vertigo < lying. Bloody, nasal discharge. Face and throat dark and swelled. Sordes on teeth. Dry, foul fauces. Deep ulcers stud tonsils, < left, with loose pultaceous material. Lacunar tonsilitis. Irritative itching of posterior pharynx. Diphtheria. Eruptions in dark, sparse patches; tardy; return slowly after pressure. Mottled skin. Scarlatina maligna; suppressed. Petechiæ. Crawling over body. Adynamic fever, with weak heart. Cold sweat.

Related: Aru-t. Bap. Lac-c.

Region:

• Female organs (R).
• Blood.

Worse:

• Loss of fluids.

Better:

• Passing flatus.
• Bending backward.

Debility. Always tired. Heaviness of parts. Uterine reflexes. Hæmorrhage. Anæmia. .................... Frothy saliva. Abdominal colic. Terrible pain during stool. Constipation. Early, profuse menses. Tendency to abortion.

Related: Chin. Helo. Tril.

(Cepa Vulgaris)

Region:

• MUCOUS MEMBRANES: NOSE. EYES. Larynx. Bowels.
• Nerves.
• Left to right.

Worse:

• WARM ROOM.
• Wet feet.
• Singing.
• Damp.
• N.E. Winds.
• Spring.

Better:

• Cool, open air.
• Bathing.
• Motion.

Acute colds, catarrhs or neuralgias. Shooting pains; as fine as a thread. .................... Forehead aches; into eyes and face; > free coryza or menses. Watery eyes, < coughing; wants to rub them (Scil.). FREQUENT, VIOLENT SNEEZING, CORYZA; ACRID, FLUENT; with burning, smarting. Dripping nose or from uvula. Sensitive to odors. Raw throat or larynx. Flatulence; noisy; foul; painful. Copious urine. Incessant, hacking, tickling cough; holds it back; as if to tear or split larynx; must grasp it. Painful talking. Hoarseness. Senile bronchitis. Neuralgia of stump. Galled feet. Complementary: Pho.

Related: Euphr. Gel. Kali-io.

Region:

• ABDOMINAL VEINS: RECTUM. Liver. Colon. Pelvis.
• Lumbar region.
• Head.
• Female organs.

Worse:

• HEAT; damp.
• Summer.
• Early A.M. (in bed).
• After dysentery.
• Stepping hard.
• Evening.

Better:

• Cool, open air.
• Cold applications.

Relaxation and VENOUS CONGESTION, < abdomen. Parts seem full. HEAVY DRAGGING, as of a load. Downward sensation. Drawing. Gelatinous secretions: post-nasal, stool, etc. .................... Mental effects, < cloudy weather (Pho.) or constipation. Heavy pressure on vertex. Head, alternating with abdominal, or lumbar symptoms; > closing eyes. Pain from navel to rectum. Heavy hypogastrium; rectum. Prolapsus recti. A plug seems wedged in pelvis. Rumbling, gurgling in bowels, sudden urging, SENSE OF INSECURITY, then hurriedly passes a gushing, watery stool (Kali-bi.). Diarrhœa; with rectal pain. ANUS WEAK; oozes mucus. Stool escapes with flatus (Old.) or when urinating; mushy; solid stool passes unnoticed; urging to, passes flatus only; lumpy; gelatinous. Piles, prolapsing; like a bunch of grapes; > cold bathing. Internal heat; not stool, flatus, urine, etc. Burning in anus, rectum, piles, etc. Sexual erethism (in children). Heavy, congested uterus. Complementary: Sul.

Related: Lil-t. Pod. Sep. Sul.

Region:

• SPINAL CORD, lumbar.
• Abdomen, left.
• RECTUM.
• Lower limbs.
• Mucus membranes.
• Skin.

Worse:

• WARMTH; ROOM, bed.
• Foods: Artificial. Potatoes.
• Speaking.
• Dry weather.
• Early on awaking.
• Sitting.
• After menses.

Better:

• Evening.
• Open air.
• Moderate: Exertion. Temperature.

Thin, inactive; inclines to lie down. Paretic effects. Talking is exhausting. Exhaustion after menses. DRYNESS; of mucous surfaces, eyes, throat, rectum, etc., or irritability and relaxation. Scanty, thick, acrid discharges (Hyds.). Mucus discharges, profuse: before menses, leucorrhœa runs to feet; expectoration. Induration. Chronicity. .................... Illusions of being larger, numb, smooth, heavy, time passing too slowly, etc. Hasty, but slow of execution, hence mistakes in speaking, writing, etc. Peevish. Depressive mental states. Depressed, on awaking. Timorous; fears his own impulses; the sight of knives; loss of reason, etc. Bad memory. Vertigo, < talking. Violent stitches in brain. Dry, falling hair. Weak eyelids. Double squint; < teething. Inflamed, burning eyes. Hot, red ear. Dusky wrinkled, old look. As of white of egg or a cobweb on face. Teeth feel long; pain extends to other parts (Kali-bi.). Twitching low jaw (Gel.). Uvula hangs down. Throat feels full of sticks or constricted. Craves coarse foods (Calc-c.). Big bellied children. Pains from rectum to ankle. Inactive rectum and bladder; strains to pass a soft stool; hard ones cause severe cutting. Stools of small balls, hard knots or bright clots of blood. Must strain at stool to urinate; slow flow. Tickling in sexual organs; increased desire. Profuse leucorrhœa. Constant, dry, hacking cough; interrupts breathing; with sneezing. Sudden loss of voice. As of a hot iron thrust through lower spine. Heavy lower limbs; staggering. Festination. Locomotor ataxia. Totters, if eyes are closed. Painful soles. Gnawing under nails. Bones feel squeezed. Dry, rough, cracked skin. Itching burning over seat of pain. Intolerable itching from heat of bed. Eczema. Chilliness; > open air. Heat, with itching. Antidotes: Cad-m. Jaborand.

Related: Bry. Plb.

Region:

• NERVES: Pneumogastric. Solar plexus. Spinal.
• Mind.
• Female organs.
• One side.
• Chest, left.

Worse:

• Slight causes: Presence of others. Music. Embarrassment. Agitation. Worry. Thinking of it.
• Old age.
• Evening.
• Warmth.
• Milk.

Dry, nervous, meager habit. Early senility. Weakness of upper part of body with trembling of lower parts. Worn out, yet overimpressionnable; slight things < the breathing, the heart, start the menses, etc. Symptoms suddenly change place; asleep, numb feeling (in spots), twitching, itching, trembling, ebullitions, etc. General pulsation. .................... Dreamy, flitting ideas or fixed disagreeable fancies. Slow grasp. Does not understand what she reads. Sad. Bashful. Vertigo; senile. Nosebleed, during menses. Coldness in abdomen. Confusion, in occiput; also sprained feeling in. Imaginations. Coldness of body with twitching. Asthma: dry; senile; < coition. Flatulence. Can't have others present when urinating (Nat-m.) or during stool; < during pregnancy. Itching labiæ. Spasmodic cough, then eructations. Bluish, white expectoration. As a lump in chest (l). Palpitation. Sweat on abdomen and thighs.

Related: Bar-c. Ign.

Region:

• HEART: Circulation. Blood.
• RESPIRATION.
• Lungs.
• Bronchiæ.
• Right side.

Worse:

• COLD: CLOUDY DAYS. DAMP. Locally**. Raw, open air**.
• Falling asleep.
• 3-4 A.M.
• DURING MENSES.
• Motion.

Better:

• PRESSURE.
• Eating.
• Lying on abdomen.

Low vitality. Lacks reaction. LIVID, WEAK AND DROWSY. Lies down. Collapse of nerves and heart. Averse to cold. Old age. Bruised, sore pain. Internal, raw burning. Acrid, hot, adherent secretions. Dark, thin hæmorrhage. Scorbutic states. Malignancy. .................... Active, but soon exhausted. Sad. Peevish. Mind vacant. Depressed, with weakened intellect. Heedless, fretting and unruly. Loss of memory; < vexation. Brain seems loose. Shocks through head, on biting. Violent headache; full, bursting in forehead. Floods of tears. Nose stopped at night, or bleeds, if hands or face are washed or on waking. Continuous urging to sneeze. Profuse, watery coryza. Catarrhs, starting in nose. Cracked, burning lips. Tender, bleeding gums. Loose or blunt teeth. Dark, acrid diarrhœa. Persistent erections. Menses with choleraic symptoms (Sil.); dark, lumpy flow, < night; then dyspnœa or weakness. Copious leucorrhœa. Increasing shortness of breath; it wakes him; > cool air (Carb-v.). Rattling in chest, but gets up little. Aphonia. WEAK HEART; causing stasis, dyspnœa, etc. Palpitation; with cold sweat and lachrymation. Numb r. foot (Sep.). Asleep feeling of part lain on. Ganglion. Bones ache as weather changes. Red or mottled skin. Coldness. Burning heat with thirst. Scarlatina.

Related: Ant-t. Carb-v. Glo. Lach. Mur-ac.

Region:

• MUCOUS MEMBRANES: CHEST. Gall-ducts.
• Liver.
• Blood.
• Female organs.
• Tips of fingers and toes.
• Between scapulæ.

Worse:

• Morning (head, chest).
• Afternoon (abdomen).
• Evening (skin, fever, limbs).
• Sprains (chronic).
• Periodically.

Better:

• Open air.
• Rapid motion.

Fat and puffy with thin limbs (Ant-c.). Irregular circulation; ebullitions, burnings or localized throbbings. Symptoms accompanied by cough or PROFUSE SECRETIONS. GLAIRY CATARRHS. Hæmorrhage. Tightness, as if too short; tendons, hamstrings, lumbar region, etc. Tired and sore. Festering pain. .................... Brain paralysis. A rough body obstructs upper nares. Acrid, watery coryza; closing one nostril. Anosmia. Slimy mouth and pharynx. Pulsation in tonsils. Tense, sprained feeling in groins; must walk bent. Scanty, hard, crumbling stools; changing color. Polyuria. Menses flow more at night. Albuminous leucorrhœa. Blood from anus or diarrhœa during menses. Prolapsus uteri. Cough, with salivation (Am-c.) or liver symptoms. Can't breathe for coughing. Noisy, rattling, tenacious mucus in chest. Bronchitis. Hoarseness, with burning in larynx. Pulsating, burning spots in chest. Swelled cervical glands. Sore sprain or cold between scapulæ. Lumbago. Bleeding eruptions. Desquamation between fingers. Contracting sciatica (l); < sitting > lying. Pain in or ulcer on heel. Chilly as often as he wakes. Senses of heat; > open air; alternating with chill.

Related: Caus.

Region:

• VASO-MOTOR NERVES: Circulation. HEAD. Heart.
• Respiration.

Worse:

• CLIMACTERIC.
• SLIGHT CAUSES.
• Emotions.
• Heat.
• Close room.

Flushing heats; then drenching (unilateral) sweat. Dilated cerebral vessels. Throbbings; < head. .................... Blood surges to head; with fiery red face. Easy blushing. Migraine, with pallor (Ars.). Aching, backward, along left floating ribs. Tumultuous palpitation. Constriction at heart. Full, soft pulse. Stretching and yawning, with hiccough.

Related: Glo. Lach.

Region:

• MIND.
• Nerves: Stomach. Skin. Palms.
• Muscles.
• Joints.

Worse:

• MENTAL EXERTION.
• Emotions: Anger, fright, care, etc.
• Stepping hard.
• Motion.
• Drafts.
• Open air.
• Cold.
• Long after eating.

Better:

• Eating.
• Hot bath.

Mental and physical LACK OF POWER. Tremulous; on slight exertion, < knees (Stap.) or arms. Repeated, DULL PRESSURE, as of a plug, or band. Dulled emotions, sense of hearing, sight, touch, etc. Paralysis. .................... BAD MEMORY; suddenly forgets names, etc. Brain- fag. As in a dream. Illusions, or fixed ideas; of duality, imagines others present, behind her, etc. Cowardly and neurotic. Vascillating; at odds with himself (Bar-c. Cann-i.); contradictory impulses. Ill-natured. Profane. Pressure in temples. Illusory smells. Bad breath and taste. Stiff, swelled tongue. Gastric pain > eating, but < again in 3 hours. Rectum feels plugged; can't evacuate even a soft stool. Breath stops on coughing or drinking. Cough with occipital pain; then yawns and sleeps. Double stitch at heart; passing into lumbar region. As of a heavy load on shoulders (Rhus-t.). Dry hands. Skin, insensible; itching, < scratching; yellow vesicles. Dermatitis. Eczema. Easily chilled, > sunshine (Stro.). Clammy sweat on palms.

Related: Ign. Rhus-t.

Region:

• Cellular tissue.

Terrible burning pains, with great prostration. Malignancy. Sepsis. Suppuration. Carbuncle. Abscess of septum. Quinsy. Succession of boils. (Arn. Sul.). Black or blue blisters. Gangrene. Hard cellulitis.

Related: Ars. Tarn-c.

Region:

• STOMACH.
• DIGESTIVE TRACT.
• MIND.
• SKIN.
• Changing sides.

Worse:

• COLD: BATHING. Dampness. WATER (on head).
• OVEREATING.
• Acids.
• Sweets.
• HEAT: SUMMER, of sun. Overheating. Radiated.

Gross feeders (Ab-c.), showing gastric, mental and skin symptoms. Lumpy stools, leucorrhœa, skin, nails, etc. Strange absence of pain. Cracks in canthi, nostrils, angles of mouth, etc. Gouty metastases (Abro.). .................... Fat, fretful, cross and peevish; cries if looked at, touched (Stram.) or washed. Loathing; of life, food, bathing etc. Ecstatic, dreamy, sentimental. Pustules in tarsi. Canthi red, raw, moist (ext.). Sore**, scabby nostrils.** Pimples about mouth (Ast-r.). TONGUE THICKLY COATED, LIKE WHITEWASH (Ars. Bis. Bry. Kali-m. Pho.). Aphthæ. No thirst. DISORDERED DIGESTION; food leaves an after-taste or causes belching. VOMITING < eating or drinking; without nausea (Chel.) or relief. Stomach is painful to pressure; gout of. Fulness in abdomen. Pappy or watery stool, mixed with lumps. Gastro- intestinal catarrh. Voice lacks control, > using it. Aphonia from overheating. Violent cough, each bout a little weaker. Horny or split nails; growths beneath. Shiny elbows. Gouty pains in fingers. Footsweat; wilts the skin. Callosities on soles. Eruptive tendency. Warts; horny. Sleepy and weary.

Related: Sul.

Region:

• MUCOUS MEMBRANES.
• Pneumogastric nerve: Bronchi. Lungs. Heart. CIRCULATION. Respiration.
• Stomach.
• Bowels.
• Sleep.
• Lumbar region.
• Skin.

Worse:

• WARM: Room. Wraps. Weather.
• Anger.
• Lying.
• Morning.
• Overeating.
• Cold.
• Dampness.

Better:

• Expectoration.
• Sitting erect.
• Motion.
• Vomiting.

Depression. LACKS REACTION. INCREASINGLY WEAK. DROWSY, SWEATY AND RELAXED. MUCH SECRETION OF MUCUS. Old people and children. Complaints arising in digestive sphere. .................... Icy finger-tips. Whines before attack, cough, etc. Crushing weight on chest. Won't be touched or looked at. Prostrated in mind and body. Stupid on awaking. Unwilling to be looked at or touched. Wants to be carried up-right. Mucus in tarsi. One eye closed. Upper lip drawn up. Tongue: thick white pasty coat; very red or red streaks; dry down middle. Flow of saliva. Craves apples. Vomits or expectorates with great effort. Abdomen feels full of stones. Expectoration: gluey; suppressed. Feet go to sleep on sitting down. Shocks on dropping to sleep. Asphyxia neonatorum. Apathy or easily annoyed; wants to be let alone. Peevish, whining and moaning. Clings to attendants. Consciousness wanes on closing eyes (Cann-i.). As of a lump in forehead. Sooty or flapping nostrils. Sickly, sunken**, pale, bluish or twitching face;** covered with cool sweat. Papillæ show through white coat on tongue. Tongue flabby, red in streaks. Craves acids, which disagree. Belchings, like bad eggs. NAUSEA; in waves; with weakness and cold sweat (Lob. Ver-a.), loathing or anxiety. Forcible vomiting; then exhaustion and sleep (Æth.). Violent retching. Sinking at stomach. Mucus or grass, green stools. Diarrhœa; of eruptive diseases. Unequal breathing. SUFFOCATIVE SHORTNESS OF BREATH; before cough or alternating with cough; a leaflet seems over trachea. LOOSE, COARSE, RATTLING COUGH; CHEST SEEMS FULL, YET LESS AND LESS IS RAISED; then vomiting or sleep (Æth.); < anger. Must sit up to breathe or cough. Coughs and yawns alternately. Thick expectoration. Capillary bronchitis or bronchitis. Pleuro-pneumonia. Paralytic depression of heart and lungs (Bar-c.). Violent (lumbar) backache; < lifting; motion excites retching and cold sweat. Restless arms. Dropsy of legs. Yawning; with many complaints. SOMNOLENCY; with all complaints, or from warmth. Torpid, cool, SWEATY SKIN. Delayed or receding, blue or pustular eruptions. Sycosis barbæ. Smallpox. Impetigo. Weak, quick pulse. Heat coming from heart. Burning sensation. Sticky sweat. Complementary: Bar-c.

Related: Am-c. Asclp. Ip. Lob. Op.

Region:

• CELLULAR TISSUE: EYES. FACE. FAUCES. OVARIES.
• SEROUS CAVITIES.
• SKIN.
• KIDNEYS.
• BLADDER.
• Nerves.
• Respiration.
• Heart.
• Blood.
• Right side; right to left.

Worse:

• HEAT: ROOM. Weather. Drinks. Fire. Bed. Hot bath (Op.).
• Touch, even of hair.
• After sleep.
• 4 P.M.
• Pressure.
• Suppressed eruptions.

Better:

• COOL: AIR. Bathing. Uncovering.
• Slight expectoration.
• Motion.

Stinging burning, prickling, smarting, like hot needles. Must lie down. Rapid onset. SUDDEN; SHRILL CRIES or pains, that extort cries; nervousness, swelling, effusion, etc. SENSITIVE; to pain. Sharp STINGING burning or bruised SORENESS; of brain, ABDOMEN, ovaries, bladder, etc. PUFFINESS, shiny redness. Œdema; of eyelids or lips; red; saccular. BURNING-itching. Infections. Inflammation. Stiffness. Numbness. .................... Childish. Irritable, excitable, jealous, fussy and fidgety or apathic. Foolishly suspicious. Nervous and awkward or absent-minded; drops things. SUDDEN, PIERCING SHRIEKS. Head pains; stabbing or as of a blow; < occiput. ROLLS THE HEAD. Numb, tired headache, > pressure. Painful hair. Musty head sweat. Cheeks hang down. Eyes puffy; conjunctiva or lids like water-bags; red; chemosed. Perforating corneal ulcer. Profuse hot tears. Photophobia; yet can't bear coverings. Squint. Blindness, > stool. Myosis. Face puffy or red, < about eyes; waxy pallor. Scarlatinal otitis. Red nose. Cold nose. Red mouth or tongue. Grinds teeth. Tongue: vesicles on edge; swelled; raw; as if burnt; sore. Sandy, glazed or translucent pharynx, > cold things. Œdema of uvula. Purpleness of throat. Meaty, red tonsils. Right tonsil, > cold drinks. Angina. Diphtheria; early prostration (Merc-cy.); dirty membrane. ADIPSIA; but thirst during chill. Ascites. Orange yellow or tomato-sauce stools; odorless; < motion. Anus sore, swelled; oozes blood or stands open (Pho.). Burning urination. Dysuria. Scant, foul urine; coffee-grounds sediment. Nephritis. Ovaries numb; tumor of r.; cystic. Amenorrhœa of puberty. Panting breathing; feels as if every breath would be his last. Air hunger. Larynx, drawn in. Thirstless and dropsical. Abdomen tight, as if to break, on straining at stool. Profuse urine, but drinks little. Ovaries congested, with suppressed menses. Heart, stitches backward from apex; beat shakes whole body. Hands and feet numb. Palms hot. Nails feel loose. Skin rosy red; sensitive; rough eruption on; sting-like spots on; pale. Large urticaria. Asthma from hives. Erysipelas. Scarlatina. Dry, hot skin, alternates with gushes of sweat. SLEEPY, but too nervous; when hot; and CRIES OUT. Kicks covers off. Weak, quick pulse. Chill: anticipates; with dyspnœa, urticaria, desire to uncover; alternates with heat; right side. BURNING HEAT; but chilly if moved; without thirst; at 4 P.M. Heat of one part, with coldness of another. Sweat in gushes; partial. Complementary: Arn. Bar-c. Merc-cy. Mat-m. Antidote: Carb-ac.

Related: Ars. Canth. Pul. Urt-ur.

Region:

• URINARY ORGANS.
• Heart.
• Digestive tract.
• Uterus.

Worse:

• COLD: Weather. Drinks.
• Uncovering.
• Lying.

Better:

• Warmth.

Weak and dropsical. Scanty discharges. Irritation. .................... Bewildered. Can't think. Faint. Thirst, but water distresses; vomits every drink. Uræmic vomiting. Sinking at epigastrium. Noisy, yellow, painless, gushing stools. Diarrhœa; with dropsy. Bed-wetting of old men. Enlarged prostate. Uterine hæmorrhage, then dropsy (Chin.). Oppression of chest. Rough, dry skin. Can't sweat. Sleepy. Pulse slow, fluttering, irregular or intermittent.

Related: Chin-ar. Nux-v.

Region:

• Respiration.
• Mucous membranes.

Worse:

• After a short nap.
• Drafts.

Better:

• Lying with head high.
• Sitting up.

Weak, relaxed and nauseated. Biliousness. .................... Sneezing, < drafts. Aphthæ. Pains from liver to r. scapula. Dyspnœa or violent cough after first sleep, > slight expectoration. Whistling breathing. Salty expectoration. Complementary: Lob.

Region:

• Nerves.
• Blood.
• Bones.
• Right side.

Worse:

• EXACT PERIODICITY.
• DAMPNESS: Cold. During rains. Bathing.

Better:

• Smoking.

Cold to very bones (Calc-c.); can't get warm. Every damp day chills. AS OF ENORMOUS ENLARGEMENT or numbness of parts; on waking. Hæmorrhage. Periostitis. .................... Nervous temperament. Violent pain in all upper teeth at once, on retiring. Enlarged spleen. Malaria. Complementary: Ced.

Region:

• NERVES.
• Cartilages, mucous membranes: LARYNX. Bones. Condyles. Joints. Genito-urinary.
• Left side; ovary.
• Testis (R).

Worse:

• USING VOICE.
• Mental strain.
• Noon.
• Cold damp.
• 3 to 5 A.M.

Better:

• Motion.
• Coffee.
• Wrapping up.

Slow, deep, low grade processes. THICKENED SECRETIONS, cartilages, tarsi, etc. Gray or tenacious mucus. Sore rawness. Increasingly violent pains, suddenly cease; < touch; with polyuria. Arthralgia. Loss of power; mental, over limbs, etc. Epilepsy, then rage. .................... Hasty; deceitful. Talkative and forgetful. Whirling vertigo. Emptiness or crawling in head. Itching canthi, eyelids or earlobes. Exhaustingly profuse coryza. Pale, sallow and weak. Sticky teeth (Lach.). Croaking in abdomen (l). Emissions. Chronic urethritis. Foul leucorrhœa. Easily raises gray, gelatinous or starchy mucus; < laughing. Hoarseness or aphonia, < using voice. Weakness in chest (l). Heart stops, then trembles and throbs; > inspiration. Swelled ankles. Diabetes. Nervous itching. Shocks on dropping to sleep.

Related: Sele. Stan. Zin.

Region:

• MIND.
• NERVES: Cerebro-spinal. ABDOMINAL.
• MUCOUS MEMBRANE: STOMACH. Bowels. Eyes. Throat. Urethra.
• Periosteum.
• Skin.
• Left side.

Worse:

• EMOTIONS: ANXIETY. Suspense.
• In room.
• Sugar.
• Shut in places.
• Lying on R side.
• Looking down.
• Drinking.
• Crowds.

Better:

• COOL: AIR; open. Bath.
• Hard pressure.
• Motion.

Old, dried up, tremulous and weak. Progressive emaciation. Paralysis, ascending. Parts seem ENLARGED or bound up (Glo.). VIOLENT PAINS; LIKE DEEPLY STICKING SPLINTERS; sharp shooting, like lightning; < down back or legs; cause starting; grinding or radiating. Sinking downward from head. Ulceration, with much yellow, bloody pus (Hep.). .................... Conjoined mental and digestive symptoms. Tormented by strange ideas or emotions. Nervous, impulsive and hurried, yet timid and anxious (Ars.). Fearsome. Dreads ordeals, impending evil, passing a certain point, dark (Stram.), etc. Incoherence. Faltering speech, gait, erections, etc. Nervous headache and nervous diarrhœa. Brain-fag. Head as if in a vise; > tight bandage. Vertigo; epileptic, < night. Compressive or deep head pains; loses his senses (Laur.). Boring in l. frontal eminence, 11-12 A.M. Migraine. Scaly tarsi. Eyeballs feel big (Guai.). Swelled carunculæ; chemosis. Photophobia. Violent purulent ophthalmia. Dilated pupils. Sickly, grayish, muddy color. Painful, red tip of tongue, or (dry) aphthæ on edge. Food lodges in pharynx. Throat sensitive; as of a rough stick (Phyt.) or splinter in, > cool drinks. Dark red fauces and uvula. Craves sugar, which <. Astringent sour or bitter-sour taste and vomitus. Alcoholic gastritis. Gastralgia; in a spot. Eructates ingesta. FLATULENCE; bursting (Lyc.); loud explosive belching (Coca.), discharged upward and downward; noisy diarrhœa. Emotional diarrhœa. Shreddy, mucus stools, turning green; < drinking. Violent pains from kidneys to bladder. Cutting in urethra, with painful priapism. Yellow, bloody gonorrhœa. Painful coition. Cough from laughing. Dyspnœa, nervous or flatulent; < gastric pains. Palpitation, < lying on r. side. Craves fresh air. Laryngitis. Throbbing or weak spine. Trembling limbs. Peripheral neuralgias. Ischias antica. Weakness, rigidity or twisting in calves. Ulcers, angry, deep; hard edges; warty granulations. Adherent crusts. Chill if uncovered, yet smothers when wrapped up. Shivers through bowels; up back. Complementary: Nat-m. Antidotes: Cina. Nat-m.

Related: Lyc. Pul.

Region:

• BLOOD.
• BLOOD-VESSELS.
• Nerves.
• Muscles.
• Digestive organs.

Worse:

• INJURIES: BRUISES. Shocks. Jarring. Labor. Overexertion. Sprains.
• TOUCH.
• After sleep.
• Motion.
• Old age.
• Alcohol.

Better:

• Lying: Head low (Ver-v.). Outstretched.

A very painful and offensive remedy. Progressive weakness. Has absorbent action. Shock: mental or physical. VERY PAINFUL BRUISED, SORENESS; all over; after the pains; of the bleeding part (Fer.), etc. Crushing pain. BED FEELS HARD, or full of lumps. As of a lump back of stomach, etc. Suddenly shifting joint (Colch.) or paralytic pains. FOUL; breath, taste, flatus, stool, etc. Typhoid. Sepsis. HÆMORRHAGIC TENDENCY; epistaxis, etc. Involuntary evacuations. .................... Nervous, sanguine temperament. FEARS; being struck or approached; sickness; instant death; on awaking, etc. Morose, repellant mood. Physically restless, but mentally prostrate or apathetic; says nothing ails him (Op.); reverse (Ars.) answers slowly, with an effort. Feels well, in dangerous cases. Brain feels tired. Vertigo; of old age. Bloodshot eyes. Ruddy, congested face. Apoplexy. Fevers. Bright red, puffy fauces. Red stripe down center of tongue. Post-natal dropping. Catarrh of antrum. Eructations tasting of bad eggs. Anorexia by day, but canine hunger before midnight. Cramps from epigastrium down over bowels, then foul stools. Acrid, foamy, stools. Cutting in kidneys. Urine retained or dribbles; after labor. Must wait for urine to pass. After-pains; < suckling. Hoarseness; < exertion, colds, or getting wet. Coughs without waking, or cough causing cries. Heavy lower chest. Sore nipples. Arm pains, > hanging down. Heart-beat shakes whole body. Weakened heart muscle. Angina. Heart pains; left to right. Dusky, mottled skin. Every little hurt makes a black and blue spot. Petechiæ. Erysipelas. Symmetrical eruptions. Very sore acne or crops of small boils. Sopor; drops to sleep as he answers. Troublous or frightful dreams; awakes in terror. Coldness of part lain on. Thirst during chill. Hot head with cool body. Must uncover, but it chills him (reverse of Nux-v.). Complementary: Calc-c. Nat-s. Sul-ac.

Related: Bells. Echi. Hyper. Rhus-t.

Region:

• MUCOUS MEMBRANES.
• MIND.
• RESPIRATION.
• Lungs; R apex.
• Blood.
• Heart.
• Nerves.
• SPLEEN.
• Lymphatics.
• Muscles.
• SKIN.
• Serous cavities.
• Organs.

Worse:

• COLD: ICES, DRINKS. FOODS. Air.
• PERIODICALLY: MIDNIGHT; after. AFTER 2 A.M. 14 days. Yearly.
• VEGETABLES.
• DRINKING.
• TIPPLING.
• Infections.
• Bad meat.
• Eruptions: Undeveloped. Suppressed.
• Quinine.
• Lying on part.
• Tobacco.
• EXERTION.

Better:

• HOT: APPLICATIONS (dry). FOOD. Drinks. Wraps.
• Motion.
• Walking about.
• ELEVATING HEAD.
• Sitting erect.
• Company.
• Sweating.

Sudden, intense effects. Restless, anxious and very weak. Maddening pains; BURNING LIKE FIRE, hot neddles or wires, > heat, felt, even during sleep; exciting shortness of breath (Nat- s.) or chilliness. Inveterate neuralgias. Multiple neuritis. VERY RESTLESS, < affected part. Increasingly irritable (Cimi.) or SUDDEN GREAT WEAKNESS, from trivial causes. Rapid emaciation. ACRID, SCANTY, THIN SECRETIONS; coryza, saliva, sweat, etc. PUTRID, CADAVERIC ODORS. Destructive processes. Malignancy. Sepsis. Low vitality. Pale, puffy, baggy SWELLING. Dropsy. Anæmia. .................... Anxious. Oversensitive. Fastidious. EXACTING. Fault-finding. ANGUISH; despairs of recovery (Aco.). AGONIZING FEAR OF DEATH; nightly; yet tired of living. VIOLENCE; self-torture; pulls her hair; bites her nails. Suicidal impulses. Restless and suspicious. Congestion to head, > cold, but neuralgia, > heat. Pain alternates between head and stomach or body. Pain over l. eye. Restless head. Early grayness. Falling hair. Spasm of eyelids. Burning tears. Scrophulous ophthalmia. Takes colds. Nose colds descend to chest. Cold sores; in nose. Sneezing, with biting, watery coryza; but stopped nose. Hay fever. Sensitive smell; loathes odor, sight or thought of food. PALE, anxious, sunken, haggard or distorted countenance; with cold sweat. Black lips. Bluish white tongue. Nightly toothache. INSATIABLE BURNING THIRST; CRAVES ICE COLD WATER, BUT IT DISTRESSES STOMACH (Nux-v.) AND IS VOMITED AT ONCE; with anorexia; during heat. DRINKS LITTLE AND OFTEN. Gastritis. Swelled spleen. Vomiting, with purging, from ptomaine poisoning. Foul, rice water or small, acrid, burning, black, mucous or lienteric stools; < cold drinks. Scanty urine. Uræmia (Pip-m.). Profuse acrid leucorrhœa. As of a vapor in larynx. SHORT BREATH; felt in nose; must sit up; < odors, receding eruptions or ascending. Whistling inspiration. Wheezing breathing. Cough alternately dry and loose; must sit up. Frothy expectoration. Acute pain through upper third of r. lung. Asthma. Pulmonary œdema. Cough; dry, nightly; < drinking. Heart; weak; trembles; palpitates; < slight causes. Stiffness, ascends from coccyx to nape. Alternate internal and skin symptoms. SKIN; LOOKS SEARED; dry, rough, dirty or shrivelled (Op.). Free desquamation. Eczema. Acuminate eruptions. Hives after eating fish. Ulcerative tendency; chronic; with burning. Phagedena. Gangrene. Shocks on dropping to sleep. Restless sleep. Dreams of death. COLD, externally, with internal, burning heat; in spots; sensitive to, yet > in open air (Aur.). Chills; irregular; shaking; craves hot drinks; and can't get his breath. Heat, as of hot water in veins or they burn like lines of fire; burning or coldness in chest (Bry. Lach. Nat-m. Sul.). Hectic. Sweat; with insatiable thirst, dyspnœa or exhaustion; cold. Atypical or larval malaria. Old case of malarias. Waves of icy coldness in blood-vessels or intense boiling heat. Yellow fever (prophylactic). Complementary: Nat-s. Pul. Thu.

Related: Sul-ac. Ver-a.

Region:

• MUCOUS MEMBRANES: NOSE. Digestive tract. Lungs.
• Heart.
• Glands.
• Skin.
• Left side.
• Nerves.

Worse:

• Weather: Dry. Cold. Windy. Foggy.
• Exertion.
• In room.
• Apples.
• Tobacco smoke.

Better:

• Open air.

Erethistic weakness. BURNING. Profuse, acrid discharges; thin in acute, or thick, gluey, yellow (Hyds.) in chronic affections. Rawness. Scrofula. Consumptiveness (Tub.). Heaviness. Debility. .................... Dull, heavy headache, < occiput. Eyeballs feel heavy. Foul otorrhœa. Persistent, but unsatisfactory sneezing. Nose drips water; hot (Iod.); green; acrid; reddens upper lip (Merc.). Coryza; with dyspnœa (Nit-ac.), post-nasal catarrh. Hay fever. Colds, with hunger. Aching malar bones. Raw throat. Hoarseness. Goitre. Air hunger. Short of breath. Hacking cough. Yellow-green, foul expectoration. Asthma of phthisical or psoric persons. Beginning resolution (Sul-io.). Burning heat in chest. Tubercular pleurisy. Weak heart; with erethism. Dry, harsh or dusky skin. Psoriasis. Ichthyosis. Rapid, irritable pulse. Chilly. Night- sweats. Complementary: Kali-io.

Related: Kali-bi.

Region:

• Mucous membranes: Mouth. THROAT. Larynx.
• Kidneys.
• Brain.
• Blood.
• Skin.

Worse:

• Over use of voice: TALKING. Singing.
• Cold, wet winds.
• Heat.

Irritation. PAINFULLY SORE, RAW AND BURNING PARTS. ACRID DISCHARGES. .................... Excessively cross and stubborn (Tub.). NERVOUS; CHILD PERSISTENTLY BORES INTO NOSE or picks at lips, the fingers or at one spot; until it is sore or bleeds. Acrid, fluent coryza. Raw, cracked lips (angles) (Psor.). Painfully raw, sore, inflamed mouth. Aphthæ. Raw sore throat; painful on clearing or coughing, yet grasps or wants to scratch it. Hay asthma. Stools like corn-meal. Uræmia. Voice hoarse, squeaky or breaks. Itching fingers and toes. Eruptions leave a brilliant red stain. Pemphigus. Impetigo contagiosa. Complementary: Nit-ac.

Related: Ars. Merc-c.

Region:

• NERVES.
• Mind.
• Gullet.
• Digestive tract.
• Periosteum: Ears. Nose. Tibia.
• Left side.

Worse:

• Night.
• In room.
• Rest.
• Eating.
• Suppression.
• Mercury.
• Noise.
• Sitting.
• Warm wraps.

Better:

• Motion in open air.
• Pressure.

Full, stout aspect, but intolerably nervous and OVERSENSITIVE. Fits of violent, hard throbbing, pressure, sharp sticking, etc. Clavus. Easy relapses. Bone aches. Pains extend outward, are associated with numbness and change place or are > by touch. Boring. Blueness. Foul, thin acrid secretions. .................... Magnifies her symptoms. Craves sympathy. Fickleness. Fainting. Hysteria. Clutches throat. Occipital ache > stool. Eyelids stick to ball. Numb about eyes. Ozœna. Puffy, purple face, as if heated. Greasy taste. Everything presses toward throat. Globus. Spasm of gullet and stomach. Rancid or explosive belching. Regurgitations. Flatulence; sudden; pushing upward, hysterical. Wind colic. Reverse peristalsis. Bowels seem knotted. Foul, dark watery diarrhœa. Spasmodic tightness of chest. Heart seems full, distended. Reflex heart symptoms, of nervous origin. Dark red swelling. Eruption of air vesicles. Bluish ulcers; with high sensitive edges. Foul, burrowing pus. Caries.

Related: Aur. Lach. Sumb. Val.

Region:

• NERVES.
• Mucous membranes.
• Female organs.

Worse:

• PENETRATING SOUNDS.
• Dry.
• Cold.
• Emotions.

Better:

• Cold bathing; of face (Flu-ac.).

EXCESSIVE NERVOUS SENSIBILITY; scratching on silk, rattle of paper, etc., is unbearable. Contractive sensations. .................... Lightness, as if floating. Painfully sensitive hearing. Cold saliva. Violent vomiting. Gelatinous or shreddy mucus stools. Lientery. Asthmatic breathing, < odors or cold. Violent backache, takes her breath, < motion.

Related: Arg-n. Castor. Ther.

Region:

• SECRETIONS: SKIN. Serous. Mucous.
• Chest (R).
• Muscles.

Worse:

• Motion.
• Deep breathing.
• Lying.
• Tobacco.

Colliquative states (Agar.). SWEATINGS; in pleuro-pneumonia, diarrhœa or rheumatism. Body numb. .................... Sticky, yellow nasal discharge. Tough, yellow coat on tongue. Stools smell like rotten eggs, or burn like fire. Dysentery. Flabby genitals. Short of breath and weak on walking. Chest pains, < lying or breathing. Pleurodynia. Pericardial effusion. Pleurisy.

Related: Ant-t.

(Cancer Fluviatilis)

Region:

• Liver.
• Glands.
• Vaso-motors.

Worse:

• Air.
• Uncovering.

Stinging pains. Shiverings. .................... Cough, > walking. URTICARIA; with hepatic symptoms, jaundice, etc.; with cramps in liver region; on right side only.

Related: Calc-c. Rhus-t.

Region:

• Circulation.
• Nerves.
• Female organs.
• Rectum.
• Left side.

Worse:

• Heat.
• Menses.
• Contradiction.
• Cold wet.

Pulsations; in head, womb, chest, etc. Drawn back feeling in eyes, nipples, etc. Cancer. .................... Mentally and physically flabby. Weeps from least emotion. Rushes of blood to head; it feels surrounded by hot air. Red face. Pimples about mouth. Stools of brown, gushing water. Sexual erethism.

Related: Murex. Sep.

Region:

• MIND.
• Nerves.
• VASCULAR SYSTEM.
• Heart (R).
• Bones: NASAL. Skull. Patellæ. Joints.
• Glands.
• Liver.
• Kidneys.

Worse:

• Emotions: Depressing. Disordered affections.
• Mental exertion.
• Cold.
• Night: Sunset to sunrise.
• Abuse of Merc. or Kali-iod.
• Cloudy weather.

Better:

• Cool; open air.
• Cold bathing.
• Becoming warm.
• Music.
• Walking.

Vaso-motor mobility; erratic ebullitions and venous congestion, more to head and chest. Vascularity. Weak, yet sensitive to pain. Pains wander, impel motion, finally attack heart (Benz-ac. Colch.); boring, cutting osteocopic. Indurations; glandular. Sclerosis; coronary. Necrosis. Chronicity. Mercurio-syphilitic dyscrasia. Extremely violent symptoms. Heart feels loose on walking. As of air blowing on part. .................... Intense, hopeless depression and suicidal anguish. Brooding melancholy; alternating with irritability or moroseness. Praying and self-reproaches; starting from heart. Weak memory. Vexed mood; enraged by least contradiction. Loquacity. Rapid questioning. Fears the least noise. Violent confusing headache; syphilitic. Hemiopia upper horizontal. Sore orbits. Congested, bluish-red face. Pains in zygomæ. Red knobby nose. Ozœna. Foul breath. Bulimy. Soreness over liver. Hepatitis. Ascites. Jaundice, of pregnancy. Liver, with heart symptoms. Chronic orchitis. Crushing weight under sternum < ascending. Dyspnœa; < laughing. Oppression at heart; as if to stop, then gives one hard thump. Violent palpitation; at puberty. Cardiac hypertrophy. Angina pectoris. Aortic disease. As if lower spine bulged backward. Pott's disease. Nightly leg pains. Painfully sensitive to cold. Sweat about genitals. Cold and damp all over.

Related: Merc.